Patois naturally Christianity is also ubiquitous in these parts though religions like Voodoo are also common in countries like Haiti having originated in West Africa now I realize I probably oversimplified the history way too much but I also wanted to make sure we had time to talk about other stuff seriously if I were to cover the complete history of the Caribbean we'd be here all day all these nations have ever are all pretty small and close together resulting in many different international collaborative efforts such as CARICOM and the organization of Eastern Caribbean states whose fully independent member states plus Anguilla all use a single currency the East Caribbean dollar CARICOM or the Caribbean community is an organization made up of NUMBER_TOKEN member states five non independent associate states and eight observer states including the u.s. territory of Puerto Rico though interestingly not the u.s. itself the organization is based in Georgetown Guyana and was established in NUMBER_TOKEN with the goal of inter member cooperation and economic integration the treaty was signed on the NUMBER_TOKENth of July NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN and as a results the fourth of July is celebrated as CARICOM day let's now talk about the organization of Eastern Caribbean states or Oh X based on the st. Lucian capital of castries the OECS has similar responsibilities to CARICOM serving as a political and economic union between its seven members and four associates advocating human rights better governments and disaster relief because as anyone who lives in the western Atlantic knows this area is very much prone to hurricanes and as a result these nations often need to bear the brunt of these disasters though not Barbados but that's probably just because they did that so that was kind of an admittedly abridged overview of what the Caribbean is like at least in terms of history culture and politics if you want more information about the region geography now has in good videos for you to watch when you think about it this region is actually kind of the opposite of Central Asia in a lot of ways mainly in that it's a group of tropical islands all clustered together in a small space and there are NUMBER_TOKEN different territories to talk about as opposed to the five I covered in the Central Asia video thanks as always for watching this topic has actually been requested quite a bit so I'm glad to have finally gotten the chance to make it as always you can support the channel by liking and sharing this video or even by supporting me on patreon like these awesome folks here and be sure to subscribe to learn something new every Sunday
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