EVERY ethnic group has its own story to tell. These stories many vary in complexities, but they may also be very similar to those of other ethnic groups. In any multiethnic society, all the ethnic groups experience, and learn to adjust to the different circumstances with which they are faced. Their approach to individual circumstances may differ, and while ethnic groups have cultural values that are dear to them as a group, there are many societal or universal values that all ethnicities embrace.

There is no bad ethnic group. Likewise, there is not necessarily only one good ethnic group in any given society. However, what is of fundamental importance to understanding ethnicity and the general mistrust that emanates amongst these groups is that within these ethnic groups, exist individuals who act as instigators of ethnic hostility, to ultimately segregate and conquer the masses of their ethnic kind for their own gains. Hence, ethnic conflict is avoidable.
Unemployment is a common concern for all Guyanese; it is not limited to one specific ethnic group. These individuals who claim to be representing ethnic interests exploit this concern in order to maintain their systematic domination of these groups. It is never good for one to be involuntarily unemployed, but this is a problem that comes back to the absorptive capacity of the economy to meaningfully occupy and engage skilled individuals into the job market. In 2010, the University of Guyana churned out 1,400 graduates from its Turkeyen campus. There simply are not enough jobs out there to meet such a demand in the labour force. Nonetheless, these instigators use the unemployment situation, and many others, to push their case of ethnic inequalities befalling only their ethnic kind.

Their goal is to convince the Guyanese people that the PPP government is an ‘Indian’ government, representing and furthering the interests of Indians at the expense of other ethnicities. Their façade that Africans are marginalized by being deliberately denied jobs is false and insincere. They insult the qualifications and experience of those Africans who have secured good jobs by labelling them mere ‘tokens’ that serve to make the PPP look good for having a few ‘blacks’ in position. Unemployment is not equivalent to marginalization, as unemployment is experienced by all ethnic groups. It stretches across the board. We cannot conclude that a person is marginalized because they are unemployed. Unemployment impacts Guyanese of all ethnicities.