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Reply to "Fleeing hard times –Guyanese living in Venezuela returning home."

RiffRaff posted:

There are people who have looked down on cane cutters in Guyana....actually, even your family sometimes say to you.."Bai, why yuh dont tek yuh education, wha yuh want be, wan canecutta?"

 

I think you are confused here. My parents did not want us to be struggling doing back breaking work. I have gone in the cane fields while the cane cutters were working. I have seen the black soot sticking on their sweating necks and faces, I have seen the sweat leaking down their faces. I did not want to do that job. My father and brothers did that job. Does that mean everyone people looked down on my brothers? I don't think so. If that was the case, no father and mother would want their daughter(s) marrying a cane cutter. It's a job and someone would have to do it. Without that job, thousands of people would be struggling.

FM
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