The Bahamas is an island country whose primary language is English with influences from British English. Tourism is a major part of the Bahamian economy, with many visitors attracted to the seafood cuisine and Junkanoo music tradition. The Bahamas has a highly literate population and low unemployment rate compared to other countries, maintaining strong economic ties with trade partners like the United States and United Kingdom.

1. Bahamas
By: Jake and Adam

2. Languages
• Majority of people in the Bahamas speak English. They
speak the rules of British English. For example in regular
English they say hello, but in British English they say
cheerio.
British English English
Cheerio= Hello
Cheers= Thank you
Loo= Bathroom
Chips= fries

3. How does British English affect the
culture if the United States
• Their language influences the culture of the
United States, because when tourist come
down their to visit and they could want
something like their luggage, and down their
instead of the word luggage they use baggage,
or instead of garbage they use bin

4. Foods
• In the Bahamas Seafood is very popular, some
popular dishes are crab cakes, fish sandwich,
and pan fried walleye. Some popular desserts
are Johnny cakes or Dulce de Leche. Many
Americans love seafood especially Walleye,
Walleye is a very popular dish as you read
many Bahamians like it.

5. Music
• Some popular music in the Bahamas is Hip Hop and
Rap, most of the kids listen to that. Some rappers
names are C.O Sparks, and Shotta Boyz Bliss. Also
another popular music there is Junkanoo. Junkanoo
was started with the Indians and that style is very
liked in the Bahamas.

6. Economic Aspect
• The Bahamas has many resources, some are salt,
timber, and fish. The tourism in the Bahamas is very
popular. 48% of the Bahamas income comes from
the tourism, one big tourism place is the Atlantis.
Some of the people that import from the Bahamas
are the U.S and the UK. The U.S imports a lot of
stuff from the Bahamas so if anything happened to
the Bahamas that would impact the U.S greatly

7. Current Standard
• The Literacy here is very high, it is 95.5%. The life
expectancy is about like any other country at 73
years. Very little people that live in the Bahamas are
poor. Finally the unemployment rate for the
Bahamas is very low compared to other countries it
stands at 7.6% of their population. In the U.S the
unemployment rate is 8.2% another fairly low one.
So this impacts the U.S a lot, because if tourist came
here most people would know how to read and it
would be that hard as it is for tourist that go to
countries that don’t know how to read.

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