Cultural behaviours that exist in Trinidad and Tobago

Carnival mentality was seen as having two dimensions: during carnival season and outside of carnival period. During the carnival season, carnival mentality has been viewed as a “time to free up”, “time to break away and get on bad” or take part in every carnival activity or event and indulging in alcohol, immoral, vulgar, and promiscuous activities without thinking of the consequences. Outside of the carnival season, carnival mentality refers to the “non-stop party mentality” that is practiced throughout the year; where every event or occasion is treated as a excuse “to lime or party”. Some respondents have regarded carnival mentality as “extreme liming” or “continuous fun in the sun”. Carnival mentality was also seen as having filtered into the workplace where individuals have a very slack, laid back or “don't give a damn” attitude towards work. Carnival mentality was also referred to by a minority of respondents as mindlessness, when you hear music nothing could stop you from dancing, having too many parties in the calendar and events having attributes of carnival.

Discussion

Nine behaviours namely, Liming, Carnival Mentality, Player or Playboy Personality, Tabanca, Obsessional Lateness, Smartman Syndrome, Demon Possession, Spiritual Travel and The Middle-Age Indian Woman Syndrome were identified as existent cultural behaviours. Attempts to validate whether a particular behaviour was part of the culture of Trinidad and Tobago was no easy task. Using a cut-off point of more than a 75 percent respondent rate 35 resulted in the rejection of four behaviours namely, Smartman Syndrome, Demon Possession, Spiritual Travel and the Middle-Age INDIAN WOMEN Syndrome which fell below the 75 percentile.




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man........that was alot to read

sio.. i try eh, i really try but my mind keep wandering while reading and i find myself rereading alot ...lol..>>> project or something??

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i feel that article has Kryptonite in it

I think so!

u see my point, look classic example of trini behaviour.......too lazy to read

Trini 2 de bone!

ok yall start over again, i edit up the post. Please Try and READ!

Blasted lazy ppl

The pain, subsiding, I can start to see properly, my strength returning!

i never see lazy ppl in a forum so, forums are about reading!!!

i feel sio needs to take one of those pills trini or superman was supposed to research for me

sio just because we said all that, doesn't mean that we didn't read it

ummmmm............sio, how come the edited version reminds me of you