that was hillarious :shaky:

Hey ugly toad what dose it take to get you out of this tread.

Hallelujah Amen!



fools love company.

a1000... you say you want discussion about how we have no culture and must now go about 'creating' some form of culture... and apparently you think you are some kind of authority that has the depth of mind to direct this endeavor but you come off as a self-important, and yet self-hating, not to mention nauseatingly verbose numbskull... it amazes me that you cannot see the culture that does abound in the bahamas... maybe you haven't been in a while... or maybe you were shut off from the real bahamian experience while here... that's unfortunate...
only bahamians do it the way bahamians do it... we have our very own and unique ways of preparing foods, worshipping, celebrating various occasions and socializing with one another... also in the way that we govern ourselves, regardless of its flaws (and don't give me any foolishness about majority rule & 1967 blah blah blah because the black bahamian people of this country had leaders amongst themselves during colonialism)... rite down to the way we speak... even if we take american or jamaican slang, we almost always bahamianize it phonetically, and the context changes... there's even a way to sweetheart that's all bahamian... all of it, the good, the bad and the OGLY, is our culture... geez... i haven't even said anything as for music and arts and crafts.... i won't, b/c i'll go off on a tangent... the fact of the matter is that all of these things vary slightly from island to island, community to community, family to family, but they are all immediately recognized by bahamians as bahamian.... you could be a black, white or asian bahamian reading mao's writings in beijing and overhear 'i'n ga lie, i was divin more conch jes nah, muddoz' and you KNOOOOOOOW that another bahamian is present and knows perfectly well about the traffic coming out of the east in the mornings, sheep tongue souse, regatta time, whether their family is historically plp or fnm, what strongback is for and exactly WHO in da mornin!!
yes, there are things that we have lost due to consumerism and 'technological advancement' and colonialism and globalisation but change is the only thing that is constant in this universe... and there are reasons for these changes... it is up to the individual, and in this case, the bahamian, to recognize and understand those things that are and those which are not unique to the bahamas... it is the duty of the bahamian to preserve our cultural roots while keeping up with what is going on in the world around us...
it sickens me to see and hear ppl like you trying to push this idea that we have no culture and nothing going for ourselves... it feels like you are trying to take all the joy and laughter and pain and love and hate and everything that makes us who we are and erase it!! you make it your business to try and confuse the impressionable mind into thinking whatever you say is true by virtue of the fact that you used your entire vocabulary, dictionary.com and an incredible talent of regurgitation to say it... and what's more you have the audacity to attack the users of this by calling them blockheads and writing off anything that they say as garbage.... u caan be no real bahamian no how.... cuz den u wudda call dem HARDHEAD #1, HARDHEAD #2, HARDHEAD #3...................................................................




Look Block head if you had read the thread in its entirety you would be aware of the fact that what you have written here is not culture, in fact you have done exactly as i predicted. Actually i am qualified to write on this subject more so than any one else in this place. why dont5 you do me a favor and stop with the verbal garbage, you have no clue as to what you are talking about..........................

dont you be callin tadfadhali a blockhead you freaking a$$hole - you need to crawl back into your slimy fungusy hole! :mad:
HMmmmmmmmmm!

:bigmouth: :D
m'bui... u haven't said anything yet.... i thought perry was bad....



lol!!

Hey ugly toad what dose it take to get you out of this tread.


hey slime bucket, nipple face, pickle head, oh ye nastiest little zit of the land of clint, the namaste sucker, the blockhead lover, here ye, here ye, i dun left this tread long time now .. :p

Greetings! Let's be civil. 1st, a1000. I believe that u are expounding too much at one time for some people to digest. Also, you must be able to communicate in layman's term regarding your points. Everyone needs to stop name calling and labeling. This occurs when one doesn't understands another's viewpoint. a1000 is expounding certain views yet I have not heard any intellectual counter arguments. I hear labeling and childish name calling. I understand that this is bahamas issues (no, I am not from the Bahamas), but what do Bahamas eat? Where does Bahamians' ideas originate? What do Bahamians drive? My point is that we all (no matter where u are on this earth) utitlize other ethnic group views, resources, and commodities. I believe a1000 is utilizing certain principles from socialiat China (not communism). Each person has a right to agree or disagree, but what is the counter argument. I thought this group was about bringing up the Bahamas. It's apparent that whats in place now doesn't work otherwise this group wouldn't exist. :sarcastic

