I have Indiian family who doh trust Indians. Sad to say but there is a perception that indian people are money jumbies.
For the first years of my undergrad education @ a HBCU (historically black coillege or univ) I was the only trini indian in a sea of afro-trini. I went to saints and hence I had an affinity for brand name clothing so I like my brands and I would wear a lot of adidas but I found out that the people I sat with every day remarked that i had mattress money cause i was only wearing adidas. But the fact of the matter was that I worked hard for everything i wantted, i remember traveling on the blue bus and saving my travelling money so I could buy those $600 shoes. (for my undergrad i stop asking my folks for money my freshman year). And when you don't drink and work on campus you can buy those lttle things you want (creature comforts). This did not matter people only look on the outside and chose to pass judegement.
And if someone was to check the people that have the money in trini aren't indian or african.
I mean based on this kind of logic a chinese can't hold office beacuse all they do is set up corner shop and what about the example of Kuei Tung. ( Kuei Tung was a PNM before he join the . UNC).
I believe that the younger generation will think before they vote and as the older minds loose their strangle hold jus beacuse of numbers we will have a truly reflective goverment in make up and values.
To me all trinis are my my family and like my brother or sister I can bad talk them, but if an outsider thinks based on this he can come bad talk them with me he/she better think again.
Outsiders looking in on a subset of society berrating each other, will think that the society on a whole act that way. A fact that is most disturbing when those passing rash judgement belong to the same society and should know better.
Quick couple of questions.
1) What is the average age of the person who believes that based on the UNC they are resistant to have an Indian PM.
2) Is it possible to have too much trinis in one location (outside of trini that is )?