Talk:Culture of Costa Rica
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The "Ethnicity" section is full of generalizations and plain factual errors. I am not sure one can faithfully explain the racial and ethnic make-up of a country in a paragraph, but still i'll try to rephrase it a bit. And just to be clear, the "atlantic railroad" constructed in the last three decades of the 19th century was not built by slaves. Slavery was abolished three years after independence in the whole Central America (1824). In colonial times (1502-1821) there was a relatively important forced migration of african slaves into the region, and they were also important for the cocoa production in Matina, but most of the people that later populated the actual province of Limon are descendents of free workers that came from the english-speaking caribbean (mainly Jamaica, but also St. Vincent, St. Kitts, etc.) at the end of the 19th century.
[edit] 'National attitude'
What's with this generalizing piece? It reminds me of this textbook from the 19th century in which the Dutch are an 'industrious race' and 'Chinese children are very obedient to their parents'.
This section has no place on Wikipedia. --Joffeloff 02:06, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
