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Originally posted by **sossy**:

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Thinks carefully about how to answer.

I think it's daft to say "I don't see colour" I cant even say I don't judge people on their colour.

My own situation is unusual I think. I'm white and when I was 3 I spent a year in hospital in the days when your parents were told not to visit you as you needed to be left in the hands of the doctors and nurses to heal. By the time I left I had fallen in love with a Jamaican Nurse, my parents had become strangers.

I still get a warm fuzzy feeling when I hear a Jamaican accent and I know for sure if a 40 something Jamaican lady went in the house I would be routing for her to WIN. *wonders if that makes me racist*

Awww... that is sooo sweet!!

Although when I hear a Jamaican accent I think of my ex and father of my daughter

LOL I am still puzzled to this day when people say they cant understand a Jamaican accent, I'm nearly 60 now and it still sounds normal to me

Yeah well and couldn't understand it properly, word for word till I became more integrated into his family and heard it more and more often.

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I still get a warm fuzzy feeling when I hear a Jamaican accent and I know for sure if a 40 something Jamaican lady went in the house I would be routing for her to WIN. *wonders if that makes me racist*

No, I don't think so. I think that it's more a case of honing in on something that has a true
happy and positive memory for you. How can it NOT have an effect?

It's funny you should mention Jamaicans: I mixed a lot with them when I was a child. My best friend was from Jamaican parentage - she was actually my 1st real friend. I still recall her now, still 'see' us playing certain games, picture us sitting on my doorstep.....etc., etc.,

I think it says more about how positive you feel about a certain nationality - based on your experiences. Can't see anything "ist" about it myself.

Do you think if the nurse had been mean that you'd label all nurses or all Jamaicans as the same?
'Course not.

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LOL I am still puzzled to this day when people say they cant understand a Jamaican accent, I'm nearly 60 now and it still sounds normal to me

My husband's best friend is Jamaican and he calls once a week usually. If I answer the phone to him (which is rare cos I hate answering phones), I sometimes struggle with his accent.

I tend to laugh a lot whilst he's talking.

Only known him for 19 yrs!

Mind you...I used to struggle with my father in law too (he was from Barbados...died last year).

I am shite!