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Right now let's talk about Haiti culture. As usual we'll start up with Food. The national dish in Haiti is Rice and Beans. In this dish they add herbs like garlic or thym to add flavours. Other typical dishes exist such as banane pesée, flattened plantain slices fried in cooking oïl; or Soup Joumon , a dish that all the haitians eat on their independence day, January 1st. Haiti has also some locally producted food as kidney, pinto, or oregano.
Rice and Beans
Then we'll continue with Music and Dance. Haiti has several music genres such as Compas, Méringue, Hip-Hop Kréyol, Twoubadou ballads or Zouk. Concerning artists, Wyclef Jean, a hip-hop artist, is from Haiti. About Dance, People attend parties at nightclubs called Discos and Bal. This term is the French word for ball, as in a formal dance.
Wyclef Jean
We'll end up this article with Sports and Literature. In Haiti, the most popular sport is Football. Indeed, there are hundreds of small football clubs competing at the local level. In 1974, the national team was the second Caribbean team to be qualified at the World Cup (after Cuba's entry in 1938) They lost in the opening. However, the team won the 2007 Caribbean Nations Cup. Haitian soccer player Joe Gaetjens played for the USA national team in the 1950 FIFA World Cup, scoring the winning goal in the 1–0 upset of England.Basketball is also becoming very popular. Haiti has also won medals in Olympic Games.
About Litterature, Haiti is the birthplace to Franketienne, great author, and the first to write a novel entirely in Haitian Creole, named Dezafi (1975). It describes a poetic picture of Haitian life.
Joe Gaetjens
Frankétienne
To conclude, Haiti is a beautiful and strong country, despite the Earthquake hiting it in 2010. I'll end up this article by showing y'all a beautiful place in Haiti, proving that Haiti has also its good side :
A beautiful beach
Peace !
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