Annarita Paludi – English II, LM – Task 1a – 24 marzo 2009
INTENTIONAL MATRIX (WORLDVIEW)
A. VALUES (beliefs and/or affects and/or wants)
1a. Brotherhood: his one's people is very important for a Jamaican. The collective value is the essential requisite for encouraging people don’t not to yield to the oppression (as Marley sang) and everybody has the same rights and same importance.
1b. Family: The family is the most important group a person belongs to, and as such, it the group with whom a person spends most of own time developing and maintaining cordial intimate social relations.
2. Social Justice: it means in has a particular sense, not for the application of rules, judges but people's justice: it is very important to stand up for one's own rights!
3a. Optimism and serenity: to face problems with optimism through the smoking, marijuana makes better your life better, because you don’t think about the bad things and you let your imagination wander.
3b. Freedom: emancipate ourthemselves from mental slavery; none no one but ourthemselves can free their our minds.
4.
Friendship and informality: Jamaican
people immediately
talk with you immediately,
they don’t use
stand on
ceremony. Jamaicans have a healthy distrust of those in authority and
prefer to put their faith in those they know well, such as their
extended family and close friends who are treated as if they were
family.
(This
sentence is from
http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/global-etiquette/jamaica.html.
Next time please do not copy; rephrase your source.)
There isn’t a
strictly
etiquette even if the
table manners are relatively informal.
5. Physical Contact: it is very important. A Jamaican wants a first contact that isn’t verbal but physical. In the first an initial approach a Jamaican doesn’t say ask for your first name or surname, he says asks for it when the friendship is established. The most common greeting is the handshake with direct eye contact, and a warm smile. Once a friendship has been established, women may hug and kiss on each cheek, starting with the right. Men often pat each other's shoulder or arm during the greeting process or while conversing. They always move your their bodyies especially when they listen to the reggae music.
B. CULTURAL DIMENSIONS
1. Collective: the value of the group as the basic unit, and the individual as a fraction of a whole. Membership in the group is important. Membership means decision making is done by the collectiveity. Membership means accomplishments are collective. Jamaica values the group, for example: family, tribe, friends, etc. This is copied (mostly word by word) from Beamer. Next time rephrase it.
Individualistic----------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------Collectivist
USA Holland Switzerland Britain France Italy Sweden Rasta-Jamaica
Horizontal/egalitarian: Jamaica has fewer ladders, it shares responsibility, the input is considered valid when it comes from many sources throughout an organization and the flat structure equalizes individual responsibility and opportunity. There is more social equality. This is copied (mostly word by word) from Beamer. Next time rephrase it.
Horizontal/egalitarian---------------------------------------------------------------------Hierarchical Jamaica USA Spain Germany Britain Italy India
Degree of gender: in Jamaica there is less differentiation and discrimination between genders but it is less marked than in stereotypically “macho” socieites.
Male society-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Female society Spain Italy Jamaica Holland Denmark Finland
[This is an excellent analysis of the trait “collective” applied to Jamaican society; it enables one to see how (Rasta) Jamaicans interpret “collectivity”.]
2. Rules bending: Jamaica is a country that doesn’t like the rules, it is less rule-oriented, it is more ready to accept change
“Rules
Observant”
--------------------------------------------------------------------------“Rules
Bending”
Switzerland Germany Britain USA Greece Italy Brazil Egypt
Rasta-Jamaica
3.
Learn from experience: the past is
important because experiences can be viewed as successes. It isn’t
true or learned until it is lived. Experiences that don’t teach
something are wasted opportunities. This
is copied (mostly word by word) from Beamer. Next time rephrase
it.
Jamaica has had a difficult
past, they were slaves, and now they want to be free from every kind
of “slavery”.
Learn from experience---------------------------------------------------------------Learn from authority Jamaica Germany Britain
4. Form distrusted: a stereotypical Jamaican distrusts form, especially the bourgeois forms that British “civilization” imposes: judges wigs do not mean that the law is equal for everyone, even if the Rastas have a lot a rituals but it is also true that a good Rasta hadn’t doesn't have to wear dreadlocks.
“Form
Trusted”
--------------------------------------------------------------------------“Form
Distrusted”
Japan China
Britain Germany USA Spain Italy Mexico Rasta-Jamaica
5. Direct Communication: putting the main message up front, preferring words that are unadorned, straightforward, and dynamic valuing the truth/facts over politeness. This is copied (mostly word by word) from Beamer. Next time rephrase it.
Direct Communication ----------------------------------------------------------Indirect Communication Jamaica USA Spain Germany Italy Britain India
C. RESULTING MAXIMS
1a. “All together we can do everything”.
1a. “Out of many, one people”. (Even if it is platonic, I like it. It is Jamaica’s motto that describes the mixing of people of various backgrounds and cultures over centuries becoming just “Jamaicans”.)
1b.“You are not alone, we are a big family”.
2.“Take it easy, in the end justice will come.”
3a. “Smoke marijuana and free your mind”.
3a. “Don't worry about a thing, it's gonna be all right".
3b.“I'm no longer a slave, I'm free”.
4. “There aren’t rules to follow, you don’t stand on ceremony and make yourself at home”.
5. “We are all friends”.
5. “You can tell say what you think!”
Useful links to understand Jamaican mentality:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8sF475qfVM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_English
http://testimania.leonardo.it/artista/testi_bob_marley_55.html
http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/global-etiquette/jamaica.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foFbFOxbPJk
Not a very extensive bibliography... where are the scholarly publications?