To the Jedi and the eternal enemies of the Empire, I say "may the force be with you", english words meaning "may the force be with you" a greeting of salutation and hidden code of Lucasites. It has been a cold light year but I feel a swelling in my loins when I consider the elementary haunting of Leah's ear muffling cinnamon rolls and gold "Jabbaesque" attire primarily reserved for bathing. For you android1000's I extend my heartfelt "beep, beep, whistle, beep, whistle" as I know you best understand the binary attraction of electrons approaching C through copper conduit, insulated from other similar yet different conduits by a thin polymer insulation coating.
To the Eighth Rendition of comrades, of which there is only a select few designated by the insane, let me share my confidence that we will ultimately win the battle against mental disfigurement and succeed in our campaign to ensure that the proletariat and aristocracy further the goal of our great-great-great-great-great-great grandfathers: to reverse the force of gravity and turn our bodies inside out so our skin doesn't wrinkle so much.
To the Flipmodians and those that block our heads by cut-n-pasting google searches on dead Orientals I extend the royal raspberry in your general direction. As the great Montgomery Python once said during a search for the Holy Chalice before using the Holy Handgrenade of Antioch, "your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries".
Despite the definition provided by the Sandilander, namaste simply means "I bow to you" and has nothing to do with "honoring the place in you where the universe resides the place of truth, justice and love". It infers that the gesturer honors the Almighty within the recipient, but isn't defined as that.
As a mental masturbatory student of terminal thinking though checkers, I think back to my teacher and giver of all knowledge, Oscar T. Grouch. Through his spoken word media outlet he reminds us all that we must think outside of the can, but at lease 3 poops a day, and that today's message was brought to us by the letter C.
I think I'm going to fast from the internet for an hour or so now. My God complex is overwhelming me and I might have to change my conscience after my midday :wipe: .



To the Ancestors, the Seventh Generation,The Bahamas Issues Community, My peeps in Flipmode Squad, Delroy Even tho we don’t agree on many issues, for having the foresight to create this space, My radical Lefty friends, those granola bar crunching dirt worshipping tree hugging hippies i stand strong among you, Those block heads you know who you are so i wont call you out this time, and those just reading visiting this place for the first time i salute you with the concept.( see post# 28 in Re: The Essential Theory And Praxis Of National Culture for clarification on Affirmation and Acknowledgements)

Namaste: A Hindi word meaning I honor the Place in you where the universe resides the place of peace, love of truth and Justice, and when you are there and i am there we are one.

Now if you happen to be like casual observer and you think you had enough namaste; you need some more, really take a deep breath and think about the full implication of the concept Namaste, the place of peace, love, truth and justice what would you give to be at that place? when you have a Block Head (Please see post #11 in Re: The Essential Theory And Praxis Of National Culture for an explanation of the term Blockhead) saying that they had enough Namaste you know that they have lost their mind. just a few more diversions before I get to the main point if you will.

Why its gotten cold here, they are predicting snow in the valley, i have money that it dose not happen but they say it every day on the news stations because they know that people panic and go to the grocery store and buy more food, i wonder if Pavlov was patterned cause his estate would be super wealthy by now, you know or may be you don’t know, the condition response work, dogs and the ringing bell, i am trying my own conditional response work as a Bahamian i am calling it critical thinking response, here is how it works any time some one respond to you or me, what we do is count to one thousand and think about exactly what the response mean, then we respond with a request for more information until the subject is as clear as possible then we craft a response aint that cool. So after slapping Casual observer around intellectually that is, i think that even he will be able to respond critically, but with block heads you just have to hit them continuously with critical thinking until they are KO (knocked out intellectually that is and that is what happens in this thread). The Aikido of mental combat is a must for all Bahamians may be i should design a class i will think about that, but i am on a long tangent a circle and i am going to get back to the point i just need to introduce some levity to a very heavy topic, even a Flipmodian must dance, and celebrate from time to time. Ah here is the memory that i was searching for, well about a month ago i was at the mall teaching and promoting chess. I have a personal standard that if you know nothing about the game in 15 minutes i could take you through all the pieces and the language of chess, in 30 minutes to and hour i can give you the ability to understand some of the finesses of the game.The universe intervened i had this young man Knew nothing about the game I started with the king since you can derive the other piece movement from the king. well we made it through the king to bishop, rook and then he started to forget, complete and utter shut down. But being a Flipmodian I take on all challenges, but it did not work his attention span was to short and with all the activities in the mall it was to much for him. He was/is learning challenge, in the old days we use to say retarded, you know; he reminded me of Rory.

