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Lindsay: How you are perceived
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When I arrived at university in a foreign country … I was asked by a black person why I was hanging out with Caucasians. At first, I was shocked.
Cayman Current (https://www.caymancurrent.org/tag/racial-divide/)
When I arrived at university in a foreign country … I was asked by a black person why I was hanging out with Caucasians. At first, I was shocked.
Patrick and April talk about local mask mandates in the context of international guidance. We also preview our reporting on racial divisions in Cayman’s school system.
Could the structure of our country’s education system be fostering racial divisions in younger generations that have not previously been a hallmark of Cayman Islands society?
“What I like to call subtle race-think and its harrowing consequences is very much alive and well in Cayman.” — UCCI Associate Professor Christopher Williams
“The Cayman Islands is a colonial society and like all colonial societies social stratification is firstly and foremostly based on that most potent symbol of colonialism: the white or near-white skin.” — historian and former UCCI President Roy Bodden