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The Gullah Geechee Socialization

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Throughout the world there are many different cultures and just one aspect that gives culture its uniqueness is the dialect or language. Language is composed of many different symbols that everyone in a given culture understands, they have a universal meaning. Just because one culture has a symbol for understanding something, doesn 't mean that another culture will share that same meaning. Language for many cultures is what generated that culture, and what made it distinctly different from the others around it. Language can be in a form of art, music, or simply dialect. This is present in the Gullah Geechee socialization, on the North American coasts. The Gullah Geechee people of the southern coast span from Jacksonville, North Carolina …show more content…

They all came from countries in Africa where rice was grown and they were really good at growing it. Many different African cultures were brought together on each of the rice plantations. Due to the fact that many of these folks came from different parts of Africa, they had to find a way to communicate with each other to get the daily duties done. This is where the pidgin language that was formed in Africa came to use. Pidgin was used in Africa for trade and commercialization between countries of different languages. So it makes sense that the African slaves that were working in the rice fields would communicate using the language that they all know, which is now called Gullah. Many of their duties included planting, hoeing, ditching, pounding, plowing, basket making, picking and, thrashing. This caused a culture and language blend that formed the Gullah that is still present today. The Gullah have a very different culture than the people around them. They 're way of language through music and art are important ways at which they maintain and pass on the Gullah culture from one generation to …show more content…

The Gullah people are fighting so hard to keep their culture and language, because without it their culture would be extinct. Culture and language are dialectical and without one the other will be lost. Their culture is constantly shaping the language that they speak and without the language their basis for their culture wouldn 't be there. Their language is a part of their history. It is how they communicated when captured in cells, it is how they survived and thrived being brought to a foreign place. Their music and art are ways that they express themselves and their cultural idea, without a language to express their history there would be no culture left. The Gullah has shown to be strong

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