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Lack of Social Engineering in Jamaica

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I agree that parents are responsible for the development of their offspring's. I agree that parents should guide and protect their offspring. I agree that parents should make sure their offspring's are properly socialized, understanding their roles within society. I agree that parents should teach their children manners, morals and proper problem/solution skills. Making sure they know that violence is not the solution to every problem. I agree that parents should properly integrate their children into society, promoting good social values and behavior over anti-social behavior.  In order to teach better, you must know better and if you do not know better, thinking your dysfunctional lifestyle is the norm and acceptable, then how are you going to teach better to your children? In the real world, I think we overuse the word parents and apply the word to people who should be parents,  but they are not parents  because they were never educated to be parents and as such, t...

Profiling and Practicality

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    The preferred Mode of Transportation in Jamaica Most Jamaicans suffer from sense of entitlement and an overabundance of self-importance! In Jamaica the concept of Profiling and living a Practical life represents opposite ends of the spectrum as profiling wins every time. Yes I know,  it is a rubbish way of living one's life but most Jamaicans define themselves, by how much they can profile. It is the only way they know how to stand apart, show that they have arrived and to prove to the world that we can live like anyone in the developed first. We "Likkle but Tallawah" … Not that the world really cares, because no matter how we borrow their money to import their rubbish, they will always regard us as an Impoverished little Third World country. Our over the top importation of Hennessy, Samsung, Range Rover and now ATL will have its very own Apple Store fitted with Apple Genius Bar seems to give us a sense of achievement. All this while the exchange r...