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Abstract / Summary

While these changes brought much that was good, including economic prosperity, they also brought problems. One of these was the threat to our culture, as our traditions were swamped in a flood of movies, television, newspapers, etc. from abroad, primarily the U.S., and the influence of so many non-Caymanians, from much older cultures than our own, in the society. Faced with these influences, the old ways began to be forgotten and, indeed, in the minds of some, grew the idea that Cayman did not have a culture of its own, which in turn led to a sort of cultural inferiority complex. In the early 1980's, many Caymanians became very concerned about all of this and work began which eventually resulted in the establishment of the National Cultural Foundation, National Museum, National Trust and National Archive. As part of this initiative, a group of concerned young adults began interviewing older Caymanians on audio tape in order to document the old traditions and way of life. This developed into the Memory Bank, which eventually was recognized by the Government as very important and made part of the National Archive in 1991. All of those earlier tapes are part of the collection.

Field of Interest

Letters and Diaries

Content Type

Oral history

Format

Related Web resources

URL

http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla65/65hm-e.htm

Publisher

ayman Islands. National Archives. Memory Bank

Place Published / Released

Grand Cayman

Subject

Letters and Diaries, History, Communities, Geography, History, Islas Caimán, Ilhas Cayman, Cayman Islands, Georgetown, Grand Cayman, Grand Cayman, North America

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Islas Caimán, Ilhas Cayman