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The culture of Belize is a mix of influences and people from Kriol, Maya, East Indian, Garinagu (also known as Garifuna), Mestizo (a mixture of Spanish and Native Americans), Mennonites who are of German descent, with many other cultures from Chinese to Lebanese. It is a unique blend that emerged through the country's long and occasionally ...
Belizeans are people associated with the country of Belize through citizenship or descent. Belize is a multiethnic country with residents of Ethnic groups of Amerindian, African, European, Asian and Middle-eastern descent or mixed race with any combination of those groups.
Indo-Belizeans; Total population; 7,000-8,000 [1] (January 2016, est.): Regions with significant populations; Toledo District · Corozal District · Belize City: Languages; Standard Hindustani (Hindi–Urdu) · Sindhi · Punjabi · Gujarati · Kutchi · Bengali · Tamil · Telugu (spoken by more recent immigrants and their descendants, either Belizean-born or Belizean-naturalized)
Belize's social structure is marked by enduring differences in the distribution of wealth, power, and prestige.Because of the small size of Belize's population and the intimate scale of social relations, the social distance between the rich and the poor, while significant, is nowhere as vast as in other Caribbean and Central American societies, such as Jamaica and El Salvador.
Belize has a dozen or more active cultures and the different ethnic groups have all contributed in the making of the Belizean identity through food, music, loaned words, folklores, fashion and arts. They have blended together, creating the Belizean unity captured by the country's motto, "Sub umbra floreo," which means, "Under the shade I flourish."
Pages in category "Culture of Belize" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Culture of Belize; A.
Mennonites in Belize form different religious bodies and come from different ethnic backgrounds. There are groups of Mennonites living in Belize who are quite traditional and conservative (e. g. in Shipyard and Upper Barton Creek ), while others have modernized to various degrees (e. g. in Spanish Lookout and Blue Creek ).
Until the early 1980s, Belizean Creoles constituted close to 60% of the population of Belize.But, the demographics of the country have changed markedly. Because of the combined effects of immigration to Belize of people from other Central American countries, and emigration of an estimated 85,000 Creoles, most to the United States, in the early 21st century the Creoles make up only about 25% of ...