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Countdown to Carnival

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It's Carnival season here in Trinidad -- everywhere you turn, soca is playing on the radio, signs are up everywhere announcing the latest Carnival all-inclusive party (or "fete," as they're called), and the gyms are packed with people, in a last-ditch effort to get their bodies in shape for an optimistically-purchased teensy-tiny costume. It's a wonderful time of year. Or so it would seem.

Georgia, the author of the weblog Caribbean Free Radio, laments the passing of Carnivals of long ago, back when people felt far safer to dance in the streets, and celebrate Carnival in a less fragmented way. Read her commentary to find out more.

I'm curious: I know that Carnival is celebrated all over the world, in many different ways. Do you find that Carnival is changing for the positive or the negative where you live? Why?

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arubagirl
arubagirl 5 pts

So far, I don't think it has changed either way very much.

There seems to be some evolution going on in Aruba where the music is going from soca/calypso to more R&B and/or Reaggae type influences, which I'm not sure that I like.

As for the parades themselves, so far they're going all right, of course, the real test will be (as always) the Grand Parade on the Sunday before Lent.

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