Alright the tofu, mix veggies and spaghetti is ready to be eaten, i shall take a break and get back to this important subject and you can eat what ever it is that you plan on eating. The saga continues, I was hesitant about writing about such a complex issue but as i was addressing points of it in the thread Bahamian student Seeks employment and The thread armed police in school i decided that i should just consolidate the spirit of this subject here, as this is also the subject of my dissertation will give me a chance to work through it at my leisure and at the same time share with you. How many intellectuals do that? will come to your back yard and chew the fat so to speak.( conversation). As i began writing and thinking, fellowshipping with the ancestors, sitting at the feet of the elders, living in the community and being a part of the community It dawned on me just how massive a task this is to kick out across the net, and to do it correct. Therefore as Dido plays in the back ground I am going create an open ended index at this junction of the materials that i am employing in this discussion. Feel free to add your Material as this is an open ended discussion but there are guide lines see post# 11 Re: The Essential Theory And Praxis Of National Culture for the sprit of this discussion

Index of The Essential Theory And Praxis Of National Culture:

Christopher Columbus & the African Holocaust By Dr. John Henrik Clarke

Unlimited Power A Black Choice by Anthony Robins & Joseph McClendon 111

African Presence In The Americas Fulcrums Of Change By Jan Carew

Pedagogy Of The Oppressed By Paulo Freire

From Global Capitalism To Economic Justice An Inquiry into the Elimination of systemic Poverty, Violence and Environmental Destruction in the World Economy by Arjun Makhijani

The African Personality in America: An African-Centered FrameWork By Kobi Kazembe Kalongi Kambon

Return TO The African Mother Principle Of Male and Female Equality Volume 1 by Oba T'Shaka

Who Betrayed The African World Revolution And Other Speeches By John Henrik Clarke

The Destruction Of Black Civilization great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D. By Chancellor Williams

Slavery In The Bahamas 1648-1838 By Gail Saunders

Brain Power Learn To Improve Your Thinking Skills by Karl Albrecht

Civilization Or Barbarism An Authentic Anthropology By Cheikh Anta Diop

9-11 by Noam Choamsky

Yurugo An African-Centered Critique Of European Cultural Thought And Behavior by Marimba Ani

The Grand Chessboard American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives by Zbigniew Brzezinski

Creating A New World Economy Forces of Change and Plans for Action edited by Gerald Epstein, Julie Graham and Jessica Nembhard

