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TCI Misick ..American Airlines Flies Here Many Times A Day,”.

“We have some­thing com­ing up here called Haitian Flag Day. We have got Haitian Flag Day. We got

TCI's Finance Minister Washington Misick
TCI’s Finance Minister Washington Misick

Jamaica Day. We have got Bahamas Day. When the hell we going to have Turks and Caicos Day?”

I total­ly agree with Washington Misick Turks and Caicos Islands Finance Minister ‚when you relo­cate to anoth­er country,you ask that coun­try to accept you, by default you agree to be assim­i­lat­ed into that nation’s culture.
That nation has absolute­ly no oblig­a­tion to grant spe­cial des­ig­nat­ed priv­i­leges to you to cel­e­brate spe­cial days to hon­or your for­mer country.
In many cas­es if your coun­try was that great you would not have moved away to begin with .
“If these peo­ple want to be part of us we can­not encour­age, we can’t sup­port them with all these days, if we are going to be Singapore. If you are going to be in this coun­try, be in this coun­try, part of this coun­try. If you want to be in Jamaica, if you want to be in Haiti or The Bahamas, stay there,”.

Misick’s com­ments have gen­er­at­ed a pha­lanx of com­ments in some cir­cles with some peo­ple accus­ing him of Xenophobia.
According to The Jamaica Observer the small Island nation chain has a total pop­u­la­tion of 31,458, of which 12,030 were British Overseas Territories Citizens and/​or Belongers, 10,981 are Haitians, 1,768 are Jamaicans, 1,476 from the Dominican Republic, 818 from the United States of America, 524 from The Bahamas, 403 from Canada, 381 from the United Kingdom, 374 from Guyana, and 262 from oth­er countries.
Each group come with their own cul­ture each usu­al­ly with their own demands on their adopt­ed coun­try. TCI is a tiny nation which can ill afford to give up their sense of iden­ti­ty, at present they are a minor­i­ty in their own country.
Whether we agree or not the finance min­is­ter is on point in say­ing  “If you want to be here, you con­tribute here; if you don’t want to be here, if you want to be some­where else, then American Airlines flies here many times a day,”.

Dissenters should place the shoe on the oth­er foot and say how they would feel if oth­er groups came to Jamaica and asked to be allowed to stay then start to demand all kinds of spe­cial­ly des­ig­nat­ed privileges.