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ves of a fruit seamed by own bitter juice, that exiled from your own Edens you have placed me in the wonder of another, and that was my heritance and your gift”. Walcott have both African and European in him and he claims both heritage and not one over the other but embracing of both cultures. Braithwaite’s view which I think don’t apply in this global village but Walcott views pin point the direction that is being taking today as Coombs stated, “black people have begun not only to probe their commonality, but to understand that the shibboleths that separate us.

 

There are “Many of the more serious thinkers of these islands who want to usher in a just society, who wants to abolish privileges based on race or class” (Coombs, 1974). In the Caribbean we are still, sort of “under the slave master” mentally because once islanders make a valuable contribution to the island “their ideas are not analyzed, but they themselves are put under a blaze of lights and their foibles and weaknesses exposed”(Coombs,1974. With this type of mentality by islanders the island development will remind one place and not move forward but floats around like a piece of plank for all eternity. May be this due to the fact that “Cultural juggernaut” has penetrate our minds more then we think and it will and lot of education of our people and take us out of this illusion that America is better than us.

 

In conclusion, I think that Coombs effectively displays a lot of the problems that we are faced with in the Caribbean. Among them, the inequality between men and women and how men still dominate and have high positions in society. However, in recent years, you will find women graduating with degrees and earning high positions in society. This clearly shows that woman are rising out of the mentally that women should be seen and not heard. Brathwaite and Walcott stand on their Africanness and Europeanness and for the many struggles that are still being fought by black thinkers to unshackle us from the “neo-colonialism” that still is with us today.

 

West Indians and their Language

 

“West Indians and Their Language” by Peter Roberts highlighted how geography, politically, definition, history and culture connects the West Indies language. The term “West Indian” as define by Roberts, it confers on the people of many different islands an identity or homogeneity which all of them do not want to be associated with (Roberts, n.d.). The term “West Indies”, does not have a precise meaning or definition but Roberts gives a general meaning” it refers to the very same islands or territories” (Roberts, n.d.). Roberts made mention of how geography and politics influence the “West Indies” connectively. Geographically, the islands are separated into the “Greater Antilles and the “Lesser Antilles” there were separated because of the size of the islands and the distance from each other. Politically, the ‘West Indies’ European policy determined the entities in the Caribbean by creating great distances or close links between the islands regardless of their actual distance from each other (Roberts, n本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。