The cultural legacy of the African descendants

• In humanity, the legendary barriers of intercultural communication have been broken; within the contradictory term known as Globalization, resources which enhance the approach among cultures that besides its similarity are geographically closely interrelated has. After the establishment of African communities through the Diaspora, it facilitated cultural survival to this day; In recent years, the idiosyncratic capacity of each culture to praise diversity has gained strength. *

Afro-descendant America

In America it highlights the necessity of establishing an intercultural dialogue with African countries, regarding social, cultural and linguistic aspects. It makes reference to diff erent types of experiences, about intercultural exchange with Africa, over the years, foci of Afro-descendant culture have been fostered, in Venezuela there are at least a hundred Afro communities each with a well defined cultural expression for example Curiepe and San Juan, Guarenas - Guatire with San Pedro, Yare and Corpus Christi, Naiguatá and its sardine, among many more, which have survived through syncretism, but transculturization has been overwhelming traditions creating confusion and destabilization of the foundations of a new wave of African culture demarcated by strong consumer and commercial trends in North America that have been distancing young people from their traditional roots, making them alien to their own source.

And it is when groups such as Ilê Aiyê from Salvador, Brazil, who are a controversial group of pioneers of the carnival known as the Bloco Afro, present thousands of songs about the importance of African and Afro-Brazilian culture and religion, loaded with African cultural themes and mythologies, celebrating the aesthetic beauty of afro descent becoming a famous element of the Bahia Carnival.

In one interview they say `When Ilê Aiyê emerged 40 years ago, there was no record that a black woman had dared to participate in a beauty competition. Despite the fact that the Brazilian population is mostly mestizo (this historic irreversible fact), Brazil always exported a stereotype of women in beauty contests that did not correspond to the national ethnic reality. Except for the contests of "mulattas" and "oba-obas" of the "ziriguiduns", that did not go through the question of the consciousness of blackness or the valuation of women.

Our heritage

The musical resources of the Caribbean communities come mostly from African roots, the Afro-Cuban, Dominican rhythms, the bomba and plena from Puerto Rico or Panama, the choco drums in Colombia, the Callao communities in Peru, not counting the mentioned of Brazil and Venezuela, of the many countries that I fail to mention that make up the Afro-cultural panorama of America and the Caribbean our heritage, our cultural heritage.

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He calls us, to sing to our Big House. ** We praise the blessings of family and children, as well as the creation and destruction, which occur in every corner of the world. They are the blessings of the world, they are my blessings, Ase. **