I agree wholeheartedly with much of Iva Rolle's letter 'Peddling 'badmanism' ' and would like to expand on it.

Recently, I saw a Jamaican comedy featuring some of our finest talents. It was clearly a film of a live performance and the audience was not dancehall patrons but rather Kingston's intelligentsia, its theatre-going class.

How they rolled with mirth when a line such as 'A gwine slit yuh throat like a goat' were delivered. Another line that played well was about 'acid yuh face'. A society must be truly desensitised to the horror of killing and maiming when the slitting of throats and 'aciding' of faces can elicit glee.

The Jamaican 'haves' have shunted the blame for the ills of the society onto the 'have-nots', taking no culpability for their own contribution. To hear it told, the tail wags the Jamaican dog.

I am, etc.,

Doreen McGann

doreenmcgann@hotmail.com

Stockholm, Sweden