If someone were to ask you......

[j-kid]

Re: If someone were to ask you......

Wendy, mi curious. Ah whe di heck yuh get dat deh phrase, especially wen yuh ah talk bout dead hawse?!

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">...beat it to sickness...</div></div>

[Magician]

Re: If someone were to ask you......

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kia</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: WeNdY_PeNdY</div><div class="ubbcode-body">**

If you have one parent from Trinidad and the other from Jamaica and yuh born a Brooklyn.. where are you from in that scenario?
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u bawn in the US of Jamaican &amp; Trinidadian parentage

If smaddy born in the US from Jamaican parents and grew in Jamaica so wah dat mek dem?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Click to reveal.. <input type="button" class="form-button" value="Show me!" onclick="toggle_spoiler(this, 'Yikes, my eyes!', 'Show me!')" /></div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div style="display: none;">dual citizen </div></div></div> </div></div>

What if de same smaddy now forfeit fi dem US passport count a dem waan run fi MP?
Dem still Mercan but nuh no US passport.

[SmoothOperator]

Re: If someone were to ask you......

Earth. Born and grow there and have no desire to live anywhere else.

That's an answer you can give when you can't bother with the whole heap a question.

[RichD]

Re: If someone were to ask you......

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TreyJ</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Earth. Born and grow there and have no desire to live anywhere else.

That's an answer you can give when you can't bother with the whole heap a question. </div></div>

den dem think ...&quot;i wonder what he is ashamed of&quot;

[Wendy]

Re: If someone were to ask you......

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: J kid</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Wendy, mi curious. Ah whe di heck yuh get dat deh phrase, especially wen yuh ah talk bout dead hawse?!

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">...beat it to sickness...</div></div> </div></div>

LMAO .. what a peica oxymoron.
Move an lef mi

BTW - Magic ..where di backside yuh come from? An doan fesity an tell mi back a cow

Yuh canfuse mi day by day..an wos like yuh noh tan wan place \o/

[Gen]

Re: If someone were to ask you......

or just tell them the name of a less known planet a think a gwine use dat next time



<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TreyJ</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Earth. Born and grow there and have no desire to live anywhere else.

That's an answer you can give when you can't bother with the whole heap a question. </div></div>

[Peasie]

Re: If someone were to ask you......

like Brother From Another Planet

[quodlibet]

Re: If someone were to ask you......

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: R_C</div><div class="ubbcode-body">....&quot;where are you from&quot; how do you answer ? Is 'home' your current address ? Where you were born ? Where you grew up ? Where your ancestors were from ?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Franz Fanon</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> &quot;Colonisation is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and
emptying the native's brain of all form and content. By a kind of
perverted logic, it turns to the past of oppressed people, and distorts,
disfigures and destroys it.&quot;

From <span style="font-style: italic">Wretched of the Earth</span>.</div></div>

I have always found the diversity of answers to that question interesting if for no other reason than it forces one to contemplate how enormous a task it sometimes is for members of diasporic communities to resolve the question of their own <span style="font-weight: bold">cultural</span> identity. </div></div>


If mi really want dem out a mi face, mi buss out wid di clear jamaican accent and seh...


GERMANY