Saturday, February 15, 2014

On Behaving Like an Adult

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Unknown said...

One of the major underpinnings of national maturation is the absence of inter generational continuity. In the years (circa Hon G. Charles)children, teenagers, young adults, parents and grandparents coexisted respectfully and in populations that were more proportionate if not adequate-relative to each other.

As more able citizens migrated for opportunities in the metro areas of first nations, the brain drain took off. Increasingly the generations between college freshman and retiree dwindled to near extinction (i.e., returning well educated professionals were a drop in the bucket compared to the masses that stayed away (except for the annual visit).

On my first visit after independence, I was pleased to see the proliferation of many different school uniforms but hardly a middle age adult up and about. Subsequent visits not only confirmed this growing disparity but an ominous new twist was evident.

Many young adults seemed to have developed some of the decadent taste buds typically discovered in large metro areas of developed nations. Malheureusement, they were not equipped or care to equip themselves with the "legal" work ethic to acquire the means to satiate these decadent appetites.

So in 30+ years we have had a burgeoning population segment of teens having babies and these babies barely past puberty repeating tthis viscious cycle of socio-economic depravity.
The children who benefited from the earnest work ethic of copra, banana, dock and factory workers (circa George Charles)stayed on permanently in Europe & American Continents- not available as live-real time mentors for the post independence batch.

February 17, 2014 at 5:46 AM

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