I agree. I know it’s late, but I just ran into this article. After trying to discover more music coming from Jamaica, it seems the landscape and culture might be changing. And though I just watch from a laptop in California, USA, I sense that change is happening and it’s cultivating a new Jamaica. As an avid Reggae listener, I cannot help but wonder if Jamaica is allowing herself to change? Have the rootsmen given up? Do most of their youth have respect for traditions and teachings – not just of Jamaica, but their holy land? After all, it is not only Jamaica changing, but the entire world, it seems. More nations are becoming commercialized and scholars know traditions and culture can get lost in the shuffle, as well as in the priorities of the youth; therefore, what is Jamaica teaching its youth? What country is Jamaica, the US, Israel and Ethopia planning to leave for its youth? We have to give the youth a fighting chance, after all. But, instead of a fighting chance, maybe it can be a more peaceful and unified one. By unified, does this mean to allow the dominant one to succeed? I hope not because capitalism is not peaceful. In fact, capitalism is competitive and we do not want competitive societies, we want cooperative ones. Therefore, we must decide what traditions we will keep sacred, while also allowing opportunity to knock on our door. Does this mean selling out, or buying in? No matter what one chooses, we must never lose our true selves while getting caught in the shuffle. We must know, breathe, and honor our roots, while still being open to new and different. I just hope Jamaica maintains this. -Love, Light, and Blessings

in Jesus name,
old white preacher corporation

It’s true man curvey we have to inherited our hist

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