Bleaching your skin

Some Jamaican people are convinced that white people have all the advantages in the world. They believe that white people get jobs easier, earn the highest salaries and attract handsome and wealthy people. But there’s one little problem with the people of Jamaica with an (“African decent”- dark skin, thick hair) there are about four shades darker than the typical white person and just barely graces the (“browning”- light skin completion, soft hair) category among there black people.
There perception is that the fairer you are, the more likely one is to become successful socially, economically and romantically. So to solve this problem they use a bleaching cream which lighten the skin completion. Dr. Neil Persadsingh, a leading Jamaican dermatologist says that there are “2.6 million complaints about People, skin bleaching and the problem is that many people misuse by overuse skin lightening creams, which are prescribed at low doses to correct uneven pigmentation. These creams work by killing melanin, the substance that lends skin its pigmentation and protects the skin from the cancer-causing ultraviolet rays of the sun. All people have melanin in their skin the more melanin present, the darker the skin”.
Many of the symthems that Victims will suffer from is nausea, shortness of breath, convulsions and delirium. Damage to the skin – wrinkles, and severe acne. Skin bleaching is just as popular as keeping afloat with a popular fashion trend. Many youngsters who have started belching were influence by the older people in the community. Bleaching your skin evoked mixed reactions from the opposite sex. Some of will say it look pretty and you should continue and Some will make fun and say you look like a monkey and call you ‘black-white.
This bleaching trend is psychology for social acceptance, more opportunities, and improved self-image, is already epidemic. From as young as 10 year old to as old as 40 years of age are bleaching ther sking so they are “ social Accepted”.

Carnival In T & T

Trinidad and Tabago carnival is celebrated every year two days before ash wensday As with other Carnivals, many participants wear elaborate costumes, often decorated with feathers and sequins. Carnival "bands" are organized groups made up of participants who pay for costumes fashioned by a designer and assembled by teams of volunteers. The costumed participants dance through the streets to the sounds of a steel band, a soca band or a d.j. - this is called "playing mas'". A unique feature of this parade is that locals and tourists alike participate in the parade of bands. Each band is led by a King and Queen, who wear extremely large costumes, often requiring extensions and wheels to assist the masquerader to carry it through the streets.

Each year at 4 am on Monday, Carnival begins under a cloak of darkness. Fuelled by exhilaration and the energetic rhythms of soca music, revellers take to the streets for the predawn party of J'Ouvert. J'Ouvert (from the French 'jour ouvert' or 'day open') is almost ritualistic in its celebration of the darker elements of the island's folklore and history. Bathed in chocolate, mud, oil and paint, bands of revellers depict devils, demons, monsters and imps. Choose your medium of expression; J'Ouvert is a time for loosening of inhibitions.

Trinidad Carnival is the model for carnivals elsewhere in the Caribbean, and for cities as far away as Toronto, New York, Miami and London. In Trinidad, Port of Spain is naturally the biggest venue, but smaller versions of the festival take place in communities across the island. Anyone can take part just by signing up.

I belive Trinidad has the best canival, but in new york we have some thing close to it but we celebrate it as labor day. unlike trinidad new york carnival has a lot of restriction so to me it not as fun , in the islands we are allowed to rome free and party 24 7 .

Today Trinidad's model for public celebration is the most widely imitated festival art form in the world. Many Trinidadian Carnival artists are able to work year round performing throughout North America, Europe, and the Caribbean. Yet despite this success, many believe the best is yet to come. It will be up to the natives to take this to another level.

Usain Bolt Olympic winner

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Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt continues to impress judges as he improves his winning 100m performance, running out of lane five Bolt won the race at the university of the west indies, Bolts coach Glen Mills said that the inprovemet was expected and Bolt was on point with his training in his world championship season.

Bolt he think that he was behind in his traing compared to last year because of travel, and other distractions as a result from his Olympic heroics in August. Bolt has many compations to enter including the Jamican international Invitational. Bolt have an extreamly large fan base , more than 3,000 fans came out to support him on his last race. Bolt The Olympic winner who set the world record in the 100m gold in 9.69 seconds and the 200m title in 19.30 and then helping jamaica to 4*100m relay gold..

I am very prod of Usain Bolt because i felt that he pu Jamaica on the Map! The reaction that jamaica showed when he won the gold was beautlful, the streets was flooded with happy supporters, and was one of the happiest moment that jamaica ever had.

DANCEHALL

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Each of the highlighted words in this will bring you to a you tube video if u can handle it watch it!!

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Dancehall also know as Bashment started in the 1970's in Jamaica, the dancehall culture is a combination of social injustice , repatriation, lyrics about dancing , violence and explicit sexuality. This culture is where you can also experience live music, clashes, rivals, head to head sound systems and live audience.

Dancehall is predominately made for the youths and lower class citizens, this helped many youths distinct there identity in local, national and global context. thought dancehall the youth attempted to deal with endemic problem of property, racism, and violence.

