- People don't understand that the country isn't as rich as it used to be (?)
- Parents don't hit their kids anymore*
- Teachers don't hit their students anymore*
- Parents expect the teachers to hit their kids for them*
- Teachers expect parents to hit their students for them*
- There are too many outsiders
- Too many Martinicans have lived for a time in the mainland
- Martinicans are too closed-minded
- People don't respect boundaries and distance between each other anymore
- People don't treat each other like family and neighbors anymore
- There are too many people
- The island is too rural
- Too many people believe in local fairies and myths
- Too many people disrespect the local fairies and powers
- The mainland doesn't invest enough in Martinique
- Martinicans expect too much from the Mainland
- Martinicans didn't run of the békés with machetes when they had the chance
- People use online dictionaries
- Too many artist types are running around inadequately clothed
- Too few young people speak creole
- People don't speak French correctly
- Young people make up their own mix of French and English and use that instead of just one language
- The algae blooming because of fertilizer runoff from Brazil are giving off a gas that's going to people's heads
- Unemployment benefits are too generous
- Unemployment benefits are too sparse
- When feminism hit the Caribbean, French Caribbean men murdered their wives and / or became homeless
- Men here are generally too unemployed
- Young people here have access to higher education too easily (?)
- The kids act wild because they've been chloridconés**
*Corporal punishment for children has been illegal here for some time. Everyone still proudly claims they do it, though
**The runoff of chlodicone into non-banana fields and into the food and soil is a serious problem which you can read about in English here. While the pesticide does appear to have very serious deleterious health effects, I wouldn't go so far as to pin every instance of primary schoolboys misbehaving to it.
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