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Understanding Independence through cultural identity
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The Weekly Gleaner
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July 31, 2008
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Copyright informationCopyright The Gleaner Company Jul 31-Aug 6, 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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INDEPENDENCE IS, first of all, the political status of a country which is sovereign, that is, free from political bonds, which can exercise domain over its freedom. This status opens the doors of opportunity to enter into the halls of international bodies and sit with other free and independent nations as equals.
Jamaica did all that in the first year of Independence in 1962. But these new positions in global and regional settings did not arouse any deep inner feelings of a new identity, the way the national flag and national anthem did. The international linkages were too remote.
Coming closer to touching the soul of the people was the appointment of the first Jamaican, Sir Clifford ...
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