The Anglophone Caribbean: The Creation of a Nationality

The West Indieaus have begun to take shape as a new nation, scattered in 13 territories, more than English-speaking, Anglo-thinking or West Indieaus, as they like to be called, they are an enormously coherent conglomerate, with their own and non-transferable personality, with a shared cosmogony that was inherited from the slave imprint, from the colonial experience, from the British institutions and from the new migrations. These belatedly independent former British colonies in the Caribbean shared common values and institutions. Their legal codes were identical and their systems of government and administration emanated from the parliamentary practice of Westminster, which would avoid cumbersome approval procedures. Of course, the most obvious unifying element was the common use of English, with all the cultural consequences that this entails.