Delanie Pacino
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I'm a 20 yo local, never had the chance to be out of the country, I come from two poor Dominican families, and reading some of the threads out here puts you into perspective about how people see things when they are in a different position, let me give you the local perspective: It feels like you're looking at us from above, observing our behaviors like in an Animal Planet documentary, ''Dominicans don't smile as much as they used to'', ''Things are so expensive now, I'd rather go to Thailand'' well, sorry for not fulfilling your vacation expectations, but we also dislike the noise, the augmenting lack of education, the corruption, the motorists, we feel unsafe, our justice system is useless so we ain't got no one to go to, and thanks to all of this and GENTRIFICATION, which you all play a part of, everyday things are more expensive to us, we can't afford shit, but the difference is we don't get to hop on a plane when the ''DR fatigue'' gets us, we gotta suck it in, and our government doesn't do shit either but we can't choose a better one, because this is a ''democracy'' despite people selling their vote for a pica pollo and 500 pesos.
But hey, I don't judge you, if I had the chance to earn a gringo salary and come to live on a tropical island where I'd live a good life, I would do the same as you, salvation is individual, and that doesn't mean y'all ain't got the right to dislike certain things either. I just think some of you are a bit delusional and insensitive with some of your comments, that's all...
Hope it helps to see other cosmovisions.