The culture of dancehall has also transform into a fashion trend , women or the "divas of dancehall" would wear reveling pieces of cloth that can hardly be called garments, spandex outfits that extenuate more than cover one nakedness its is said that the influence of slack lyrics within dancehall started this trend. Another trend in this culture is the exceeding important of flashy vehicles and size of each gang.

the new phenomenon is expensive casual wear, including dancehall thought out Italy, Germany, japan and other west Indian islands. Dancehall has spawned to make parties and stage performances more energetic and i am extremely happy to see the growth, but their are concerns about how the youth perceive the culture of dancehall. Parents should be cautioned about this culture.

MY View

I am a person that is very involved with dancehall I love going to stage show and seeing my favorite artist preform although they have slack lyrics I never take what they say latterly. There are also dance moves that I have seen when women are flung to the floor and a man would jump on top and start thrusting themselves as if there were in a bed room, that's just taking it to far! in my opinion I would never let a man disrespect my body like that but these ladies who are allowing the men to do so simply see it as entertainment. Now many of the dances and song in dancehall are actually being band from show and other public events. This action which the government has take is a step in the right direction because i think people are using site of what dancehall is/ was. At the end of the day it is about haveing fun and enjoying yourself the best way you know how!

here are some dances and video that have came from dancehall!

heel-toe
blazay-blazay
pon the river
pon the bank
dutty wine
hot wok
nuh linga

Did You Know? NOPE! i sure didnt

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Xenophobia- an intense dislike or fare of people from other countries.

I wouldn't say that we have a fare of these people from other countries but i do belive they intimidate our society. Its not a surprise to me that people/students from other countries are ahead of the US in terms of technology and education. I feel its there style learning which allows the people/ students to have higher IQ's and a better education compared to students/people in the US. The high IQ's may explain why they have such an advance gap in technology, i always thought of Japan, and China as an advance the largest technical countries because it seem as if every thing was made from those countries (who would relly but some thing that said MADE IN THE USA?). I don't see these countries as fare but as intimidation, they do have a larger poppulation.

This video compares to SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE INTERNET by DiMaggio, it shows the mass media in technology and how fast it is growing among our society. The video show that it took 38 years for radio,13 years for TV, 3 years for Ipod, and 2 years for Facebook to reach a market audience of 50 million. I imagine that the number of years will continue to drop as new technologys are relicsed it will go from years to months, months to weeks and weeks to days may be even days to hours.

This video also spoke about a super computer which will exceed the computational capabilities of the human brain and the human species. this is what i believe they call Artificial Intelligence (A.I)! i think people should fare the use of (A.I) more than Xenophobia. In many of the movies that portrays the future have (A.I) robots doing jobs that we do today. Think about it! why would large corporations take money out their pocket to pay us when they can just program (A.I) robots to do it for free.

Technology has come a long way and still have much more room to develop and it is also a very important asset to our society, so training/teaching the children of the future advance materials is beneficial to our live and the live of the future. knowing how to handle and eliminate problems of the future can benefit us all.

CARICOM

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The Caribbean Community (CARICOM), is an organization of 15 Caribbean nations and dependencies. CARICOM's main purposes are to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members, to ensure that the benefits of integration are equitably shared, and to coordinate foreign policy. Its major activities involve coordinating economic policies and development planning; devising and instituting special projects for the less-developed countries within its jurisdiction; operating as a regional single market for many of its members, handling regional trade disputes. The Secretariat headquarters is based-in Georgetown. CARICOM Currently has 15 full members: Antigua and Barbuda (4 July 1974) Bahamas (4 July 1983) (not part of customs union) Barbados (1 August 1973) Belize (1 May 1974) Dominica (1 May 1974) Grenada (1 May 1974) Guyana (1 August 1973) Haiti (provisional membership on 4 July 1998, full membership on 2 July 2002) Jamaica (1 August 1973) Montserrat (a territory of the United Kingdom) (1 May 1974) Saint Kitts and Nevis (26 July 1974 as Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla) Saint Lucia (1 May 1974) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1 May 1974) Suriname (4 July 1995) Trinidad and Tobago (1 August 1973)
CARICOM has helped many of these countries with financial situation and other sectors that are fragile the recession has effected all countries world wide and the CARICOM community is trying there best in these time to help there countries carry on through these difficult times.

the modern day Ike and Tina

The Chris Brown Rihanna fight, According sources The fight started when Chris brown was driving leaving from a party. He got a phone call from a girl , and Rihanna saw the number on his cell phone. Apparently, Rihanna recognized who it was because Rihanna knew that he had been messing around with this girl and it was causing a lot of heated arguments between the two. I honestly feel that this is story being blown out of proportion cause honestly if they weren't famous how many people would care? don't get me wrong its never OK to put your hand on a woman no matter what the situation is but the media is just firing people up.