of Jamaicans retain some elements of this same cultural dysfunction. Because cultural inheritance, like genetic inheritance, can pass its characteristics on through either parent or presumably stepparents, grandparents or other affected family members, it increases the likelihood that someone who carries this negative trait would be present in a child’s life to successfully model this behavior.
But, who is to “blame” for all this, shall we say, cultural dysfunction? It is certainly not the group of Jamaicans I lived with, no, but the “white man.” It was Europeans who chose to engage in the slave trade. They captured or paid others to capture these slaves, ruin their lives and families, chained them up and transported them under horrific conditions from which countless died. They then sold them into servitude for generations and committed atrocities, all in the name of profit. They barred them from using their native languages and taught them an inferior English dialect, forbade them to practice their cultural inheritance, songs or religion. They are the ones who initiated the repeating cycles of abuse and suffering that have continued to this day.
So I do have some group to blame for this atrocity and it is me, my name, my people. Any just God would damn us all for not setting this straight! I see the enemy and he is me. Jamaica, however, is only one example of cultural dysfunction syndrome. There are so many more. Most of them have a single uniting root cause, money! Enslaving our fellow humans is big business and although we no longer call slaves, slaves, there are slaves none the less.
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