The Wealth Of Nations By Adam Smith


The Art Of Leadership volume 1 and 2 by Oba T Shaka

The Lost Art Of War, Sun TZU 11 Translated with commentary by Thomas Cleary

To the Ancestors, the Seventh Generation,The Bahamas Issues Community, My peeps in Flipmode Squad, Delroy Even tho we don’t agree on many issues, for having the foresight to create this space, My radical Lefty friends, those granola bar crunching dirt worshipping tree hugging hippies i stand strong among you, Those block heads you know who you are so i wont call you out this time, and those just reading visiting this place for the first time i salute you with the concept.( see post# 28 in Re: The Essential Theory And Praxis Of National Culture for clarification on Affirmation and Acknowledgements)
Namaste: A Hindi word meaning I honor the Place in you where the universe resides the place of peace, love of truth and Justice, and when you are there and i am there we are one.
Now if you happen to be like casual observer and you think you had enough namaste; you need some more, really take a deep breath and think about the full implication of the concept Namaste, the place of peace, love, truth and justice what would you give to be at that place? when you have a Block Head (Please see post #11 in Re: The Essential Theory And Praxis Of National Culture for an explanation of the term Blockhead) saying that they had enough Namaste you know that they have lost their mind. just a few more diversions before I get to the main point if you will.
Why its gotten cold here, they are predicting snow in the valley, i have money that it dose not happen but they say it every day on the news stations because they know that people panic and go to the grocery store and buy more food, i wonder if Pavlov was patterned cause his estate would be super wealthy by now, you know or may be you don’t know, the condition response work, dogs and the ringing bell, i am trying my own conditional response work as a Bahamian i am calling it critical thinking response, here is how it works any time some one respond to you or me, what we do is count to one thousand and think about exactly what the response mean, then we respond with a request for more information until the subject is as clear as possible then we craft a response aint that cool. So after slapping Casual observer around intellectually that is, i think that even he will be able to respond critically, but with block heads you just have to hit them continuously with critical thinking until they are KO (knocked out intellectually that is and that is what happens in this thread). The Aikido of mental combat is a must for all Bahamians may be i should design a class i will think about that, but i am on a long tangent a circle and i am going to get back to the point i just need to introduce some levity to a very heavy topic, even a Flipmodian must dance, and celebrate from time to time. Ah here is the memory that i was searching for, well about a month ago i was at the mall teaching and promoting chess. I have a personal standard that if you know nothing about the game in 15 minutes i could take you through all the pieces and the language of chess, in 30 minutes to and hour i can give you the ability to understand some of the finesses of the game.The universe intervened i had this young man Knew nothing about the game I started with the king since you can derive the other piece movement from the king. well we made it through the king to bishop, rook and then he started to forget, complete and utter shut down. But being a Flipmodian I take on all challenges, but it did not work his attention span was to short and with all the activities in the mall it was to much for him. He was/is learning challenge, in the old days we use to say retarded, you know; he reminded me of Rory.
Alright the tofu, mix veggies and spaghetti is ready to be eaten, i shall take a break and get back to this important subject and you can eat what ever it is that you plan on eating. The saga continues, I was hesitant about writing about such a complex issue but as i was addressing points of it in the thread Bahamian student Seeks employment and The thread armed police in school i decided that i should just consolidate the spirit of this subject here, as this is also the subject of my dissertation will give me a chance to work through it at my leisure and at the same time share with you. How many intellectuals do that? will come to your back yard and chew the fat so to speak.( conversation). As i began writing and thinking, fellowshipping with the ancestors, sitting at the feet of the elders, living in the community and being a part of the community It dawned on me just how massive a task this is to kick out across the net, and to do it correct. Therefore as Dido plays in the back ground I am going create an open ended index at this junction of the materials that i am employing in this discussion. Feel free to add your Material as this is an open ended discussion but there are guide lines see post# 11 Re: The Essential Theory And Praxis Of National Culture for the sprit of this discussion
Index of The Essential Theory And Praxis Of National Culture:
Christopher Columbus & the African Holocaust By Dr. John Henrik Clarke
Unlimited Power A Black Choice by Anthony Robins & Joseph McClendon 111
African Presence In The Americas Fulcrums Of Change By Jan Carew
Pedagogy Of The Oppressed By Paulo Freire
From Global Capitalism To Economic Justice An Inquiry into the Elimination of systemic Poverty, Violence and Environmental Destruction in the World Economy by Arjun Makhijani
The African Personality in America: An African-Centered FrameWork By Kobi Kazembe Kalongi Kambon
Return TO The African Mother Principle Of Male and Female Equality Volume 1 by Oba T'Shaka
Who Betrayed The African World Revolution And Other Speeches By John Henrik Clarke
The Destruction Of Black Civilization great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D. By Chancellor Williams
Slavery In The Bahamas 1648-1838 By Gail Saunders
Brain Power Learn To Improve Your Thinking Skills by Karl Albrecht
Civilization Or Barbarism An Authentic Anthropology By Cheikh Anta Diop
9-11 by Noam Choamsky
Yurugo An African-Centered Critique Of European Cultural Thought And Behavior by Marimba Ani
The Grand Chessboard American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives by Zbigniew Brzezinski
Creating A New World Economy Forces of Change and Plans for Action edited by Gerald Epstein, Julie Graham and Jessica Nembhard
The Wealth Of Nations By Adam Smith
The Art Of Leadership volume 1 and 2 by Oba T Shaka
The Lost Art Of War, Sun TZU 11 Translated with commentary by Thomas Cleary

wow! some of this stuff looks realy interesting! :tup:


















































too bad it comes from you, therefore losing all credibility in my view. :realmad:

wow! some of this stuff looks realy interesting! :tup:
too bad it comes from you, therefore losing all credibility in my view. :realmad:


:cheers: :D :shaky: :walk: :) :hammer: :friday:
LMAO!

wow! some of this stuff looks realy interesting! :tup:
too bad it comes from you, therefore losing all credibility in my view. :realmad:




See For yourself who made you ditzy post #39 read before you post some times:

Re: Bahamian Student Graduating in December seeks job.

