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Your cultural background may influence your everyday life in many ways. My ancestral background stems from the arawak Indians who were the original inhabitants of Jamaica before the arrival of Columbus. The arawak Indians gave the island the name Xaymaca. It wasn’t long before most of the arawaks were killed or died from being overworked and from European diseases. So the Spanish started importing Africans to replace them. In 1655 after the English took Jamaica from the Spaniards Indians and Chinese were brought in to help the African population work the plantations. Over the years many new people arrived from England, France, Scotland, Spain,