Oh yeah, they're a real class act; they left their garbage all over the grass.

I often think of Matsu, a figure in Taiwanese folk religions, who it is said guided the first Chinese settlers of Taiwan through the brutal seas at night and came to their rescue. With a benevolent heart, Matsu is like a mother. The two gods who accompany Matsu, one with eyes that can see 1000 li⁶ and the other with ears that can hear far over the horizon, represent empathy, observation, and feeling. Government should be like Matsu, equipped with acute powers of observation; see clearly to the bottom of issues, and know how to respond. There is a hierarchy among Matsu and her attendant gods, but they divide labor according to their strengths and work together in a truly perfect partnership.

Now this door, which had been left ajar by Polly when she ran off, opened into a little courtyard where the fowls were shut in at night; the woodhouse and the privy also stood there.

Rejecting the “Europeanity” and “Africanity” they see in Négritude, Créolité pleads for an internal vision of the Caribbean focused on the French Caribbean realities: “Lavision intérieure,” which can be reached by writing in Creole.