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Originally Posted by YorickBrown
I would doubt that persons like Moon Angel would "agree" with your ban on overseas education. Without it, people like her would still be stuck in this country, unexposed and virtually uneducated in certain fields.
And as for your four questions, I've already discussed in a STRAIGHTFORWARD way, without cryptic psychobabble, why we need to continue learning from more advanced nations.
Do you really think that this country will survive without its citizens learning from those who have knowledge beyond our borders? One of the biggest problems that we have now is a glaring lack of global exposure in our private and public sectors. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to see that when more effective ways of doing things are made known, everyone benefits. Exposure to the world grants our people access to these globally efficient and effective ways of doing things.
You seem to desire locking this country down (like Castro does with Cuba) and controlling who learns what and from where they learn it. Mandating where our people get their education from is pure communism. Choice is key in a free society.
The biggest flaw in your "BAN" is that to begin implementing such a system we would have to bring in those who have this plethora of knowledge FROM ABROAD. Do you actually suggest that we implement a system where a Bahamian, who aims to become a doctor, is mandated to attend the "University of The Bahamas" - a place where they do not have access to the latest guidelines, procedures and medicines already designed and approved by INTERNATIONALLY regulated bodies? To add to that, if they do use these international standards, why wouldn't it just be easier to go ABROAD to learn the same thing.
A ban on overseas education? Man, you can't be serious.


ummm, ok i wasnt really following this topic, but i came across my name, so i thought i should have a little read! ok...yorick you make excellent points, but ones, (i thought) would be obvious to us all! im a huge advocate on living abroad and experiencing different cultures/meeting different people! i think its the only way to truly understand and respect those who may be 'different' from us, and it also provides excellent means of improving how we, as individuals, see things! this is necessary for our tiny insular country to grow!

Now i had to respond to Yorick's post because...quite frankly, a1000 - i simply cant respond to yours! too hard to read! you need to break it up man. i really CANNOT read your posts. i would like to get into the discussion. can you please, for everyone interested in this topic, use paragraphs and proper spacing @ least? also, it would be extremely helpful if you spoke in plain english for ditzes like me
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my my my...you're far more diligent than i dare give you credit for! good boy!:hammer:


