Is St.Maarten loosing it's culture?

If you were to ask the people of St.Maarten what exactly our culture is no one is quite sure. That’s because through the years we are slowly loosing our culture. If the people of St.Maarten don’t know what our culture is how will St.Maarten market its culture. If we have no culture there won’t be anything unique for those who are vacationing on St.Maarten to see. We have to do as much as we can to keep the culture of St.Maarten. The most of St.Maarten’s culture has been influenced by Africa and Europe. We’re a small island divided by two nationalities; our culture should be really strong as easy to see. Don’t get me wrong our culture is still there but we’re slowly loosing that island flavor. If you look around St.Maarten it’s filled with big buildings and malls. Our main tourism income comes from The United States and Canada. The Americans have all those things already, big buildings, huge shopping malls etc, and they don’t want to come on vacation to our island to see the same things. They want to experience the island life such as the markets. Our island is very popular for the markets. They also want to experience the beaches, forts, carnival and let me not forget the guava berry, our island drink. If we continue to Americanize our island we will loose the island image that we have so even though we our improving our island we just have to make sure to keep our culture, the culture all tourist travel to St.Maarten to experience.