{"id":142264,"date":"2015-07-11T14:03:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T18:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=142264"},"modified":"2015-07-11T14:18:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T18:18:01","slug":"my-response-to-mr-j-j-joseph-article-diaspora-in-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/commentary\/my-response-to-mr-j-j-joseph-article-diaspora-in-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"My response to Mr. J. J. \u00a0Joseph article \u2013 Diaspora in Motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-39536\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/commentary2.jpg\" alt=\"Commentary\" width=\"286\" height=\"206\" \/>Dominicans have a false sense of invincibility, arrogance, false bravado, and an inferiority complex: we all think we are Masas. I say this because of a recent article I read on DNO &#8211; by Mr. J. J. Joseph. In reviewing this article, one has to sit back and smile, and realize that this writing is that of a beginner; someone taking Core Language Arts 101 in pursuit of an Associate degree \u2013 the first phase.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to use my response as a practice in keeping my writing skills sharpened. I will try to encourage the readers to understand my response\/reasoning in response to Mr. J.J. Joseph\u2019s, by using psychology strategies. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Firstly, let me begin by stating that we have a lot of generational baggage and demonic behaviors that we\u2019ve been taught from generation to generation. For example, parents would spit on the ground and send their child on an errand, and if the spittle dried before they got back, they would receive a flogging\/beating\/whipping close to near death. Most of the beatings we would receive would be across our backs and on our bottom\/buttocks. Do you know that our bottom\/bottom is one of our erogenous zones, and that beating a child from a very early age on their lower extremities can lead to an association of pain with erotic pleasure; which can lead to sexual difficulties in adulthood? Do you remember that we would pee ourselves after a severe beating?<\/p>\n<p>I raise this example just to demonstrate the abuse that we encounter while growing up, forget about how the family was raised, the neighborhood\/environment that we grew up in, and our religious preferences. This naturally brings me to the start of my discussion: our thinking. As I mentioned above, we have been carrying a lot of \u201cgenerational baggage\u201d \u2013 so to speak, and that has had a lot of influence on how we make life decisions. It is up to us to break that cycle by treating\/teaching\/raising our kids differently than how we were raised.<\/p>\n<p>When we examine clinically how we develop our attitudes\/ambitions &amp; interaction with society, most of us basically just recycle the old environment that we were raised in (that generational baggage.) In order for us to change our thinking, our thought process, the way we examine, interpretation of factual events, we must look clinically at the five behavioral states.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Natural Child: This is a person who was born into this world with no baggage in that person has the potential to be anything\/anybody, unhampered, free.<\/li>\n<li>Adult Maturity* (Adolescence): This is the stage that 90% of the world is stuck at; our adolescence. And it is because of the generational baggage that we recycle our behavior. We never grow up to become adults, because it was never taught to us\u2026 we never learnt it. So we criticize and condemn, develop envy, jealousy, and unforgiving hatred towards each other with no remorse.<\/li>\n<li>The Nurturing Parents: This is the ultimate; the most beneficial state to achieve. This state will nurture that natural child, and it will develop that child to become whatever they want to be, because of the freedom to think and act with proper guidance. That child will, in turn, raise his or her family that way, thereby breaking that \u201cgenerational baggage\u201d behavior that keeps us ruminating toxic stuff, over and over. * This is true Adult Maturity.<\/li>\n<li>The Critical Parent: This stage is where most of us are stuck (remember the adult stage, the stage that most of us never get past). At this stage, all we do is criticize, admonish, beat, whip, scold, and denigrate our children and others. So, it is at this stage we raise children to be adaptive instead of free-thinkers.<\/li>\n<li>The final stage is called the Adaptive Child: At this stage, the child who has the potential to become whatever they wanted to be (if raised by a nurturing parent), unfortunately has become an adaptive child, simply because they are raised by a critical parent, a parent who constantly wagged his or her finger in your face, criticizing authority, cursing, drinking in public, single parent. In other words, dysfunctional parenting. This characteristic produces children-in-adult bodies like we had in the Salisbury \u201cpeaceful protest\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let us analyze the facts. You have a lone constituency: i.e. from the southwest to the northwest, this is the only constituency that voted UWP, making them a minority constituency. Yet this constituency was able to create a road blockage (which they defended with unlawful force) that prevented the rest of the northwest communities from going about their daily chores. The protestors claimed that they did this to gain the attention of the PM who had promised to repair its farmer feeder roads. Now, mark you, this is one of the most prosperous farming communities in the entire country. Ask Mr. Hillary Shillingford.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, there were two unlawful incidents at Salisbury. You had those who agreed with the protest versus those against, and the back and forth between both sides. Consequently, the Parliamentary Representative of the Salisbury constituency was the guest speaker at a protest rally in solidarity with the residents of Salisbury, in the vicinity of the United Nations, on a weekend when there is no activity at the UN, other than tourism. If the organizers were serious about representation and bringing the plight of the Salisbury people to the world stage, why not demonstrate when the UN is in session?<\/p>\n<p>In order to make progress, we need to follow the developmental examples that I presented above. We have to untwist our thinking, examine the five behavioral stages, and acknowledge what stages we are at and make a commitment to change. I can list ten ways to do this. This suggestion and my essay is just a tool to help us grow; a tool to help us make a difference, and there are so many other tools available to us, just check the Internet! So here goes:*<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Identify the Distortion:<\/li>\n<li>Examine the Evidence:<\/li>\n<li>The Double Standard Method:<\/li>\n<li>The Experimental Technique:<\/li>\n<li>Thinking in Shades of Gray:<\/li>\n<li>The Survey Method:<\/li>\n<li>Define Terms:<\/li>\n<li>The Semantic Method:<\/li>\n<li>Re-Attribution:<\/li>\n<li>Cost-Benefit Analysis:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>*I choose not to give examples in the interest of time and writing space, but these ten ways were retrieved from the Book titled \u201c<em>The Feeling Good Handbook<\/em>\u201d, by David D. Burns, M.D.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, my hope is this. As we encounter social situations in life, I want us to really examine what course of action we should implore. Ask ourselves: should it be one for the betterment of mankind, or the continuation of \u201cgenerational baggage\u201d \u00a0that we keep ruminating? This is just food for thought.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Here are some other articles\/books that one can research:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The Three Faces of Victim<\/em>\u201d, by Lynne Forrest<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Letting Go of the Need to Control,\u201d<\/em> by Ann M.<\/p>\n<p>Happy reading!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of Dominica News Online or Duravision Inc. Additionally, DNO provides an open forum for all views once they meet the publishing and editorial standards of this website. Publishing space has also been directly offered to the various political parties and continues to be available to all those who wish to utilize it.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dominicans have a false sense of invincibility, arrogance, false bravado, and an inferiority complex: we all think we are Masas. I say this because of a recent article I read on DNO &#8211; by Mr. J. J. Joseph. 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