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Jamaica, Colombia: Identity etc

Categories: Caribbean, Latin America, Colombia, Jamaica, Arts & Culture, Ideas, International Relations

In response to some questions posed to him in December [1], Jamaican writer Geoffrey Philp writes an open letter recounting a visit to a Colombian restaurant in Florida with his (part-Colombian) family [2]: “Of course, I’ve chosen to blog about it and this is one way about talking about your questions, which are really questions about identity.This story is merely to set the groundwork for the discussion, and an example of how a choice in creating an identity can have a positive result.”