I think.ole time Caribbean parents were strict. Not these new dancehall parents. Ole time Caribbean parents lived under white colonialism, racism, classism, and poverty. They struggled to get out of poverty and in order to get out they knew education would be the key and push their children to get an education. The level of motivation was mostly negative which included physical abuse in the form of ass whoopings which was derived from the brutal punishments Caribbean slaves endured which were far more brutal and unique than to any other slave system
But that's all old time blacks, at least in the west. I think it depends on where you lived as far as in America. If your parents were form the south, you got a whipping,had to go to church, and not be in grown folks business, etc. I got a whipping everyday until i was 16! All it did was make me become more slick in doing my dirt, and have fear of my mother. What's funny is my sister, and my cousin who did go to college, and graduated, didn't go through what I went through, so that asswhipping shyt don't work, unless the child is weak, to me. When she took away my dj equipment, that's when she saw how to get me, because I was so nice after that!
If your parents were from the innercity, it was till about respecting your elders, but hanging out was more tolerated, and that is where a lot of the problems came from. I think the reason why is back then there wasn't anything to do. There were only a couple of channels, and even then there weren't that many tvs in the house, so parents let the kids outside. The issue is int he inner city you had crime all over the place, while in small towns, it wasn't like that, so the outcomes were different.
I think people who try to compare Africans, caribbeans, and AA, are people from small areas, or rural areas, and tend to immigrate to big cities, and think that's how it is for most AA. I had both sides, so I know its the same shyt. I bet if you ask someone from the heart of Kingston, their answers would be just like mine!