Zed posted:Django posted:Zed posted:I am learning so much on this thread, about all this stuff posted and about who is posting.
Some questions. Why deny people the labels they use to define themselves. I am certain those labels are many. So one can be Guyanese Indian. I say that I am Indian and black. Many say that they are Indian meaning that they are East Indian or if East Indian background. Why use this to say that they are denying that they are Guyanese. To further your own political agenda? Also, those who say that they are Indians, maybe a closer affinity to India, maybe ask why? Why that sense of closeness to India. Why is it that many East Indians question their conditions in Guyana?
Furthermore, if we accept the diversity of cultures within Guyana, and one group actively propagates its culture and tradition, understanding that that culture has changed over time, why define it as being clannish.. Is it because a particular group has totally accepted another's culture and have forgotten its own? What is the political agenda?
Maybe or maybe not,my personnel take one defines himself or herself firstly by their genes and secondly by their nationality,anything wrong with that ??,regarding other genetic make up i see all as humans,there is space for all of us.
"I mentioned i am Indian and proudly stated was born in Guyana,my great grand parents were East Indian Indentured Immigrants."
So am i not Guyanese of East Indian parentage or vice versa.Personally i have no affinity to India,to each his own.
I spent yesterday teaching my grandson the difference between fact and opinion and that people are free to have their own opinions. At least he got it. Some problems now for his parents because he will tell them when it is their opinion.
Now I am worried. You said that one defines himself or herself firstly by their genes. At the end you defined yourself firstly as Guyanese of East Indian parentage. What does being Guyanese have to do with genes?
I mentioned define one self firstly genes secondly nationality,sorry if there are any confusion in my view of ones identity,I also mentioned vice versa
My view is people can choose how the define themselves,in multicultural societies sometimes people tends to define themselves by their ethnicity and nationality,in the ole USA we may hear Italian American,Irish American,African American,Asian American,when all is said and done they are Americans.