Jamaican mannerisms
published: Wednesday | July 23, 2003
THE EDITOR, Sir:
THIS YEAR, after an absence of two years, I plan to visit lovely Jamaica for the 18th time. Some of my friends question why I go to Jamaica, especially in the summer time. I have been in Jamaica in January, April and early September but I prefer July.
I have been on the beach in Montego Bay when all the Jamaican teens get out of school. After teaching teens in Chicago for 35 years, I could only wish they were as polite and well mannered as their Jamaican counterparts. I have had a few polite teens in Chicago in my classes but I learned that most of them were Jamaican.
I live in a country where the president did not receive a majority vote and in a city where election laws prevent anyone from running against the incumbent. And I still get questions about political unrest in Jamaica.
