My 22 year old son recently returned from Canada and asked me why there were so few young people his age in T&T. He said that he had noticed that there were very few young people his age in the country while there were a lot of kids aged zero to about 18. After he had told me this I decided to conduct my usual very unscientific survey and discovered that he was right; there is a dearth of young people here in T&T from about 18 to about 35.
While it is probably true that a lot of them have gone away to study, it is also probably true that a lot of these young people are simply not returning home preferring to take the cold and living far away from their families because they believe that they will be better off in, say Canada, then here at home in T&T. Put another way, it is likely that they believe that they will have more opportunities with a higher standard of living throughout, than here at home.
Now, if my analysis is correct then the logical conclusion is that we are in the throes of a devastating brain drain that will adversely affect the country because the best and the brightest of our young people are simply not coming back. We can't afford to keep losing our young people like this.
Personally I found that most educated and travelled people have the tendency to wanted to explore foreign horizons. The young people who are exposed to a foreign culture, language will be more daring to try something new! By be more out going, curious and bold,
ReplyDeleteand open minded they realize soon or later that TT life is not bad but type of opportunities they may find in TT do not meet what they are looking in the long run for their future!
Rosemonde .