Brief Description of The Haiti

Haiti is a country that have been colonise by Spanish & France, which geographical location is in Caribbean Sea in North America and its bordered to the east by the Dominican Republic, to the south and west by the Caribbean, and to the north by the Atlantic Ocean. We can found Haiti in the map in North America between Central America and the Caribbean with its total area 27,750 sq km. Its features is mostly tropical climate. It is rich with a lot of natural resources such as bauxite, copper, calcium carbonate, gold, marble, hydropower and arable land. Haiti population is estimated at 11,067,777 (July 2020 est.) and the population distribution is fairly even distribution; largest concentrations located near coastal areas also, 38.45% of the country median age is in range of 25-54 years old according to the population pyramid.

Haiti have two official language which are French and Haitian Creole. Most people are bilingual and 8.5 million of people in Haiti use Haitian Creole. Also, there is an interested fact that there is a slightly different between alphabet of Haitian Creole and English alphabet only that Haitian Creole they do not have the letters C,Q and X that are found in English instead of these 3 letters they use K,KW and KS. For examples, in English we said car while Creole Jodi a and French voiture. The order of the words in sentence structure of Creole is like French it have subject, verb and object like English.

On the other hand, the official religion in Haiti is Roman Catholicism but Voodoo is considered as country national religion too. While they have a special dress code that the women wear Quadrille which is made from off the shoulder top with a fall matching skirt while the man wear a long pants with short sleeved collared shirts.

Moreover, they have a lot of special dishes such as Poulet Aux Noix (chicken and cashew nuts), Griyo (fried pork), Mayi Moulen Kole ak Legim (cornmeal, beans and vegetable stew) and Tassot/Taso (dried fried meat). There famous sweets are Dous Makos (Haitian fudge) and Mamba (peanut butter) .

Haiti have a special days to celebrate on it such as New Year’s Day and Independence Day it’s the declaration of independence from France which is on January 1 also, on same date they celebrate the National day. However, every January 2 they celebrate by the Ancestry Day this holiday commemorates the Haitian forefathers who gave their lives in the struggle for independence from France. While they have also Carnival day which called “Kanaval” in local Creole, this event takes place annually in February and traditionally coincides with the start of Lent. Also, many other days such as Rara day, Krik? Krak! Festival and Dessalines Day.

Haiti country have been considered as a collectivist culture because they value the group over the individual. Also, they have high context.