Dismemberment

I enjoyed Dr.Beatty’s lecture and the way he introduced some new facts into my life. He made sure to thoroughly discuss dismemberment from where it began and ended. I liked how he involved some students in the lecture when bringing up some of the aspects of African culture that were brought to the Americas through the Middle Passage that are still about today. Africans brought over a culture that introduced different kinds of speech, religion, cuisine, science, song, technology and music. With time the combination of both the European and African cultures, the European traditions took supremacy over most of the African traditions. In his lecture he went over the loss of African culture through The “Middle Passage” over time. When he asked “does physical abandonment lead to cultural abandonment?” it really made me think and I kind of agreed.  I felt as though most people or peoples who move as the Africans did adapt to the culture around them. Some places such as Brazil, Haiti, and Cuba some aspects of African tradition still remain.