2. • Some famous phrases are:
• Camolly: lump, or bruise
• Jack: friend
• Sip sip or tote news: gossip
• Spilligate: to go out on the town
This influences culture here because people
tend to make up words based on other words.
3. Popular food
• Bahamian stew fish is a specialty, made with
celery, onions, tomatoes, spices and fish.
It influences culture in the US
because it inspires people to
create new dishes.
4. Music
• This is a sample of Caribbean music:
Click the speaker:
It influences culture here because our music
usually comes from music that is played in
other countries.
5. Economic Aspect
• Resources:
• Salt It influences culture in the US
• Aragonite because we use some of the
• Timber resources/exports/imports that
• Tourism: Bahamians use, and we go to
the tourism spots.
• Beaches
• Aquariums
• Nature/Wildlife areas
• Exports/Imports
• $674 million: Mineral products and salt, animal
products, rum, chemicals, fruit and vegetables.$2.4
billion: Machinery and transport equipment,
manufactures, chemicals, mineral fuels; food and live
animals.
6. Standard of Living
• Literacy Rate:
• 95.6%
• Life Expectancy: It influences us because the Bahamas also
• has some unemployment, and its
70.8%
government is currently in bad shape.
• Poverty:
• 9.3%
• Health:
• People get sick from eating raw food, or food that isn’t washed.
• The probability of dying under 5 years is 12 out of every 1000 births.
This is usually caused by a deadly disease such as malaria.
• Health care issues:
• Many diseases such as hepatitis A and B, Typhoid
• Unemployment:
• 7.6%
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