Life and Debt

Yes, I do think that the film shows colonialism because many of the resources that Jamaica received are from oustside the country. Everything is mostly imported and the resources that they produce themselves for the local people are really expensive. So the poor people can't afford it. International Monetary Fund is usually the one who is giving the money to this country and that is how the country could mantain itself. We could compare this form of colonialism by showing how in the story from Jamaica Kincaid called "A Small Place" illustrates how Antigua was governed by the British, and how this place was before it gained their independence.

I think that International Monetary Fund is the one who has the control of this country. It has control because they are the one who says what kind of production could be made and what they could not produce. One example of this was the bananas, in other countries the banana they produce was cheaper and the bananas that Jamaica produce was more expensive because the resources like the seeds and the soil is imported. The IMF maintains this power by if they dont give the money to this country to maintain itself, then Jamaica will have unemployed people, and there will be more poor people that is already is. One thing that Jamaicans could do or the goverment could do is to set more Free Zones, so that these people will not have to work with taxes and they could earn an amount of money to support their family.

The connection that I see between this film with other texts is how some of the countries are still somehow governed by other countries and how they are usually in control. It could be economically or just beacuse of resources, like the oil. Like in the first text that we read by Obama we could see how Indonesia was still influence by the United States. We could see how they have overthrown the governor of that country and how later Obama saw that they wanted to decide in Indonesia.