Our own aesthetics rather than seeking validation from our old colonial masters. all right. you said just a little while ago that when you came to the uk thinking you were going to be embraced by the mother country, as you saw it, that actually it made you feel more caribbean, and yet you say you feel at home in england as well as injamaica, so how do you reconcile the two? well, i ve.. england has changed over the years and i would like to think that my generation played a part in changing england. and in changing england, we ve changed ourselves. i have certain emotional ties to jamaica. um. i see myself as a jamaican. i still have. i ve retained myjamaican identity, but i m british, you know? i mean, let s face it, we have to face up to facts, i m british. i ve spent the vast majority of my life in this country and, um. yeah. i should just say that you also ....