See For yourself who made you ditzy post #39 read before you post some times:
Re: Bahamian Student Graduating in December seeks job.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by YorickBrown
I would doubt that persons like Moon Angel would "agree" with your ban on overseas education. Without it, people like her would still be stuck in this country, unexposed and virtually uneducated in certain fields.
And as for your four questions, I've already discussed in a STRAIGHTFORWARD way, without cryptic psychobabble, why we need to continue learning from more advanced nations.
Do you really think that this country will survive without its citizens learning from those who have knowledge beyond our borders? One of the biggest problems that we have now is a glaring lack of global exposure in our private and public sectors. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to see that when more effective ways of doing things are made known, everyone benefits. Exposure to the world grants our people access to these globally efficient and effective ways of doing things.
You seem to desire locking this country down (like Castro does with Cuba) and controlling who learns what and from where they learn it. Mandating where our people get their education from is pure communism. Choice is key in a free society.
The biggest flaw in your "BAN" is that to begin implementing such a system we would have to bring in those who have this plethora of knowledge FROM ABROAD. Do you actually suggest that we implement a system where a Bahamian, who aims to become a doctor, is mandated to attend the "University of The Bahamas" - a place where they do not have access to the latest guidelines, procedures and medicines already designed and approved by INTERNATIONALLY regulated bodies? To add to that, if they do use these international standards, why wouldn't it just be easier to go ABROAD to learn the same thing.
A ban on overseas education? Man, you can't be serious.
ummm, ok i wasnt really following this topic, but i came across my name, so i thought i should have a little read! ok...yorick you make excellent points, but ones, (i thought) would be obvious to us all! im a huge advocate on living abroad and experiencing different cultures/meeting different people! i think its the only way to truly understand and respect those who may be 'different' from us, and it also provides excellent means of improving how we, as individuals, see things! this is necessary for our tiny insular country to grow!
Now i had to respond to Yorick's post because...quite frankly, a1000 - i simply cant respond to yours! too hard to read! you need to break it up man. i really CANNOT read your posts. i would like to get into the discussion. can you please, for everyone interested in this topic, use paragraphs and proper spacing @ least? also, it would be extremely helpful if you spoke in plain english for ditzes like me
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a1000... you say you want discussion about how we have no culture and must now go about 'creating' some form of culture... and apparently you think you are some kind of authority that has the depth of mind to direct this endeavor but you come off as a self-important, and yet self-hating, not to mention nauseatingly verbose numbskull... it amazes me that you cannot see the culture that does abound in the bahamas... maybe you haven't been in a while... or maybe you were shut off from the real bahamian experience while here... that's unfortunate...
only bahamians do it the way bahamians do it... we have our very own and unique ways of preparing foods, worshipping, celebrating various occasions and socializing with one another... also in the way that we govern ourselves, regardless of its flaws (and don't give me any foolishness about majority rule & 1967 blah blah blah because the black bahamian people of this country had leaders amongst themselves during colonialism)... rite down to the way we speak... even if we take american or jamaican slang, we almost always bahamianize it phonetically, and the context changes... there's even a way to sweetheart that's all bahamian... all of it, the good, the bad and the OGLY, is our culture... geez... i haven't even said anything as for music and arts and crafts.... i won't, b/c i'll go off on a tangent... the fact of the matter is that all of these things vary slightly from island to island, community to community, family to family, but they are all immediately recognized by bahamians as bahamian.... you could be a black, white or asian bahamian reading mao's writings in beijing and overhear 'i'n ga lie, i was divin more conch jes nah, muddoz' and you KNOOOOOOOW that another bahamian is present and knows perfectly well about the traffic coming out of the east in the mornings, sheep tongue souse, regatta time, whether their family is historically plp or fnm, what strongback is for and exactly WHO in da mornin!!
yes, there are things that we have lost due to consumerism and 'technological advancement' and colonialism and globalisation but change is the only thing that is constant in this universe... and there are reasons for these changes... it is up to the individual, and in this case, the bahamian, to recognize and understand those things that are and those which are not unique to the bahamas... it is the duty of the bahamian to preserve our cultural roots while keeping up with what is going on in the world around us...
it sickens me to see and hear ppl like you trying to push this idea that we have no culture and nothing going for ourselves... it feels like you are trying to take all the joy and laughter and pain and love and hate and everything that makes us who we are and erase it!! you make it your business to try and confuse the impressionable mind into thinking whatever you say is true by virtue of the fact that you used your entire vocabulary, dictionary.com and an incredible talent of regurgitation to say it... and what's more you have the audacity to attack the users of this by calling them blockheads and writing off anything that they say as garbage.... u caan be no real bahamian no how.... cuz den u wudda call dem HARDHEAD #1, HARDHEAD #2, HARDHEAD #3...................................................................





Some times you just have to pick up that 2 by four of the veranda and go down in the valley and open that can of woopass on folks once in a while, but before I do that I must pay respect.

To the ancestors,
May they not be forgotten, and continue to guide us in these moments.
The Seventh Generation as I live that the world I leave behind will be a better one than the one I received.
The Elders.
Flipmode Squad my peeps who keep me on the path.
The community of Bahamas Issues.
Those just passing through.
The Blockheads you have a rational for your existence.
Namaste.

Back to opening that can of woopass, first of Growing this thread is about the creation of a National culture, and if you had read the posting as I had requested you would have realized that culture has been defined in this thread post #8 as the following:

“Wade Nobels defines culture as {a process which gives people a general design for living and patterns for interpreting their reality}. Its ‘aspects’ he says, are ideology, ethos, and world view; its ‘factors’ are ontology, cosmology, and axiology; and its ‘manifestation’ consist of behavior, value, and attitude. “Marimba Ani continues; if we look at the phenomenon of culture, we are impressed by the following characteristics:
1. It acts to unify and to order experience, so that its members perceive organization, consistency, and system. In this respect it provides a ‘world-view’ that offers up orienting conceptions of reality.
2. It gives people group identification, as it builds on shared historical experience, creating a sense of collective cultural identity.
3. It ‘tells ‘its members ‘what to do’ thereby creating a ‘voice’ of prescriptive authority. To its members, culture re-presents values (which they themselves have created together out of shared experiences) as a systematic set of ideas and a single coherent statement.
4. It provides the basis for commitment, priority, and choice, thereby imparting direction to group development and behavior; indeed, it acts to limit the parameters of change and to pattern the behavior of its members. In this way culture helps to initiate and authorize its own creation.
5. It provides for the creation of shared symbols and meanings. It is, therefore, the primary creative force of collective consciousness.
6. For all the above reasons, it impacts on the definition of group interest and it’s potentially political. (Pages 4-5 of Yurgu)”

In your list of cultural attributes of the Bahamas, it’s amazing that you did not mention Anasie the spider, do you know Anasie the Spider, or Shango, and did your parents or grand parents ever tell you to be quiet when it was thundering and lightening because God was talking? Well this is part of the African culture that is residual in the country. I am like Anasie in many ways in that I am spinning a web made up of many threads that are all connected, are you with me?

