Druggie we have a variety of creole cultures in Guyana and all operate on a continuum. People pick and chose which one or ones they wish, depending on context. NONE of us are exclusively of one culture. ALL of us borrow from other groups, involuntarily from our colonial masters and voluntarily from each other.
I can only wonder why Trinidadians are proud of this diversity (they being even more diverse than we are as they also have Spanish creole and Afro French creole elements). They are proud of being a culture where the mosque, the Hindu temple and the Christian church exist side by side. Where an East Indian was instrumental in developing steel pan, a white Trini will gobble down a doubles and an Afro Trini will pick up a cuatro and sing parang at Xmas.
Druggie why do you negate societies like these and pretend as if cultural creativity doesn't happen? The essence of Trinidad is the soca chutney parang which pulls together the three main musical traditions of that island.
Its the fact that Trinidad recognizes this to the extent that Guyana doesn't is why that society, despite having a similar ethnic mix, isn't stuck as is Guyana. BOTH the PNM and the UNC must perform as neither can take their support base for granted.
And its not as if this cultural fusion and diversity doesn't also represent Guyana. I saw a group of Indo Guyanese American boys dancing some combination of chutney, hip hop, dance hall and soca. I think that this is how they culturally define themselves.
As to religion 40% of Indians are now members of the two Middle Eastern religions (Christianity and Muslim) and there are now more Christian Indians than Muslim. Something tells me that the Indian Christians are more devout than are Indian Hindus, given that they are most often converts and were born as Hindus. The Muslim population hasn't changed that much.
Druggie its the two Middle Eastern religions that are growing in Guyana, as more Indians become Christians and more non Indians become Muslims. This is why the Muslim population hasn't changed that much even as the Indo population dwindles.