wventura said:
You use way too many quotation marks, but I would have to agree with what you said.
He does use too many quotations, but that's cc.
Anyhow, I won't tell you what to believe.
But, generally, whenever something positive is posted about the DR, it's often referred to as a lie.
However, whenever something negative is posted about the DR, it's often referred to as the almighty truth.
Now I wonder, is it me or are people more inclined to accept negative info without justification rather than positive info with justification?
You say, the DR is doomed, and everybody praises you.
You say, the DR has an economy that its growing again and everybody asked one of the following:
Where did you got that info from?
Show the sources
That is a lie
etc etc etc
However, you say the US is great and everybody praises you.
You say, the US is the number one drug consumer in the World and much of the Drug trade is due to that heavy demand eminating from that country and everybody says one of the following:
Yeah, but xyz...
Show me the sources
Where did you came up with that
That is a lie
Or they point to fault to those blacks and Hispanics in the inner cities or to the cocaine drug lords in Colombia.
Or they simply call you an "anti-American".
My question is this:
Why does this pattern exist?
Why is it that positive news of the US are taken as almighty truth, but positive news of the DR needs justification?
Why does negative news from the DR is taken as the almighty truth with no further explanation needed and negative news from US needs further justification?
Even when two different reports (one on US economy and the other on DR economy) is done by a prominent American company (ie. Ernst and Young).
For some reason, people accept their evaluation of the US economy more easily than their evaluation of the DR economy if both evaluations were positive.
But the both evaluations were negative, most people disregard the US one but fully accept the DR one.
Even though both reports were conducted by the same highly respected company!
It just seems that people are a bit pessimistic about anything Dominican.
Or it could just be ignorance.
After all, the only people who keep saying that anything positive about the DR is a lie are Americans.
Read any book written about the DR and the one's who make the biggest fuss about the race issue, the economic issue, the cultural issue, etc are those books written by some American authors or by Dominican authors who have lived in the US.
I'm not trying to bash the US or their authors or anything, but I'm trying to figure out why is this the case?
And why do people put so much validity to the US when it comes to the racial issue?
South Africa (of all places) got their inspiration for their apartheid system from Good old USA. Many of their sergrationist laws were based on the American Jim Crow laws. This is something that has been revealed by many sociologist and historians who have focused their attention on South Africa's Apartheid and why it occured.
The US is even recognized as the only country in the world to use the one drop rule attitude towards race. No other country in the world does such thing.
Even with all of that, people still put more weight to the US way of looking at race. Actually, only the people who have lived in the US put so much attention to such wrong and racist way of looking at race.
I just don't understand why this is the case and I would like for someone to intelligently in a civilized manner would answer my ultimate question that lies behind this post of mine!
Why is this the case?