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...concrete and neon. Few travelers in search of tranquillity and an authentic native culture would risk their dollars or digestions today on such tourist emporiums as San Juan and St. Maarten. The American Virgins have mostly been deflowered by developers; St. Croix has seen mindless racial killing. Trinidad and Jamaica, Barbados and the Bahamas have become tourist traps. Cuba and, to some extent, Haiti have been mutated; Castroism is infecting other islands, notably Grenada. In many parts of the West Indies, political, economic and social unrest are curdling the coconut milk...
...Anguilla, Montserrat and Barbuda. These islands were named but largely ignored by the Spanish because they offered little promise of quick riches; for the most part, they have scant rainfall and thin soil. Thus they were generally spared the excesses of European rivalry that devastated rich plantation colonies like Jamaica, Trinidad, Cuba and Hispaniola. They also have escaped exploitation. They cannot be reached by direct flight from the U.S. or Europe, and they closely regulate development of any kind...
This attitude remains today as Jamaica, with "all the trappings of power" and prestige of an independent state, continues to look to the industrialized western powers for solutions to its problems, Nettleford said. Jamaicans need to look to their own culture in solving their country's troubles, he added...
...nearly two million Jamaicans outside Jamaica tend to reinforce the myth of their country's idyllic condition, Nettleford said...
Nettleford's speech centered on topics from his new book "Caribbean Cultural Identity: The Case of Jamaica...