Top 10 Amazing Facts About Jamaica
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1 Fame of Jamaica if you had to choose just a handful of famous names to represent your nation would you include the athlete known for his incredible speed maybe the freedom fighting musician that favored peace happiness and marijuana how about the boombastic reggae fusion singer Usain Bolt Bob Marley and Shaggy aside there are many notable names that hail from Jamaica including proponent of the pan-africanism movement Marcus Garvey folklorist and writer Louise Bennett Cove early or miss Lu one of the top five fastest female sprinters Shelley and Fraser Price and retired Basketball Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing and who can overlook football stars like Rolando errands and Raheem Sterling for those seeking a taste of some Jamaican youtubers be sure to check out the soccer centric Xavier Nathaniel young boys and a commenter tainment.
2 Cuisine of Jamaica when a country's local cuisine has been influenced by a mess of different cultures you're often left with a crazy selection of different foods that somehow all fuse together nicely that's Jamaican cuisine in a nutshell as you can go from enjoying something as spiced as curry seasoned goat to sweeter tropical fruits like jackfruit early Spanish settlement introduced dishes like escovitch fish before chinese influence crept in and introduced more Asian flavors some common cuisines to Jamaica include ackee and saltfish jerk chicken and corn beef you may also come across Jamaican patties made from beef chicken or salt fish rundown or a salt mackerel in coconut milk or cream or a selection of bread and pastries like greater cake spice bun and bulla cakes.
3 Jamaican Patois walk along Jamaica no it's not some delicious brench dessert that's why is actually the local dialect heard throughout Jamaica also known locally as Jamaican Creole everything it also don't look out for everything everything not bad nothing ever sleep on derived from English patois bears heavy influence from West Africa especially from African slaves that were brought to Jamaica during the 17th century though you recognize some standard English words in patois the language is vastly different featuring only 21 phonemes compared to English is 44 and between nine and sixteen different vowel sounds also unlike English patois doesn't offer the benefit of tense indicators like edy instead using invariant particles like Ian and a which are unable to stand on their own while much apat swap vocabulary is african and origin and some is pulled from english small portions were borrowed from Spanish Hindi Arabic and Portuguese vocabulary as well as Irish and Scottish dialects picking one bie.
4 Ahead of its time for an island tucked in the midst of the Caribbean it's quite an innovator and not just regionally to the Caribbean either though some countries have been enjoying the benefits of a public railway transportation system for quite some time in 1845 the British colony of Jamaica built the railways of Jamaica marking the first line opened outside of Europe and North America along with some of the other first that Jamaica achieved it was the first country in the Caribbean to gain its independence launched its own website monitor literacy and most importantly become featured on snapchat it's also believed the Jamaica had running water and electricity before many cities in the United States and had a series of phone lines so sophisticated that AT&T copied it for their own American set up.
5 Religion of Jamaica outside of Vatican City Jamaica is known for having the most churches per square mile typically averaging about 2.75 religious establishments to cater to the majority of Protestant and Roman Catholic Christians the country is comprised of approximately 64 percent Christian followers and while that far surpasses the 29,000 plus Rastafarians Arion ism is the largest indigenous religion to Jamaica hidden beneath all of this religious faith however is the history of obeah a form of alleged sorcery and witchcraft initially developed by West African slaves phobia spread to Jamaica during the 18th century and wasn't really frowned upon until tackies war during which an obeah man or obeah witch doctor was caught providing the rebels with information obeah was made illegal and anyone caught practicing it would be jailed or flogged although the archaic laws that limited practice of the Voodoo like religion were since repealed in 2013.
6 Port Royal depicted in the Pirates of the Caribbean series as a riot is insanely lawless place for the Caribbeans undesirables to converge Port Royal was well exactly that nicknamed the most wicked and sinful city in the world Port Royal was once a way station for pirates and the largest city in the Caribbean though it survived years of piracy even serving as a place of execution for the brigands it proved no match for mother nature in June of 1692 after the city had experienced a growth in population and construction and earthquake collapsed much of the northern section a second destructive earthquake in January of 1907 demolished much of the rebuilt city liquefying more of the unstable sand Port Royal stands today as a redeveloped tourist attraction complete with 17th century elements of a once bustling port.
7 Prehistoric people of Jamaica before pirates and slaves inhabited the lands of this Caribbean tropical beauty Jamaica was hoped to a series of indigenous colonies dating as far back as 4000 BC long before the era wagon people were known to inhabit the Caribbean island Jamaica was occupied by the cave-dwelling Guanajuato Bay the guano hada Bay or Chobani where a Caribbean tribe believed to have stemmed from the Taino people and were inhabitants of Western Cuba at around 300 AD Jamaica saw the arrival of a second group of prehistoric people the solenoid or igneous later found to be an early wave of the era wagon from South America the salad oil on a skill for ceramics by 650 ad the Taino traveled from Venezuela to Jamaica and absorbed and insulin the salad died before eventually assimilating into Arawak and culture themselves.
8 Jamaica in sports we briefly mentioned Jamaica's claim to athletic Fame Usain Bolt but there's more to the country's athletics than the award winning sprinter many sports make up Jamaica's most popular but among them you'll likely hear most about track and field football cricket and in most recent years basketball as eight time Olympic gold medalist bold proved the country is serious about it sprinting but the Jamaican national football team has also proven to be a prolific team of athletes in 1991 1998 2005 2008 and 2010 Jamaica's football team won the Caribbean Cup also in 1998 they reigned over Japan in that year's FIFA World Cup a bit more successful than its football team is the national cricket team which has pulled ahead in 10 regional four-day competitions and seven WCB cups maybe more surprising that all of this is the Jamaican bobsled team which competed in the 1988 1990 to 1994 1998 2002 and 2014 Winter Olympics just trying to be the best that can be so am i and the best I can be is Jamaican.
9 Jamaican World Records as mentioned previously Jamaica takes it sprinting seriously which is why it currently holds the men's record for the 100 150 and 200 meter dashes of course that record goes to Usain Bolt but he's far from the only impressive Jamaican out there in fact local Christopher Taylor took the 400 meter dash record for the under-18 boys age group beating out 15 year old karate James's prior record by 0.01 seconds beyond sports Jamaicans also hold the record for the most books donated to charity in a week with over 65 thousand seven hundred books in September of 2016 Isaiah Triforce Johnson broke the record for most wins against tetra bot in tetris ultimate in a 24 hour time period earning 614 wins.
10 Jamaican independence on August 6 of each year Jamaica celebrates its own independence day but an independence from whom you ask prior to becoming its own sovereign state after a series of rebellions and the formation of the local political parties of the people's National Party and Jamaica Labour Party the island was colonized by the British actually the Spanish Empire took it first from the indigenous people but after a hundred and forty six years of Spanish rule the British were sure to snatch it and add it to its collection of colonies ultimately Jamaica owes independence partially to World War two which created the decolonization movement in 1962 the Jamaica independence Act was passed by the United Kingdom though it remained within the Commonwealth.
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