Interview with an older Montserratian woman (narrator) originally from the United States, January 18, 2005:
Pages 6 and 7
MG: That’s sad to hear. Do you think that, uh, the younger generation has been affected by not having older people around?
Narrator: Yeah! Yeah, I do. And—and by having sort of this, this sub—substitute story tellers. Ya know, in the way of TV.
MG: Mhm.
Narrator: Rather than sittin’ around and chewing the fat, ya know, in the old days. Where, ya know, people would—that’s the way values were handed down, and that’s the way—I mean, you’d never see livestock just loose, back then, ya know, just loose and untied or unfenced. Ya know, unlooked after. Now they’re just all over the place eating everything. There’s been a—there’s a gap, ya know, of what I—I would say…that…the people like 70 years and older, I, I probably would draw the line about there. Not that there aren’t exceptions, but, that they had much more of a respect for—and this is probably true in any country—
MG: mmm
Narrator: that they had much more of a respect for, for God, for people, for nature, and for their, their neighbors, for, ya know, their fellow man. Much much more of a respect, much more careful, ya know, to keep the past ____behind them, and to, to do right…
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