This small country has a homogeneous culture, profoundly marked by centuries of Portuguese colonialism, although the government has been keen to stress the country's African heritage. Language, family structure, and religion are basically Portuguese. Many African elements have been adopted in the cooking, customs, beliefs, and dress of the common people, and the poorer classes only speak creole. The single newspaper appears erratically, but the government-run radio station is active, and there have been experiments with a television station.