Django posted:Robert Spar posted:
Its upsets me, I'm African by birth, and I have watched country after country hate and go the same way... and Guyana seems to be galloping down the same road.With so little effort, Guyana could be made great with this little bit of oil money coming in, but the institutions that work for the bankers, don't seem to give a shit.
Take the damn oil, but at least leave a tiny country that works, just one African country that works!Great read Robert Spar,would like to point out if the "African country" mentioned is Guyana,it's surely wrong it's a South American Country with a mixed population.
So is Africa... mixed... Mahatma Gandhi grew up in Durban South Africa, that country is even more mixed than Guyana (11 languages)... but yeah I see the sensitivity and I don't mean it in an internal sense, its the African dot in the Spanish sea that surrounds Guyana.
I cant say Black Country because Argentinians refer to themselves as blacks, meaning indigenous.
Guyana reminds me of Zimbabwe when it was still good, it had nice people, and it was getting very wealthy. It used to be the bread basket of Africa, an amazing country... until the bastards broke it... that's why I say that.
But yeah start there, what do you want to call Guyana... the BROWN dot in South America? Find one name that makes everyone feel like this is home. For me Caribbean doesn't really work either, this country is absolutely unique in South America.
Guyanese may think they different, but they have far more in common with each other than their heritage... better learn that as well.
The "home land" is now foreign... its here, better make it work.
Yeah I think of Guyana as the African dot in South America... until there is a better name for it.