As for…”many people don’t know why Bermuda is one of the safest places to live or visit”, this is disolving, we all see that, but its safe t say that this erosion is not due to adopted children.

Apologies for the political reference…at the moment there is far to much community polarization due to political affiliation. At the end of the day we all want what is best for the community as a whole, but that message sometimes gets lost in political noise.

The difference has to do with the why Culture passed on.

someone with at less one Bermudian parent will have more access to more Bermudian Culture than me who both parent expat. it is only logical given one of the keys way culture is passed on is through family. the child will have the opportunity to Be around Bermudian Culture and learn from the grand parents uncles aunties.

They learn things like why we do/don’t eat, say, fight for support certain things. why thing are the way they are. they learn about plants insects animals. traditions why and where they came from there is so much the list could go on and on .however all of these things are sucked up into a person and form and Culture.

and NO the countries you listed are similar how ever not the same. Because there is only one Bermuda. all it takes is for you to look online at the news all over there world to see how Bermuda is vastly different.

Why are so many things happening all over the world but not in Bermuda. To me it is so mind blowing.
one think I know is everyone needs to figure it out and protect it.

Culture is just as important as an ecosystem and the effects caused by tempering with it can be just as drastic.

Example I was apart of the generation that live through the poorly planed tempering of the public school system. and I lay witness to the effects it had on the Bermudian Culture.

when we mess with things like that and this we must think very very carefully before we act.

nothing in my post said anything about plp or oba. no one party should have an ill earned monopoly. This is how dictatorship leading and both parties have been guilty of this.

many people don’t know why Bermuda is one of the safest places to live or visit.

I know that it is the culture that makes it this way. I have watch the culture shift and the safety expect along with it.
the culture protect the country.

at the age of 18 you are an adult and will not easily be affected or even want to learn about Bermudian culture.

culture is something that get merged into a person as they grow in a family apart of a community. Culture is passed on though parents teachers and elders and in some country even the Government take responsibility for passing on and protecting Culture.

Bermuda is a small place and if there is an influx of persons that are not affected by and make decisions in the interest the local Culture the change will be easily seen.

Bermuda must be care full not to open itself up to cultural genocide because when that happen we will be just like the rest of the world.

Are you saying that people would adopt purely to gain votes? Or are you saying that someone who has wanted to adopt would now vote for the current government because their adopted child was given status. Or that the adoptee would vote for the current government because they were given status? How many of these people are we talking about?

Are human rights and common sense now secondary to whom someone might vote for? I hope that’s not what you’re saying. If these people signed a piece of paper pledging that they would vote PLP for life, would then everything be OK? Honestly, that concerns me a lot. Is power and control that important?

If it is…I’m certainly not trying to discredit you at all…I’m trying to understand why you would feel that way…because isn’t that really what needs to be resolved for the island to move forward and isn’t this unquestionably the root of a lot of our issues. Suspicion and distrust must exist for a reason. All opinions and perspectives count in my books, whether I agree with them or not.

This is how real Bermudians are made it take generations.
Bermuda is not some shallow club where you pay your dues and get to vote on is we sell part of the club house or paint it.

you need to know the history of that club house because it may mean more then you know.

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this process is xenophobic and ridiculous

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Saw this coming from a mile away. 18 is an adult not a child.

I can adopt myself votes and pass anything into law I want.

Bermuda don’t fall for this one. If you spent 18 years of your life in another country how can you call your self Bermudian and want to vote as a Bermudian? whats going to happen is they will vote in Bermuda as a whatever their country of origin is. As a voting person, how can you have Bermuda’s best interest at heart is you do not know Bermudian culture?

Don’t want to put in the time or work. Just feel they deserve it.

I was in the construction industry long enough to see it. Any fool can lay a few blocks, or hang some drywall.

Learn a trade first.

For the record. Until about ten years ago (when the plp got greedy and rich) there wher jobs a plenty

You don’t have to like it. Just learn it

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This is a ridiculous and xenophobic process – says he & the OBA.

If they tried to pass that into law you would find a problem with it to whine about.

That’s exactly what this group is proposing (well and persons arriving here before the age of 6). It sounds like they’re less impressed with the other aspects of that Pathways bill. So your issue is ….?