De media give and we tek

Barbados has traditionally been known as little England since the culture and society has been influenced so greatly by its former colonizers. For the rest of the region this is the same, except the colonizer may change to France or Spain. But today, when I turned on my Facebook page I was forced to wonder if we are drifting so far away from this, and our own identity as the Caribbean and becoming a replica of North America.

There's nothing wrong with engaging in global activities, in fact I fully endorse it. I just want to point out that this drive is being pushed by the media and in some instances it may not always be good. Today is Superbowl Sunday, and yes that apparently means something to us here in the Caribbean. It's the big showdown finals of the best in American NFL Football. And since we are being bombarded by American ideologies, policies, culture and lifestyles through the different media we consume, we might as well be bombarded by their sports and adopt it too.

Nearly every post on my Facebook page, from various Caribbean countries was about the Superbowl. Needless to say, a few weeks ago we staged the Caribbean T20 Cricket Tournament, and those updates weren't nearly as forthcoming. So are we happy to forget about our own and adopt theirs? I would say its not so great being globalized sometimes.

Now you see that the direction our society is travelling is guided by the media and what they give to us which we so happily take.