Article Author: Júlio Bittencourt- Francisco

The present text has a personal vision of the author who work in Suriname for a drilling company in the search of oil & gas. It also accounts his point of view of the country and incorporates in it his culture and knowledge yet his view of the world of the time he wrote the text, the time that he lived and worked in the Surinamese country few years ago. The text brings historical, geographical, ethnic, and cultural aspects of Suriname with a foresight of a Brazilian and, in a way, brings the insights that he shares with his country as many characteristics that are also present in developing country in Latin America, but with a completely different aspects such as the Dutch colonization that is so very much different from the Latin way, predominant in the rest of South America. Ethnic, social, and political diversity, but also the configuration of its complex society, is surprising, being for the author a kind of alter ego of his own country, achievable mainly by empirical observation of how the Surinamese people deal with race, face coexistence with sparse resources, live among deep differences and struggle to survive with democracy

Keywords: Drilling; Suriname; Bush Negroes; Crioulo; Javanese; Hindustani; Paramaribo; Jews

Article Review Status: Published

Pages: 31 - 40

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