JULIET PORTILLO
We have been exposed to so many foreign media via a host of television channels, books and magazines that we hardly appreciate our own local programming or read books written by our local authors. Books like 'Green Days by the River' and 'A year in San Fernando'. Gone are the days of everyone talking about 'Calabash Alley' we hardly have that type of programming anymore since we would not have an audience, nowadays it is 'young and Restless' and 'Bold and Beautiful'. Our young people perform to empty seats for Music Festival yet we pay exorbitant sums of money to go to a a 'Beyonce' or 'Richard Marx' concert. The vast majority of TV shows are from the North. Our entire lifestyles have changed. If one observe the patterns of behaviour of young people they all exhibit the same taste and patterns of consumption. Our identity is under threat and if we are not careful will be completely obliterated in the not too distant future.
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