Essay On Haiti American Culture

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According to Merrian Webster Dictionary, culture is a way of life and how we look at things (1828). It is easy to say that in this world divided by so many countries, it would be obvious that our cultures are different. From an American point of view, one of our neighboring countries that culture may seem so taboo to us is Haiti. Different is different but not like Haiti. From what they eat and how they work, makes up the cultural difference that we as Americans may seem as different. According to Lawless, Girault, Ferguson, and Macleod (2018), Haiti means “Land of high mountains.” Haiti is about the size of Maryland and is the second largest island in the Caribbean (Lawless et al., 2018). Haiti is made up of mostly mountain ranges which stretch through the island including lots of dense forest (Lawless et al., 2018). All the land is inhabited with small groups of people who farm for a living (Lawless et al., 2018). They have an abundance of natural harbors in which fishing is a primary resource of income on the island, much more than farming. Although Haiti is a beautiful country in sight, the infrastructure of the country is failing due all the earthquakes since the early 2000’s (Lawless et al., …show more content…

Haiti has one of the worst weather conditions on this side of the hemisphere, because it sits along the hurricane belt (Crawford-Adiletta, n.d.). Also, because Haiti does not have many trees, the more rainfall they get the more severe a flashflood or mudslide will happen (Crawford-Adiletta, n.d.). Temperatures range from 70 to 80 degrees year-round but raising to 100 degrees on a hot day and dropping to 60 degrees on a cold day (Crawford-Adiletta, n.d.). Dry season for the country is normally in January which is when farmers usually prepare for the upcoming farming seasons (Crawford-Adiletta,