Jamaica: Patwa Power
This post is from our coverage of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing China, curated by John Kennedy and sponsored by Reuters.
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Jamaica
Annie Paul gives a rundown of Jamaica's outstanding Olympic achievements, making the point that “the phenomenal performance of the Jamaican athletes is also due to the cultural self-confidence they feel…this is not a confidence manufactured by the abjectly self-conscious, respectability-seeking, hymn-singing English-speaking middle classes but one bred out of the flamboyant, boisterous, in-your-face Patwa-speaking population.”
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