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    Cultural Imposition

    Members: Princess Hunter, Renuka Muniram, Raquel London, Coco Williams,


    Marcella Mattos, Keron Chowtie and Anirudh Tewari
    Good afternoon colleagues, today my group members Renuka Muniram,
    Raquel London, Coco Williams, Princess Hunter, Marcella Mattos and Anirudh
    Tewari will be presenting. Our group has been assigned to cover the impact of the
    Europeans on the indigenous people, in the cultural imposition aspect. Keron
    Chowtie is also a member of our group but has been excluded from this
    presentation since he has already contributed in the Cacique’s part of the
    assignment.
    Cultural imposition is best defined as when anything is pushed on someone
    or something without their agreement, or when someone or something tends to
    force their beliefs and ways of behaving on other people.
    Fueled by a belief in the superiority of their own way of life, colonizers used law,
    education, and military force to impose various aspects of their own culture onto
    the target population. Motivated, in part, by a desire to purge local populations of
    allegedly barbaric, uncivilized customs and mores, colonizers also knew that the
    best way to reduce resistance by the colonized was to eradicate as far as possible
    all traces of their former way of life.
    Impacts:
     Genocide – the indigenous populations were decreased so considerably
    under Spanish rule that only minority groups existed throughout the
    Caribbean region. It is estimated that as many as hundreds of thousands to
    millions of Indigenous people were killed by the Spanish.
     Family systems were broken up – Adult males were removed from place to
    place by the Spaniards. Many Taino and Kalinago males were also killed in
    wards with the Spaniards.
     Indigenous Agricultural systems were destroyed – the production of crops
    by Indigenous peoples was affected. The Spanish brought animals such as
    cattle, horses, sheep and goats, which trampled the fields. These animals
    were often placed to graze on the agricultural fields of the indigenous
    people.
     Infanticide was carried out – Many parents preferred to kill their babies
    because they did not want them to grow up under such conditions, under
    Spanish (and European general) colonization.
     Changes in the indigenous religious practices due to the forced conversion
    to Christianity - Columbus forced the Natives to convert to Christianity and
    begin practicing this new religion against their desires. Who’s to say that
    the Natives wanted to practice Catholicism? In order to advance is personal
    gains, Columbus disregarded the interest of the Natives and forced them to
    practice a foreign religion. The idea that Columbus did the Natives a favour
    by bringing religion to them is what pro-Columbus advocates use to
    continue the praise of his actions.
     Introduction of new diseases – the natives could not survive, as this was
    new and their bodies were not prepared to deal with these types of
    diseases.
     Laws that violated their culture – the invaders had customs and wanted to
    implement them in the natives, who, with their traditions did not want to.
    So they used force and aggression to impose their culture, which they
    thought was the right thing to do.
     Land loss – the invaders arrived in this new land, which they thought they
    were uninhabited, and began to “conquer” various lands that already
    owned, and that was belonged to the natives.
    In addition, Taino women were sexually exploited, forced labour or systems of
    enslavement were introduced, and indigenous peoples lost their land and their
    sovereignty.
    In summary, cultural imposition by the Europeans, lead to a breakdown of
    indigenous culture as the Tainos and Kaliangos had to conform to European way
    of life.

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