HAITIAN CULTURE AND IDENTITY
Oldine Monestime, Vizcaya’s Volunteer Activities Fellow, reflects on how she culturally identifies.
Transcript
Oldine Monestime (00:00):
Identify as being Haitian-American. Even though my mother is of Bahamian descent, her mother is Haitian and raised her in the Haitian culture. That’s all that I know. I have visited both countries, but from a cultural standpoint, the way that we were brought up in the home, we speak Creole. It’s just been Haitian culture.
