'Tourism Not For Us' - William Knibb Youths Shun Sector

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so its wrong to have ambition, to want to own the hotel heducation or not common or not

[Mosiah]

You are right! I am but a lowly messenger!

[Bricktop]

Not you claffy...the students...they say that tourism is "not for us" because it does nothing for the "common man"...hiffin dem go callege & get a heducation den deh wasn't will be "common" hanymore...

[Bricktop]

You can have all the ambition in the world...if you don't have the education to achieve it then it's called dreaming not ambition...I have no education but i demand to be treated more than just cheap labour? how that work?

[Mosiah]

Oh! Cause I may be a claffy but I am definitely not common!

A-whoa!

[Reggaedoc]

You can have all the ambition in the world...if you don't have the education to achieve it then it's called dreaming not ambition...I have no education but i demand to be treated more than just cheap labour? how that work?

I thought they were 6th formers. What, they should have gotten a PhD in 4th or 5th form?. they are in the secondary phase of their education, and seem to be on the right track.

[Mosiah]

heh heh!

Doc, didn't you get your MD at age 16? And if not, why the hell not?!?

[Bricktop]

So where the "common man" thing drop een? The "common man" went to sixth form and then to college?

[Reggaedoc]

I don't know what they aspiring to...they said that tourism holds nothing for "the common man"...the article is about these students shunning the tourism industry...doesn't sound like they are aspiring to much if yuh aks me...unless "the common man" is college heducated

What does the hotel industry hold for the common, black Jamaican man, beside low wage slave labour?. Look Brick, if all things were equal, many of the white, foreign and local managers at Sandals etc would be then ones pushing the brooms. Many of them, had they been in a society where merit and qualification matters, the most they would be is a hotel desk clerk. Jamaica is essentially a refuge for them.

[Bricktop]

What does any job hold for the common man of any hue? You never see white people a clean toilet in America? People with little or no education should be paid top dollar? Patty shop ting you a deal wit?

[Reggaedoc]

What does any job hold for the common man of any hue? You never see white people a clean toilet in America? People with little or no education should be paid top dollar? Patty shop ting you a deal wit?

What education the white people who run the hotels/tourism products in Jamaica have over and beyond Jamaicans?. You ever see any of them cleaning toilets?. You ever ask why they are not the ones cleaning the toilets?. I have asked that question before and will continue to.

[Reggaedoc]

heh heh!

Doc, didn't you get your MD at age 16? And if not, why the hell not?!?

I know. Cetainly never got it by aspiring for a HEART certificate and working my way up from a $50.00 a week job in Stewart's kitchen.

[Bricktop]

The Sous Chefs didn't go to culinary school? The GMs didn't go to Hospitality Management school? What they have over and beyond Jamaicans is international experience in the hotel industry...what is with the local mentality of I have a degree so I am entitled to a big job... a degree isn't worth the paper it's printed on if you have no practical experience...

[Reggaedoc]

What does any job hold for the common man of any hue? You never see white people a clean toilet in America? People with little or no education should be paid top dollar? Patty shop ting you a deal wit?

What education the white people who run the hotels/tourism products in Jamaica have over and beyond Jamaicans?. You ever see any of them cleaning toilets?. You ever ask why they are not the ones cleaning the toilets?. I have asked that question before and will continue to.

[Islandman]

That is exactly the point. They are speaking for themselves not for the average secondary school student leaving school in JA.

Nothing particularly wrong with their attitude about the tourist industry in my view but it should be put in context. They have options, most don't.