Not to get all pedantic (ha ha), but to me the "jammin" says Jamaican, the "be" says African American.

I'm with brenda, but my second choice is cheesy early 90'sian.

What nationality (if any) does the phrase "We be jammin(g)" evoke for people?

Jamaican because I always thought the song was considered reggae.

Not to get all pedantic (ha ha), but to me the "jammin" says Jamaican, the "be" says African American.

But you're ignoring the common linguistic roots. Patois, especially when spoken by Rastas does use that same construction of the verb to be.

To me it's a Jamaican thing, driven in no small part by the repetition of "Jammin" by Bob Marley. It's even more Jamaican when it's on a mug beneath a picture of dancing dreadlocked men wearing red green and gold, and I wonder why the US Virgin Islands can't get their own freaking identity.

I'm with Brenda and msbelle.

Sumi, AH! That makes more sense about the Sloane/Jack thing. Well not the slash thing per se, but the two of them fighting crime again. Or something like that. I think I was spoiled on who will play Elena, but now I can't remember any more.

Dude, I'm calming myself down by basically imagining the death of every single person now extant in this world, and you're trying to harsh that mellow? I really don't think that's the road you want to go down just now.

brenda, I have to say, I'd had the thought too. Them later folks will suck too, worse, they won't know the books or movies I know, so they'll be culturally-illiterate. It's a shame, really.

What nationality (if any) does the phrase "We be jammin(g)" evoke for people?

Victorian. Isn't that nice Marley chap written up in Dickens?

US Virgin Islands can't get their own freaking identity

Do they have the same shared heritage of patois? Also, they can't get their own identity cause someone already has Virginians covered.

But you're ignoring the common linguistic roots. Patois, especially when spoken by Rastas does use that same construction of the verb to be.

Not ignoring, just ignorant. (Speaking of common roots, huh.)

Poor Virgin Islanders, they've got nothing.

Victorian.

When did that become a nationality? Or is it Victorian in the same way Bride and Prejudice is?

Do they have the same shared heritage of patois?

They may have a patois. They're unlikely to have a shared heritage of Rastafarians, though. Unless I missed something big.

Poor Virgin Islanders, they've got nothing

What are you talking about?

1) they are US - obviously the bestest country ever - God loves the US - listen to W.
2) they are virgins - God loves virgins, not to mention their value on the black market
3) they are islands - islands never cry.