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The population of the island of Aruba is well over 110,000 people. The Aruba culture is one of a mixed ancestry, Caquetio Indian, African, and European among many more all reside within the island of Aruba. Aruba is located within the kingdom of the Netherlands and with the diversity in immigration and is one of the top ten countries with the highest immigration rate. The People of Aruba also an overall very strong national identity, With their healthy economy, strong education system as well as having the highest standards of living within the Caribbean, all of these aspects have helped shape and mold the the people of Aruba as well as the culture that surrounds them. The people as a whole are also generally deemed very warm and kind-hearted to not only each other but to guests and visitors as well, some people even claiming that its the people who bring them back every year.

Between 1985 and 1987 the country of Aruba lost many citizens due to emigration. In 1990, Aruba gained more than 20,000 residents which made it one of the fastest growing countries in the world. The oil industry in the country was growing rapidly along with the amount of tourism; this led the population growth rate to be more than 5.3 percent at all times. Aruba as one, became a much more stable country, as it once was.

Many people in the Aruba island culture are multilingual meaning they can speak more than two or three languages. Languages in this culture are known to be mainly Spanish and English, but also include languages such as Dutch, Portuguese and a local language known as Papiamentu. The Leeward islands also known as the (ABC) islands are Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao. All three islands include the languages listed above.

Children in Aruba are known to start school by the age of four and are commonly known to be multilingual by this time. Although main languages for Aruba are Papiamentu and Dutch, English is taught through education when reaching the sixth grade. One issue that has been known to the ABC islands for a very long period of time now is that of people speaking too many languages. Speaking too many languages has had a major effect on the way students learn, students being taught in different languages not only confuses some but also makes it difficult to decide which language is best for them.