Everyone loves the beaches in the Caribbean, and they're only a flight away. What we tend to take advantage of though is the hard work put into preserving, maintaining, and caring for these beaches. You would think that Caribbean Americans go back home to a wealthy and prosperous country, but that isn't true. Tourism rates are high, but it's a seasonal industry, and Caribbean Americans do not prosper from this as much as you'd probably think they did. Why, you're probably thinking? Well, many of the companies that own the hotels, cruise ships, and airplanes are foreign, meaning that most of the money does not actually come in to the Caribbean people, but it goes out to these foreign companies.I guess it's a good thing that they have their culture going for them during the dry season, which is virtually all the time (seeing as how they do not prosper from the Tourism industry). It is important to understand the people to sympathize for them. They value more important things than we Americans do, and they get my credit for that. For example, music and dancing have been their important, personal forms of release since the time of slavery. Today, these aspects of the Caribbean culture is so important, we even see it in hotels, in which many people offer dances at night for the guests. (Anyone who's been to the Caribbean know this already) Reggae has taken America by storm, but remember where it's from!
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