Have you ever been to the Notting Hill Carnival? Ask around and you'll see that this gathering of over 2 million people in London every year leaves no one indifferent. There's a before and after Notting Hill. As the second most popular carnival after Rio, the Notting Hill Carnival is much more than a festive event. It is an opportunity for us Caribbean people to gather around one of the pillars of our Caribbean culture. The music, the food, the costumes, the atmosphere. Historically, the Notting Hill Carnival was born after the 1958 riots in London between immigrants from the former English colonies and white people. It was a means for the Caribbean populations to exist and to promote their culture... Today it has become an essential part of the English, European and even international festive calendar. USC needs to raise awareness. Traditional folklore is one thing, but Notting Hill was first and foremost the name of a neighbourhood inhabited by black immigrants.  This carnival was born in order to preserve black culture. Today, with the world it attracts, foreign organizations are taking over the streets without really understanding the origin of this carnival.

Can authenticity be threatened by globalization?