Jamaica: Conformity?

“The Caribbean is, according to Rex Nettleford, the ideal model of what the world is trying to achieve through globalisation: different people and cultures and races melted into one big pot, sharing the same geographical space” – but to Jamaican blogger Ruthibelle, “it seems…that this quest for one region, for one world – is accompanied by a great evil: the crucifixion of our human/national individualities…”

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