JAMAICAN CULTURE IN THE REST OF THE CARIBBEAN

An extract from a Trinidad newspaper article on in fighting in Trinidad and small island complexes etc.

Trinis talking down Trinis

Keith Smith

Tuesday, June 28th 2005

Now, as a man with a Grenadian father and, as a result, having grown up with any number of Grenadian foster-fathers-successful men, to boot-I should tell you that I don't know how "Grenadian" became a term of derision but you'd know that I'd be posturing, you knowing as well as I that that is another seta Trinidadian stupidness engendered, I suppose, by some mistaken sense of superiority over the "small islands" as if we big and, as if we don't work ourselves up into a curry goat stew fuming over how Jamaicans feel they better than us, more than ever now that their "culture" is well and truly in place here, half the youth at least into dancehall and things Rastafarian and, since the police sure to be listening, we'd better not go on 'bout the "happy herb" that ganja, supposedly-only supposedly, mind you-is.

read the article in its entirety at: http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_opinion?id=85835068

{In the words of the immortal Sizzla Kalonji... "Rasta taking ova, and we got nuttin to fear..."}