5 Reasons Jamaican Culture Is the Most Popular Per Capita
Jamaican Patois becoming the youth language of choice in larger countries
In some parts of England and Toronto Canada, a dialect heavy with Jamaican and Afro-Caribbean inflections is being spoken by a significant portion of the youth population. British linguists are calling it “multicultural youth English,” or MYE.
Jamaican Creole, or JamC , what the academics are now calling the patois native to Jamaica, has become the dialect employed not just by the children of Jamaican immigrants, but also by second-generation West Indians of other national origins (i.e. of Trinidadian, Grenadian, Guyanese, etc. parentage) and simultaneously by Black youth of various African heritage. For British-born, urban Black people, JamC became a code used as a marker of Black identity with sociolinguistic functions similar to African-American vernacular English in the United States.
Soon after, even young white people of local, English origins started adopting JamC into their linguistic practices. Reportedly, many of those urban British-born adolescents who showed the highest levels of JamC competence had no Afro-Caribbean family background at all. The same phenomenon is being observed among the youth in Canada, primarily in the city of Toronto, which has a large Jamaican population. [ Read more ]
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It follows that Indian Chinese and Arab culture will ‘interact’
‘influence‘ future generations of urban future youths.
UK claims to be a ‘multicultural’ society but it would take
generations to achieve that goal. ‘Prejudice’ ‘class’ ‘religion’
the stumbling block…..not as before ‘race’s or ‘colour’….
The future is bright
The future is colourful
It is up to the political class to speed up this natural phenomenon.
My spin
Optimistically
Kamtan
On Sunday, 10 August, I was listening to G98.7 – The Way We Groove, the only black radio station in Canada, with the Jamaican-born owner, Fitzroy Gordon – Mister G engaging in discussions with Jamaica Minister of Tourism and the Jamaican Director of Tourism promoting Reggae Month February 2015. If you are looking for a good time and a break from the cold in February or for whatever reason?? Exciting and stimulating exchanges.
Interesting development.