tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859967.post113686334651947211..comments2024-02-08T03:27:16.673-04:00Comments on Nicholas Laughlin's blog etc.: Nicholas Laughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08636815243848162408noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859967.post-1138076177950095722006-01-24T00:16:00.000-04:002006-01-24T00:16:00.000-04:00Apparently, Harvard Jamerican sociologist Orlando ...Apparently, Harvard Jamerican sociologist Orlando Patterson has placed Brooklyn and the East Coast of the United States and the Caribbean in the same cultural cosmos.<BR/><BR/>See:<BR/>Patterson, Orlando. 1994. “Ecumenical America: Global Culture and the American Cosmos.”World Policy Journal 11(2):103-117.<BR/><BR/>You can find it online I think but I don't know where. Gtear post!Alice B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12773528592013987324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859967.post-1136932001887886362006-01-10T18:26:00.000-04:002006-01-10T18:26:00.000-04:00Chris... in my case, the only case of which I can ...Chris... in my case, the only case of which I can speak - it's not that the grass is greener, but that the soil is more fertile.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859967.post-1136923246333748362006-01-10T16:00:00.000-04:002006-01-10T16:00:00.000-04:00Well, I think it has more to do with how we view o...Well, I think it has more to do with how we view our island. We're not raised to view the value of our land the way I think we ought to. So those who stay and work don't have the drive to rise above mediocrity and those who leave do so because of that mediocrity and because they've the resources to do. It's a grass is greener situation.<BR/><BR/>That's why I think that those who think of leaving or those who've left and are thinking of returning should embrace technology and free software as a kind of liberation from constraints that may have drove them out. Think of how much cheaper a movie would be if was edited on oss. Maybe an author would actually stay if his books were published in e-book form or printed on-demand.Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15918726150538198702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859967.post-1136922705475541572006-01-10T15:51:00.000-04:002006-01-10T15:51:00.000-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15918726150538198702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859967.post-1136922296587162672006-01-10T15:44:00.000-04:002006-01-10T15:44:00.000-04:00Absolutely right. This is one of the things that w...Absolutely right. This is one of the things that was discussed in the original CARDICIS - the 'Caribbean Identity', or lack of said subject thereof. <BR/><BR/>Myself? I'm getting ready to leave by the end of the first fiscal quarter... Once I tie up some loose ends, there is nothing tieing me here and I can easily go where interest in progress is made more concrete. The crime helped that decision, but it was really the technological, cultural and economic inertia which makes it implausible to actually move forward. <BR/><BR/>Sure, I like a mango tree in my yard, but when faced with prioritizations in what I want out of life, I want the mango tree but not at the cost of everything else. I've put in 5 years in the region, and while I may not return to the U.S., I can go to other countries even within the region which would not suffer a resident these choices.<BR/><BR/>No big loss for either myself or the country, I suppose. But after leaving Trinidad in a threadbare shirt in 1988, building myself into someone who can *do* things, I returned in 2000 - to find the fetters has actually tightened in my absence. <BR/><BR/>The wild bird dies in a cage.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859967.post-1136902419546863762006-01-10T10:13:00.000-04:002006-01-10T10:13:00.000-04:00great post. I think about those things all the tim...great post. I think about those things all the time and then throw in the bit about being born and bred in a 'Colonial centre' which only clouds the matter more. I think your last comment is close to the 21st century truth - although the quibble space will no doubt always persist. "1. a Caribbean person is any person who thinks he or she is Caribbean, & 2. a Caribbean place is a place where a Caribbean person lives, & the more Caribbean people that live in a place, the more Caribbean it is."Dylanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09256388913594034925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3859967.post-1136867538010643242006-01-10T00:32:00.000-04:002006-01-10T00:32:00.000-04:00For another angle on the issue, see this post by B...For another angle on the issue, see this post by Bahamian blogger/columnist Nicolette Bethel: http://bahamapundit.typepad.com/bahama_pundit/2005/12/on_the_attracti.html<BR/><BR/>And welcome to Commentsville! I think you'll love it here.<BR/><BR/>GAPAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com