Race In Trinidad

Another significant point that has to be noted is that there's a weight given to cultural transmission as the transport for preservation for heritage. Meaning, cultural transmission is extremely important as it is the medium and conveyer to heritage. Herskovites and Klass both view culture as the sum of the entire transmitted heritage with the one main feature being continuity through socialization. Klass however, says that Indian culture is a 'remembered system' having been manipulated by 'individual carriers of culture' and is quite capable being transmitted through generations. However studies have shown that parents are guilty of deliberately inducing new direction and values to their children as change occurs. Therefore, Cultural transmission cannot be a repetitive process creating new each generation with ideas and images from the past. However, some many migrants when travelling to a new country carry many aspects of their own culture. However, where there are seriously aspects of legal, political, racial and economic barriers in the receiving society, ghetto cultures appear .Though East Indians in Trinidad can be commended as this is not the case.

Another important point of the two views are both studies do not sufficiently discriminate culture from social structure.*

To prove and argue certain points, studies were carried out in Trinidad and Guyana and had a strong effect on the way scholars perceive the structure of multi-ethnic Caribbean societies. In the study of Smith he views the core of culture as in the institutional system and cultural pluralism and occurs when cultural category adheres to its own unique system of institutions like; religion, education etc. as a result we can say that cultural differentiation instead of the before social stratification is considered the answer to recognizing the significant units on one's society.

The immigrant culture or the entire ethnic category on a whole is often used as an independent variable to analyze rural economic patterns and certain aspects to education or abstractionist and recalcitrant attitudes

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