The Importance Of Tradition In Belizean Society

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the humans and all they that they did but after they chased them out and became their own masters they adapted all the same customs that the humans had had. We rejected Europe's influence because we gained independence but we welcomed it from the US.
Most, if not all, of the ethnic groups in Belize abandoned their customs, traditions and blindly followed anything western.
Today the Mayas are the only ethnic group left in Belize that live almost exactly as they did fifty years ago, perhaps more. The Garifuna, also, hold strong to their culture and traditions but they do not use their traditional dress and today less and less young Garifunas are interested in inheriting all these traditions and value that their parents before them held sacred. The Creoles and the Mestizo, although there are still some customs that they hold on to, are most affected by western influence. We eat western, sleep western and think western. We import most of our products from the US and will probably ...

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