Thursday, 14 October 2010

Become a Bahama Mama

If you are looking for quiet peace of the Bahamas, is the right choice for you. The majority of the population of the Bahamas is about 85% black and the next largest population group are whites at 12%. Other minorities are Hispanics and Asians 3%. Many whites are in Harbour Iceland, Bahamas, Abaco Iceland, Spanish Wells, Harbour Iceland, Montagu Bay on Long Island and the District of New Providence concentrated. There is also a significant number of expatriates from Europe and noncitizen whitethe United States.

The Commonwealth of The Bahamas is an independent nation in the English-speaking Caribbean. An archipelago of 700 islands and islets (small islands), is in the Bahamas in the Atlantic, the United States and east of Florida, north of Cuba and the Caribbean, and northwest of the British dependency of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Documented Bahamian history begins with the words, "Baja Mar", the Spanish name for the islands. ThisTerm is misleading, however, means "shallow sea", but the islands are really high levels, which originated from the Atlantic hundreds of thousands of years. first landing of Christopher Columbus in the New World in 1492 is assumed to be on the island of San Salvador (also called Watling's Iceland), southeast of the Bahamas have been. He encountered Taino (also known as Lucayan) Indians and exchange gifts with them.

The 294 982 people living in the Bahamas are predominantlyWestern origin. Their ancestors were slaves brought to the islands to the cotton plantations until 1834, when Britain abolished slavery in its territories work. Most white residents are descendants of the early English settlers who emigrated from Bermuda in 1647 to win the freedom of religion. Some are also related to the Loyalists who fled the southern United States during the American Revolution and built enormous plantations here.

Religion is an important and integralof life in the Bahamas. Even the smallest village has a church, sometimes two. religious fervor of the people and appreciation for education are evidence of their Puritan heritage, derived from the adventurers Eleutheran. The music is also very popular and is located in the bones of men. Caribbean Calypso, African rhythms, English folk songs and uniquely Bahamian Goombay beat echo in the air.

Weddings and funerals in the Bahamas are especially important social events. People are beginning to celebrateWeeks before the ceremony begins, and the transition of their loved ones by parties will long remember after they are gone.

Who could be on the search for the perfect beach very well with the islands of the Bahamas, whose relatively small land mass belies the enormous amount of his foot to start. formed with the large majority of the islands such as tapes, to set two beautiful beach areas of shallow inland separately. The beaches of the Bahamas are oftencoupled with clear shallow water over hundreds of meters into the sea, rising gently to sandbars before finally falling into the abyss.

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