My part of the presentation was pretty much the stereotypes you find when entering Overtown. I reserached an article about a man who moved into overtown to experiment the lifestyle and came across some humiliating moments due to assumation. The first person he met was a Jamaican who he could have sworn liked "reggae" from what he's heard about Jamaican's , but when bringing up the topic came to find that the Jamaican only listened to country music. The second assumption he could have sworn was reality, he met a "chinese" man who when asking when his family arrived from asia was found very offended because he was trinidadian, which is an island predominantly black with ancestors half black half asian. Another very surprising thing i came upon was the fact that his daughter had a field trip for school to the beach and when returning home found herself overwhelmed with all the neighborhood children anxiuos to hear about her visit to the beach. Why were those children so excited about hearing her experiences? because they stated "although we live 15 minutes away from the beach, either our parents are too afraid to let us go because they're scared of how we may be looked at or everyone is always working for a living so there is no form of transportation. My reading only shows a few of the facts about Overtown and yet there is so much more to learn about these unique individuals.
