When I say "nothing of note", Im not saying they didn't have culture, Im just saying they didn't produce anything of note/influential on global level. Let's be real, before the 1960's, only people in the West Indies (non-spanish speaking) that produced or had any influence on global level was Trinidad and Haiti. The rest of the West Indies was basically invisible. Once Jamaica started swagger jacking from Aframs, they then produced influential global culture. When you look at the West Indies today, Jamaica is basically king w/ prob Trinidad being 2nd and they have all other West Indian nations jacking from them. Take Barbados for example, their biggest export Rihanna, is basically jacking from Afram culture and Jamaican culture. Where is the distinctly Bajan culture?
I agreed, that's why I said I understood what you meant by that. Most of the lesser antilles aren't populated or exposed enough to have a mark on a global scale but that doesn't mean that things that transpired on those islands didn't have a chain reaction for those within close proximity. Also, there are things unwritten, unspoken and have to be experienced or witnessed 1st hand, that goes down in some places in those "invisible" islands that still held on to cultures of the past.
As said before, shenanigans that went on on other islands(as you stated Jamaicans swagger jacking AA) don't hold weight on every islands.