Word: nettleford
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jewel Movement has run up a $17.1 million debt that equals 21 % of the country's annual production of goods and services. Despite largescale emigration from the islands, unemployment has reached rates of more than 30%, with the level approaching 50% among increasingly restive youths. Says Rex Nettleford, a Jamaican author and director of studies for the Trade Union Institute of the University of the West Indies: "If there are not fundamental changes, we are going to have very serious problems. Violence is quite possible...
...Nettleford said British colonial domination of Jamaica led to cultural domination as well. Jamaicans had to adopt European ways in order to gain acceptance in their own country...
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...