James-Bryan, MerylThe University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago2015-09-212015-09-2119-Feb-84James-Bryan, Meryl. "Long Live the Carnival Mentality". Sunday Express. 19 Feb. 1984: 53+. Print.https://hdl.handle.net/2139/40714This article comments about the popular negative perception of the "Carnival mentality" which is a perfect example of what seems to be a national tendency to berate, devalue and discredit everything indigenous as irrelevant, second-class, negative or a non-existent non-starter.©Trinidad Express Newspapers. This material is protected under Copyright Act of Trinidad and Tobago. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research.Steel bands (Music) -- Trinidad and TobagoPopular culture -- Trinidad and TobagoCarnival -- Trinidad and Tobago