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missjohn31620497ParticipantAmericans hardly know anything about any country besides their own. I remember a conversation I had with an American co-worker here in Washington, DC who had a stereo-typical view of islands. I told her that I’m from Trinidad, a Caribbean island with a population of about 1.3 million. She literally said ‘Oh no! A million people on a tiny island?’. I guess she was picturing a million of us standing shoulder to shoulder on a land mass the size of football field (the Gillian’s Island mindset). In fact, modern, industrialized Trinidad is 5,128 sq. km. New York City is only 308 sq. km. but has more than 7 million people ‘packed’ into it. Americans forget that Cuba (11 million) is an island, so is Singapore (4 million), even the mighty Japan (125 million) is basically 4 islands making up one nation. Americans also think that all islands are purely sun, sea and sand. But Jamaica (2.5 million) mines bauxite and produces aluminium. Trinidad’s got oilfields both inland and offshore as well as natural gas and nitrogen reserves and isn’t crawling with tourists because tourism doesn’t drive the economy there.
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