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2.
Barbados earns most of its foreign currency through tourism. Millions of tourists
visit annually. Many come back time and again as repeat visitors. Movie stars and
music stars also buy properties in Barbados (for instance on the West Coast) and
spend some of the year here.
Using some of the techniques in Angelic Forde’s poem, compose one in which
someone praises a foreigner for appreciating Bajan things or the foreigner does so
himself/herself.
Feel free to follow the steps above but the things listed must be ones visitors
appreciate.
Resources
Poetry
Attitudes to foreign countries, travelling
overseas and/or returning from overseas
Louise Bennett from
Jamaica Labrish (1971)
“America” (180-181)
“Amy Son” (204-205)
*** “Noh Lickle Twang!! (209-210)
Music
Living in America
James Brown I am a Bajan
Rupee
The Pledge
Peter Ram Beautiful Barbados
The Merrymen
Island in the Sun
The Merrymen Nah Leavin
Denyse Plummer