Verne, in an earlier post, I referenced a picture that I had seen of a black man being knighted by the queen. The grotesqueness of that picture conjures up the same thoughts of your picture with the man in his robes.

You wrote >>As such, even our learned few fall victim to this because we have developed an innate desire to be accepted.<<

So very, very true. And that's exactly what the Mighty Sparrow was saying when he sang those immortal words in DAN IS THE MAN "If me head was bright, Ah woulda be a **** fool." The man was light years ahead of us!

"But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honor, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house", American King James Version.
While that does not imply that we must embrace everything Caribbean whether good or not good, there remains a tendency for we in the Caribbean to believe that foreign things are better.

I am afraid that the colonial mentality as it relates the dependence on others is still prevalent.