Therefore as I look at the Bahamas I am cognizant of the fact that the Bahamas is created in the Maaf (the period beginning in the 15/16 century with the second rise of western Asia called Europe to the present moment which saw the rise of the slave trade and the genocide of many of the world’s people). The original people the Arawaks experienced genocide and those who would later make up these seven hundred Rocks island and keys would migrate from western Asia the Americas, other parts of the Caribbean and Africa, so in effect you have a salad bowl figuratively where the bowl that binds us together was colonialism, now its neocolonialism, which is the national culture at the present time which is delineated in post #28:


”What did Casual Observer miss in his/her diatribe? Well this is a thread on the Praxis and Theory of National Culture, and as such a Thread I must note and you must be cognizant of the fact that; we live under a system of Neoconialism:”A system of indirect economic and cultural control that often takes the place of colonialism. Neocolonial countries, such as those of Africa, the Caribbean or Latin America, are countries where powerful multinational organizations, such as the World Bank and the international monetary fund and transnational corporations, dictate the value of goods that are sold on the world market. These international bodies impose their will on these countries through providing aid, on condition that western political system are established in the neocolonial, so that elites favorable to the west keep the country under western control. When economic manipulation doesn’t work, as in Ghana under Nkrumah or Chile under Allende, these Western institutions encourage corrupt elites within the country to overthrow leadership that is working for the people.”(Return To the African Mother Principle of Male and Female Equality Volume 1 by Oba T’Shaka). I really cannot blame Casual Observer, him/her for their ignorance after all, which institution in the Bahamas will any of us learn about Neocolonialism or Culture? As I have written before this thread is implicitly what is stated in its heading, despite the numerous Block Head posting, the prerequisites for posting here( in this thread, that is, The Essential Theory And Praxis Of National Culture) in a serious manner have are delineated please refer to Post 11.”

Growing I refer you to post #53 which is a list of sources that I am using, as this is an open ended Dissertation the list will be expanded.

I grew up in the construction field and the term Block head is a derivative from there, however once again you need to read post #11:

Due to the didactical nature of this post I am calling for a discontinuation of Blockhead practices pervades a significant number of threads here is an example:
1. Blockhead number one says see I told you he was a communist.
2. Blockhead number two polpot tried that.
3. Blockhead number three communism is like a light bulb that only works in a vacuum.
4. Blockhead number four continues in his/her normal diatribe.
5. Blockhead number five I agree that’s a good point.
As I have mentioned before this is Malcolm X Month, thus I am going to define the Blockhead Pathology, it is characterized by a deficiency in these ten areas of thinking skills:
1. Concentration.
2. Observation.
3. Memory.
4. Logical reasoning.
5. Making inferences.
6. Forming hypotheses.
7. Generating options.
8. Making association between ideas.
9. Recognizing patterns.
10. Spatial and Kinesthetic perception.
For more info on these see the book Brain Power Learn to Improve Your Thinking Skills by Karl Albrecht. The Blockhead Syndrome is unique in that it posses a resistance towards improving in the ten areas of thinking skills, where as others may be have similar deficiency but there is not the resistance towards the correcting of the problem. I must say however if you get a chance, do buy the book it’s a great book. I purchase mine at a discount book store for $3. Not only are Blockheads deficient in the ten thinking areas skills but also in the six functional categories:
1. Fact finding.
2. Crap detecting.
3. Thinking on your feet.
4. Idea production.
5. Problem solving and decision making.
6. happying.
I am so amazed at the karmonic nature of the universe I first came to this place posting about the importance of critical thinking, thinking out side of the box, and as I type these words I reflect and see that I am still there on the mountain of critical thinking, thinking beyond the box, aint it great”

I trust you know what a 2 by 4 is, or a can of woopass, but be that as it, time to continue with a dictionary of terminology.

blah, blah, blah...those who would later make up these seven hundred Rocks island and keys would... blah, blah, blah

You don't know anything about the Bahamas other than what is found in wikipedia, do you?

You don't know anything about the Bahamas other than what is found in wikipedia, do you?

yeah spell is right: cay
and proounce it: key