bahamas

Bahamas

The Bahamas is the site of Columbus's first landfall in the New World in 1492. At that time, the islands were inhabited by theLucayans, a branch of the Arawakan-speakingTaíno people. Although the Spanish never colonized The Bahamas, they shipped the native Lucayans to slavery in Hispaniola. The islands were mostly deserted from 1513 until 1648, when English colonists from Bermudasettled on the island of Eleuthera.

The Bahamas became a British crown colonyin 1718, when the British clamped down onpiracy. After the American War of Independence, the Crown resettled thousands of American Loyalists in the Bahamas; they brought their slaves with them and established plantations on land grants. Africans constituted the majority of the population from this period. The slave trade was abolished by the British in 1807; slavery in the Bahamas was abolished in 1834. Subsequently, the Bahamas became a haven for freed African slaves; the Royal Navyresettled Africans there liberated from illegal slave ships, North American slaves andSeminoles escaped here from Florida, and the government freed slaves carried on US domestic ships that had reached the Bahamas due to weather. Today, Afro-Bahamians make up nearly 90% of the population.

Bahamas has a personal space there are:

1. Bahamas like direct eye contect, so when you talk with Bahamas you must to look them if you do not stare them this is considered rude.
2. When you visit to Bahamas you will often find them when they talk, they us many touch.
3. When the Bahamas speak the distance is around one arm.
4. Humor is part of their communication style.
5. Smiling and laughing are common.