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Portlandia, Parts Unknown: Jamaica

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Updated: Friday, June 15, 2018 Anthony Bourdain Born: June 25, 1956, New York City, NY, Died: June 8, 2018, Strasbourg, France. You were loved, respected and You will be missed. Walk good in Parts Unknown.  I watched “Anthony Bourdain - Parts Unknown: Jamaica” and I did not like it, it was rubbish really but yard people love the idea of being on global TV, regardless of the subject matter. I thought it was generic, one dimensional, predictable and lazy television at its very best. I grow tired of the overseas press and their hatchet job when it comes to Jamaica because they always go for the Lowest Common Denominator to get ratings. It is not that what was shown was lie, I am not saying the show misrepresented the facts, the show did highlight one aspect of real life in Portland, Jamaica. It showed that Portland is a parish standing still in no man’s land waiting like the phoenix to rise from the ashes but I will return to that in a moment. If the only purpose of t...