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The article that we were assigned to edit was Creolization. the article itself has a few grammatical errors and not entirely factual information. it does have some good sources but puts Creolization into a small pipe. for example, the first sentence in the article begins with "Creolization is the process in which creole cultures emerge in the New World. Creolization is a little more than that when looking into more sources. its a process that could essentially happen anywhere but does relate to mostly the Caribbean culture and its many parts. food, religion and religion are definitely major components of Creolization but this article barely scratches the surface of the effects of Creolization on these subjects. The plan is to expand upon the food, religion and music subcategories using validated and vetted sources on each category. a few that we've came up with are:

Bickerton, D. (2014). More Than Nature Needs : Language, Mind, and Evolution. Cumberland: Harvard University Press.

Stewart, C. (2007). Creolization history, ethnography, theory. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

Balutansky, K., & Sourieau, M. (1998). Caribbean creolization : reflections on the cultural dynamics of language, literature, and identity. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Palmie, S. (2006). Creolization and its discontents. Annual Review of Anthropology, 35.

Goucher, C. (2014). ''Congotay! Congotay! : a global history of Caribbean food''. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc.

Martin, D. (2011). The musical heritage of slavery: From creolization to “world music.” In Music and Globalization: Critical Encounters (pp. 17–39). Indiana University Press.

Kananoja, K. (2010). Healers, Idolaters, and Good Christians: A Case Study of Creolization and Popular Religion in Mid-Eighteenth Century Angola. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 43(3), 443–465.

Food[edit]
Creolization has affected the elements and traditions of food. The blend of cooking that describes the mixture of African and French elements in the American South, particularly in Louisiana, and in the French Caribbean have been influenced by creolization. This mixture has led to the unique combination of cultures that led to cuisine of creolization, better known as creole cooking. These very creations of difference flavors particularly pertains to specific territory which is influenced by different histories and experiences. (new) The Caribbean has been a colonized under a multitude of different countries which influenced the creation of new and different recipes as well as the implementation of new cooking methods. Creole cooking pulls heavily from French and Spanish influences due to their colonization in the 1600s through the mid to late 1900s. They also pull influence from their African roots and a different mixture of Native American tribe cooking methods.

Music[edit]
(NEW)Denis-Constant Martin states that to some degree, most forms of music that we call popular, come from the oppression of a people or slavery to some degree. this cross-fertilization triggers a cultural blending and creates a completely different form of its own through the turmoil and conflict of the dominating and dominated culture. One such form of this is Jazz music. Jazz music took its roots from the dialogue between black folk music in the U.S., that is derived from plantations and rural areas and black music based in urban New Orleans. Jazz music developed from the creole music that takes its roots from the combination of blues, parlour music, opera, and spiritual music.

Religion[edit]
The popular religions of Haiti, Cuba, Trinidad, and Brazil formed from the mixing of African and European elements. Religious beliefs such as Voodoo in Haiti, Santeria in Cuba, Shango in Trinidad, and Candomblé in Brazil take its roots from creolization. The creation of these new religious expressions have sustained and evolved over time to make creole religions.