‘Get back to family values’
Minister Stephen Lashley (FP)
Sat, April 14, 2012 - 12:08 AM
BARBADOS IS UNDER attack from cultural and ethnic forces which are putting the traditional Barbadian way of life in danger.
This is the view of Minister responsible for Ecclesiastical Affairs Stephen Lashley, who warned yesterday that these subtle and open attacks were bombarding almost every aspect of life Barbadians had known and enjoyed as a people.
“Over the years our society has been bombarded, almost all at once, by an array of new technological, cultural and ethnical forces which have substantially altered our way of living.
“Consequently, the Barbadian way of life has given way to foreign lifestyles which militate against the traditional values we held, such as being our brother’s keeper,” he told those gathered at yesterday’s Religious Summit with the theme The Role and Responsibility of Religion in Barbados: An Examination of the Issues confronting Us as a Nation, at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre.
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Barbados is beautiful, our culture is unique and Bajans are beautiful people, it's who we are. After years of living abroad I still maintain my Bajan accent and habits in every aspect of my professional life. I have nothing to be shame about, neither do I want to pretend to be anything more than a Bajan. Thats me....
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Comment LinkAs such, I think we must be more concerned with creating an educational system that produces citizens who are independent and critical thinkers, confident and proud of themselves, respectful and tolerant of others, equipped and committed to utilising all these forces to the harmonious advancement of this country as the cosmopolitan society which it is fast becoming.
Any "force" within the educational system that is not a model of such and has difficulty with independent and critical thinkers, or is disrespectful and intolerant of different views must be SEPARATED from the said system. SWEPT OUT with "dispatch". Mr Lashley should really speak about this to his relevant Cabinet colleague who treats everything like a football.
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Comment LinkBarbados likes to label itself as a "conservative" society. I'm still scratching my head trying to figure out what that means. There are so many conflicting messages. When I was a child growing up in Barbados I saw a lot of interesting situations in the lives of these so-called conservative people. From my recollection, no outside forces were foisting these behaviors on those folks. We weren't feeding at the North American entertainment trough then, so can't cast the blame there.
Can we stop blaming outside forces at every turn for the values we choose to embrace? Can we take responsibility for the decisions we make and the behaviors we engage in? Can we embrace technological, cultural and ethnic forces (some of which are very positive; they help to broaden our horizons) without losing our essence? We are no better or worse than other cultures. Bajans are supposedly intelligent people. They should take responsibility for their actions.
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Comment LinkThis is not an easy personal adjustment to make
for folks not ready to handle Information Overload.
Alvin Toffler spoke about this phenomenon coming at us
in his book FUTURE SHOCK --thirty years ago!
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Comment Linkto mention his son. Leadership is so important to a country! Every country in the world is complaining about the same thing.
There is nothing new under the sun! If you see a cesspool in the middle of the road with some gold in the middle of it when you go to get the gold your still going to get some of the nasty stuff on yourself. Look at the garden of Eden! Look at Jerusalem! Look at all the great empires that fell we are an extension of some of these. They all fell because of corruption! moral and otherwise! Barbados is under attack
spiritually period! Moral teachings start in the home that means cultural and everything else will fall into place. Everything that you see somebody else with or doing you don't have to follow suit! When is the last time that you seen a government minister pull up in a donkey cart wearing fig leaves with some bongos to communicate? In other words! Nobody Forced US! Or! put a gun to our heads to except these things. We wanted them and our leaders want them!
God gives us nice things! He expects us to do nice things with them! In other words we have a choice! It takes 2 parents to run a household that means mainly teaching first! When that breaks down this is what you get! chaos and confusion all the ills of society ! We need to take responsibility for what we do and how we do it! Its our fault! We need to invest more in our children spiritually! And practice what we preach.
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