Prejudice, Trinidad, and 'Jamaican Exceptionalism'

“The imposition of structural adjustment programs in the Third World since the 1970s has been characterized as a war against the poor, a process of [neo] recolonization” (Turner, 1994: 37). This statement is particularly applicable to the country of Jamaica. The island has been susceptible to a variety of neocolonial acts including the presence of multinational corporations, structural adjustment programs, and loan organizations that have sucked Jamaica’s economy dry. This neocolonial presence has devastated the population in more ways than one. It is apparent that neocolonialism has had and continues to have a large impact on society as a whole in Jamaica. This

In an article written in the Jamaica Observer, Haughton (2017) describes the state of Jamaica as an under-developed child who continues to depend on its parents for approval. “For many years colonialism milked Jamaica and other Caribbean countries by imposing a false identity on our people, diminishing resources that affected growth and development (Haughton, 2017).

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According to the encyclopedia, culture is defined as “The totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought [www.wikipedia.com].” In Trinidad these particular aspects are very distinct to the people's daily lives on the island. The diversity of actual cultures and ethnicities on the island has melted together over the centuries to create a Trinidadian culture of its own. There are influences from almost every part of the world including, India, China, the United States, Lebanon, Spain, Britian, Africa, and cultures native the Caribbean.

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Jamaica is a land of diverse cultures. It has a number of different racial ethnic groups .The largest group however is the blacks or Africans so 'Jamaica’s culture' is predominantly black. Interwoven is also the European culture which these blacks learnt from their former white slaves masters. You will find Indians living in Jamaica also. Many Indians came to Jamaica as indentured servants and stayed, they too have an input in the Jamaica’s culture.

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One of the most challenging things that Jamaicans have had to cope with is the physical and psychological isolation. On the island, the country is so small that it is easy to visit extended family members on a daily basis. Here, in the United States, however,

It was around 0100 on a warm and humid December night twenty nautical miles off the south west coast of Puerto Rico. I was a part of a crew of four aboard a thirty-three-foot special response boat going twenty-five knots in five to six foot seas with nothing to see but the pitch black of night, and the luminous glow of the console gauges reflecting off the windscreen. We were being vectored in by a Customs and Border Protection helicopter who was covertly tracking a yola suspected of transporting cocaine from the Dominican Republic. After two hours of being beaten half to death by the rough seas we came within twenty-five yards of the yola without ever seeing them. Once in range the CBP helicopter lit up the night and we got on our loud speaker

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With the arrival of the 1980’s, Jamaica saw accelerating inflation, falling output, a severe foreign exchange crisis, and political and social tensions.