Word: arawak
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Well, it's time to shatter that idealized myth. When Columbus arrived on Cuba, Hispaniola and other islands in the Caribbean he instituted shockingly cruel and genocidal policies which rapidly decimated the populations of indigenous Arawak Indians. He was also a slave trader, and his own words condemn him. Furthermore, the claim that he "discovered" the New World is dubious--he accidentally came into contact with a culture that had existed for hundreds if not thousands of years...
...Americans with statements like: "I'm now a wealthy person.... I wasn't wealthy when I retired. I mean, I just figured out what the white guys were doing." (Henry Louis Gates, The New Yorker, Sept. 25, 1995). Or statements like: "He ticks off African, English, Irish, and probable Arawak Indian ancestry [when asked to describe his own city...
...Francisco, Milwaukee, Worcester, Mass., and Washington, D.C. Soon to be started are hotels in Curaçao, Cyprus, Addis Ababa, Dublin, Manila, Caracas, Barbados, St. Paul and Kuwait. Fortnight ago, Hilton added the Dorado Riviera in Puerto Rico to his empire, and last week he took over the Arawak in Jamaica...
Lapidus followed his Florida successes with the 176-room Arawak Hotel in Jamaica and the 150-room Aruba Caribbean-Casino in the Netherlands West Indies...
...hotels helped the guests feel at home. At the top resorts, visitors with a yearning for a kosher dinner could get it-flown in frozen from Lou Siegel's Restaurant in Manhattan. At the brassy Arawak Hotel in Jamaica, the planned games included both generations. While the children put on free "calypso" shirts and went for a donkey ride, the parents bet on crabs that had been painted red or blue and goaded into a sidewise race. In tonier circles, no help from the management was needed. The cafe society crowd at Montego's Round Hill...