Isn't a beautiful feeling when we see our Jamaican children dressed in their Jamaican colours with their smiling faces. It really is a beautiful sight but the sadness always comes to the fore front for me. Our children know little or nothing about our culture. They find it boring but they lose themselves in the culture of other countries. Something needs to be done to ensure that our children are fully aware of the Jamaican culture. If something isn't done what kind of future will we expect for our island? Who will be the story tellers, the folk singers? Everybody wants to sing songs of foreign lands but don't even know the words for our own native songs.
The hard work of those who paved the way for us is quickly being erased. Many tourists to our shores are more knowledgable about our island than most of us are and they do this without losing the knowledge of their own home lands. Schools need to make Jamaican history compulsory in schools. Children should have to be taught about the history of their island. Parents also have a part to play by ensuring that they make the upbringing of their children reflective of the Jamaican culture. The young generation of Jamaicans aren't aware of the deep historical roots of many of the things that they practice currently. When the older generations dies out the Jamaican history will be buried with them. It's not enough to have the buildings to visit and the documents to look at. We need to have the knowledge in our heads. We need to practice it and enjoy it every single day. The future of Jamaica depends on how much of our culture we remember today.
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