Region having common history a disgusting generalisation- Davies
Mr Davies, told Virgin Islands News Online that among the things he has planned as President of the UWI Law Society, integration is among the most important. “If we are to move on as a region, we must accept that we have to join hands and work on our economies as a team.”
It is at this point that Mr Davies opined that as longs as persons in the Region think that they have a common history then unity can never be achieved. “Each Caribbean nation, like every other nation, has a unique history and it is through learning and understanding each other’s uniqueness that we can find unity.”
Mr Davies intends to fight that “false” notion by making it a priority of his to have students explore each other’s culture.
Another plan of Mr Davies is to increase the value of the education offered at the Faculty of Law at UWI Cave Hill. “I will do this by writing to the various government ministers across the region to come and give my constituents a lunch time lecture on the unique legal and political challenges they face in running their ministries and countries.”
Further, Mr Davies said he will write the various civil rights and human rights leaders from around the world and beg them to come to give lectures on the struggles that they face in their region/country so that students can start to “become more aware of what is going on in the world outside and inside of the Caribbean.”
History was created on March 14, 2013 when 21-year-old Daniel F. Davies was elected President of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Cave Hill’s Law Society in a landslide victory, becoming the first Virgin Islander to be elected to the position.
Mr Davies, the son of Fisheries Officer Samuel Davies and owner of Serendipity Bookshop Mrs Janette Fligelstone Davies, secured his position as president with 236 votes to 27.
The Law Society is a welfare organisation that caters to the various needs of the students of Law at the UWI Cave Hill Campus in St. Michael, Barbados.
In addition to winning the position of President of the Cave Hill Law Society, Mr Davies is also the President and founder of the University of the West Indies’ first Judo Club, the Blackbird Judo Club, which is a fully funded university programme under UWI’s Cave Hill Sports Academy.
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21 Responses to “Region having common history a disgusting generalisation- Davies”
It is disgusting because it belittles the history and culture of each of us to negate the existence of that diversity and it relegates us to the status of "those people" that non-black, non-Caribbean people believe us to hold.
When you go abroad and get tired of explaining to every single person you encounter that, no, you are not Jamaican and yes, the BVI is a separate place from St. Thomas you might start to feel the same way.
Yes I have been called Jamaican in the UK and yes I have met people who think all the Virgin Islands are the same. There are probably places in the world that you are equally ignorant of their history and culture. Does this make you disgusting? Ignorance of persons not familiar with the history and culture of the region in my view is not necessary disgusting.