Originally Posted by MissB

The only experience I can speak to as far as Jamaica and Jamaicans go, which I've also heard to be true from my black friends who attended Howard and Morehouse Universities here in the US, is that there seems to be more "classism" as opposed to "racism". I experienced this in Ja from Jamaicans who lived in larger cities... the term I think they used was people being from the "country" being poorer, uneducated... but I didn't really see it as an issue of race as much as "class"...

The same is true of EVERY group of people though, so I guess I don't really understand the purpose of this thread. It's there. What is there really to talk about? Some people will have experienced it, others have not... What is the purpose of this thread... just to talk about different experiences?