The Folk Roots of Jamaican Cultural Identity

 The Folk Roots of Jamaican Cultural Identity by Edward Seaga

    From the jump, this article exposes the major disadvantages people of Jamaica experience from poverty.  Families in Jamaica that choose not to breastfeed often can't afford baby food or formula and supplement milk for infants with porridge and water. Doing this quite literally forces people to not develop as well from reaching a normal weight and height all the way to literal brain function. I've always been aware of the ongoing global class-war we live in that separates the rich from the poor, but to psychologically be disadvantaged by poverty appears to me to be a whole new level of severity. "The possibility for a fully productive education is impaired when the brain is unable to reach it's full potential", this line drives home the point that impoverished kids really do not have the opportunities of those better off. When people look at the vast disparity between the lowest income groups and the rest of society and why they appear to be able to get out of their systemic slump, people have their answer. People living in poverty are actually dispositioned to be stuck in poverty for the rest of their lives due to preventable genetic impairment. Being genetically disadvantaged by poverty isn't something you can move to America and work up the corporate ladder to fix, you are stuck at some percentage of functioning capacity that you could have been at. This isn't to say these people can't be successful and live happy lives but they are being impaired by something entirely preventable.