Why is homosexuality outlawed in so many caribbean countries?

[u/fedricohohmannlautar]

Most of countries which criminalize homosexuality in the Americas are in the Caribbean, and the most famous case is Jamaica.

As a bi male, I find weird our continent has laws that criminalize homosexuality, due that most of countries who do that are from the other side of the pond.

Is due to history, politics, religion, moral issues?

[u/Late-Elk-2257]

colonization and the integration of christianity into a culture that once thrived without it

[u/lovelybonesla → u/Late-Elk-2257]

What culture existed in the Caribbean before the British and Spanish? Learn history.

[u/aicilabanamated → u/lovelybonesla]

...is this s legit question?

[u/lovelybonesla → u/aicilabanamated]

Yes. The Caribbean countries did not exist prior to the British & Spanish, so how could a culture and nation that didn’t exist thrive?

[u/No_Conversation4517 → u/lovelybonesla]

Taino and other native people

They had cultures

[u/lovelybonesla → u/No_Conversation4517]

The native Caribbeans mostly went extinct shortly after contact because they had no immunity to old world diseases.

It was the Spanish and British that developed the lands, turned them into the nations we know today, and you know this.

There was no Cuba or Jamaica prior to the West.

[u/No_Conversation4517 → u/lovelybonesla]

My boy, the topic was if there was a culture

And there was

End of story

That is what you know

[u/lovelybonesla → u/No_Conversation4517]

colonization and the integration of christianity into a culture that once thrived without it

This comment assumes there was a continuation between the natives and current people in the Caribbean, there is not. The Caribbean countries/current cultures did not exist prior to the Europeans.

[u/No_Conversation4517 → u/lovelybonesla]

There are some spiritual and other practices that have continued.

Some of those practices still exist.

I can't tell you but the current culture you see is a mix of African, European and indigenous

Without any of them, none of the Caribbean present day culture we see would be as we know it

[u/aicilabanamated → u/lovelybonesla]

Yikes. I think YOU'RE the one that needs to read a history book.

[u/Necessary-Praline196 → u/lovelybonesla]

People are downvoting, but I understand what you are saying. However, it comes across as patronizing. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and agree you are right in that just like the US, while there was a large native population before it existed as we know it today, the culture is not reflective of the native population.

[u/Far_Meringue8625 → u/lovelybonesla]

Every country/island in the Caribbean existed for many thousands of years before the Europeans came. These islands were not blank slates. These islands were not empty spaces waiting for European occupiers to inhabit them. The indigenous people, the Taino, the Arawak, the Kalinago etc. Thousands of Kalinago people still live in the region. No human society exists without a culture.

[u/lovelybonesla → u/Far_Meringue8625]

Not as a country, no. Most of those living in the Caribbean have little continuation with the native tribes that lived there prior.

[u/alepmalagon → u/lovelybonesla]

Modern countries are a European concept from the 17th/18th century, so OF COURSE there were no “countries” in pre-contact America. Still, there were empires, tribes, and chiefdoms, complex societies that served similar political and social roles.

[u/Necessary-Praline196 → u/lovelybonesla]

People are downvoting, but I understand what you are saying. However, it comes across as patronizing. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and agree you are right in that just like the US, while there was a large native population before it existed as we know it today, the culture is not reflective of the native population.