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“Language is in part a universal human factor and in part a factor of place” this statement makes me think of how we as humans are the same but yet so different when it comes to our language. For example, here in Grenada we have this stigma (distinct language) between people from the country side (St.Patrick’s) and people from the town (St.George’s). “Recognize speakers from outside their community by their speech”. Someone from the country side will speak more dialect than someone from the town and someone from the town will speak “not restricted to use of a single language” because in the town people consider themselves as speaking standard English, considering they live on the tourism belt. Roberts stated that “a sound is in essence what language or variety of language they speak”. Many Caribbean islands national language is English because of the colonial ties with Britain. For example, if a tourist comes to Grenada; the taxi men and other people that come in contract with the tourist will know the nationality of that tourist base on their accent, for instance, if it’s a British tourist the taxi man will put on a British accent or if it’s an American the taxi man will put on an American accent. This is not a good way to appreciate our ‘own’ language because the tourist might not even be able to understand what you are saying and this is why we as Caribbean people need to hold on to wants ours and pass it on from generation to generation. As Roberts mention “while behavior may in some objective way be the best criterion for judging sameness, it is the sense of sight (colour/race) and sound (language) that provide the initial and usually most deep-seated conclusions about sameness and difference in identity”.

“The Antilles: Fragment of Epic Memory” written by Derek Walcott tells us of how the Caribbean move from a history of violence to what it is today. He mentions how the “Caribbean culture is not evolving but already shaped” (Walcott, 1992) and “its proportions are not to be measured by the traveler or the exile, but by its own citizenry and architecture” (Walcott, 1992). Which is true because when foreign looks at “postcard” they see blue sea, drinks with umbrella and they don’t see the true nature of the island, the ‘real’ history of the Caribbean. Walcott talks about how in Trinidad, the Indian people, reenact the Hindu Epic the Ramayana in the small village of felicity that shows the collective memory of its people which is the essence of human experience which goes way beyond any history that can be found in books.

After reading and internalizing “The Antilles: Fragment of Epic Memory”, I agree with Walcott on one fact, which I think has been plaguing us in the Caribbean for some time now and it still is going on even if many efforts are being place in school to teach us about ‘our’ history and not too much about the European history. As Walcott stated “Every endeavor is belittled as imitation, from architecture to music” for example, in Grenada the government is introducing to its school curriculum, consume making, with the intention of passing on some of our history to the youth. Today most of the youth are straying towards the first world culture. For instance, you would not fine a kid playing some of the 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。