African cultural retentions in African American culture
 

Our culture is the least African of all Afro descendants, but alot of Afram culture still has African influences, but its more subtile than in Latin America or the Caribbean.

The Blues is influenced by Sahelian music. The string patterns and call and response style of singing is similar to Blues.



Booty Shaking is also of African origin. African women traditionally danced in this way, and it carried over to the Americans.




The African American church also has an influence from African styles of worship. Just compare an AA church to a Anglo American church. It's a completly different experience.



Soul Food has African influence from the way its prepared, to sone of the foods like rice, black eyed peas, yams, and peanuts are of African origin.

Aframs haven't lost touch with Africa, it's still there in a hybridized form.

That we know, it is that ours is more "tradish" but still you people have connections to your African roots.

Rice is not of African origin.
Neither are peanuts.

It seems the slavemasters in PR were more leinient in traditional African culture than American slavemasters.

African rice does exist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oryza_glaberrima

Peanuts are Amerindid in origin

They came with the African slaves to the Americas. There isn't any traditional English meals that uses rice, and rice was a staple food of West Africa.

Rice is also found in the Mediterranean too.

I don't think you can say any particular plant "originated" with any particular group. The way in which it is prepared, or breed can be said to originate from certain groups though

Rice has various uses in European cuisine.
We have been eating rice in England for hundreds of years.

Rice cultivation existed in West Africa long before Europeans arrived. Many slaves were brought to the Americas because of their rice cultivation skills.

The first time I went to a West African restaurant I saw there was a great deal of similarity between their dishes and African-American cuisine (especially Southern/Cajun food) and Puerto Rican, Dominican cuisine etc. I can see the link. Other parts of Africa have very different staple foods/cuisines etc. and so too did European countries so it clearly is derived from West Africa and not introduced from Europe. I don't think when people go to a British restaurant they would think of ordering rice unless it's from Curry in a Hurry.

Below is what a traditional English meal looks like:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...y.Roast-01.jpg

Typical West african dish:

http://face2faceafrica.com/files/art...ds_platter.jpg

I didn't say anything about who introduced it to the Americas.
I don't think you know much about British culinary habits either.

LOL I dont know why I busted out laughing at that...An avid Pan-Afrocentrist would be pissed at you for saying that http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/laugh.gif

Carry on http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.gif

That exactly what we eat often here. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.gif

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I consider Aframs a different ethnicity from us, despite I also have African ancestry like them, it is like the Spanish and French being different ethnicities despite both of them being white.

Its ok to accept you SSA admixture http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...lies/smile.gif

You can post in our threads with confidence http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/wink.gif

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I agree with you...I just thought the "you people" part was hilarious

If you told this guy below that rice was important to British cuisine I'd think he'd be disappointed. http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ies/tongue.gif

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Whether rice is important within British cuisine is rather irrelevant to the discussion at hand. As irregardless to how long rice has been used in Britain, the style of cooking it is different than how it is done in West Africa. Britain is irrelevant in this discussion.

I doubt it.
There are several British dishes made with rice. We are very multicultural when it comes to food and so we also eat lots of rice with foreign dishes too.

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I wasn't the one who brought it up.

Anyway, most rice in the U.S. is eaten with Mexican or Chinese food, which has nothing to do with Africa.

I wasn't aiming that at any particular person, just that path of the conversation itself.
Also it does not matter what kind of Rice that most of the U.S. eats, as we are not talking about the U.S as a whole. We are talking about African America and its similarities to West Africa in regards to several things, cuisine being numbered among those things.

.......I'm Dead right now LOL LOL LOL

Thats an Ignorant statement. You know very little about Southern,US cuisine. Rice is a staple of many Southern dishe of West African origin.