The attitude toward the use of Jamaican Creole reflects certain privileges and certain beliefs. For some persons Jamaican Creole will never be accepted as a language. Many persons see patois as an inferior language that is often considered to be debased, unbecoming or crude. Social attitude and misconceptions about Jamaican Creole had their genesis in the fact that the Creole is linked with slavery.
Some of the attitudes that persons have of Jamaican Creole and Creole-Speakers are listed below:
1. Creole is back yard talk
2. Creole gets you nowhere
3. Creole is for uneducated persons
4. Users of Creole are seen as persons who talk bad ( chat bad)
5. Creole speakers have no class
6. Creole belongs to a lower class
7. Use of Creole shows a lack of ambition and makes you unemployable as no one will employ you when you speak Creole.
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