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ISN’T ‘GUYANESE’ ENOUGH?

Jun 18, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
After reading Nigel Hinds’ interesting letter titled: “I prefer you call me African Guyanese” in the media, Sunday 11/6/17, I wondered why the one-word descriptor “Guyanese” is not enough. I grew up hearing and believing that “Guyana was a land of six people (African, Amerindian, Chinese, European, Indian, Portuguese) and after Independence we were socialized to embrace the concept of “one people, one nation, one destiny”….all Guyanese!
Am I wrong in thinking that a logical extension of Mr Hind’s postulation is that Guyana is now a land of ten (10) peoples, having regard to the recent ‘migrations’ to our land (i.e in alphabetic order: African, Amerindian, Brazilian, Chinese, European, Haitian, Indian, Surinamese, Portuguese, Venezuelan); thus we will have in addition to African Guyanese: Indian Guyanese, Amerindian Guyanese, Brazilian Guyanese, Venezuelan Guyanese, Haitian Guyanese etc. etc.
Would this not add to our already deleterious, dangerous divisiveness and detract from what should be a commitment to the cohesiveness being pursued by the Government and hopefully all Guyanese?
Nowrang Persaud

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