Zed posted:.. .One if the problems I have is your view that East indians are clannish but you have not defined what you see them doing that you determine to be clannish.
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got to go.
It is not my view that Indians are clannish. In fact its the root of the Afro Guyanese ethnic dilemma that "dem Indians racial".
By this they mean that an Indian will put another Indian first and foremost and ignore all else. This meaning that in any Indian controlled environment non Indians will be marginalized.
I invite you to concoct your own reasons why the vast majority of blacks, and a large number of mixed people in Guyana do not trust Indians.
It is always interesting that people try to evade discussion on topics by engaging in personal attacks. Sugrim raises this as an issue, though he pretends as if Afro Guyanese have a similar obsession with "Africa" ahead of being Guyanese. D2 introduced the issue TWICE two years ago.
We are accustomed to this behavior.
You don't even see the irony that to prioritize your ethnic identity over your national, and to suggest that those outside of your ethnic group are of scant importance is the very definition of clannishness. As Jagdeo himself said "his people" are rural Indians. Yet he wants to lead Guyana where rural Indians are a MINORITY! So what will those who don't fit into his notion of who his people are to think?
And look at how Moses was being lambasted for the mere fact that he said that he was a Guyanese of East Indian descent. Why were so many "Indians" offended by this?
Clannishness clearly because otherwise they would know that for any multi ethnic society to succeed there will have to be an overarching identity that links all of these diverse peoples, which in fact Moses tried to do.
Now how many "Indians" defended Moses' right to say that he is a Guyanese of East Indian descent? No they prefer Jagdeo who says that "his people" are rural Indians and that he will "take back Guyana" for them.