....i am going to ramble on a bit here, but there is a point to this....honest.
santo domingo is a curious place......i always believe homosexuals are tolerated, and the topic taboo.
a dominican girl who worked with us was/is a lesbian, everyone knew it and she didn't keep it a secret. everyone was really nice to her face, but if anyone talked about her behind her back, the inevitable would eventually pop up...."you know she's a lesbian?".
that in itself is nothing...i can say that without flinching, but i found that most dominicans, be it men or women, would say it and screw their face up at the same time, waiting for a reaction, perhaps, of disgust...like...."urrgh! oh no! that's disgusting", but they are usually just as surprised when they don't get that reaction.
i love to see pretty ladies frolicking about in the nude....there's usually a tv channel in the early hours that shows two, three, even four girls in a bath, or in a bed together......when i wake the wife up, she goes ballistic....."that's disgusting" she says, followed by if you don't turn the telly off...i'm going to sleep in the kids' room", etc.
i've put these mentalities down to education......no i've never been educated in the finer arts of homosexuality, but in europe and north america (as well as other parts of the world), i'm sure the schools, the media, the church, etc......have all combined one way or another to help most of us accept (or maybe, not accept) this different way of living.
i'm not sure the same could be said about your average dominican....i don't think the majority are ever exposed to this way of life (i don't mean just by some dirty old man). if they are, it's nearly always in a negative light (....what's the positive light of homosexuality? ............apart from the fact you don't get pregnant).
an example of something different, but which you may be able to identify more, is what you are bound to observe when going to the beach with a dominican, or any american for that fact, and you see a girl with her mammaries flopping around.....okay.....a nubile young french girl in her twenties is one thing, but the americans (including dominicans) would go potty about a fat, eastern european woman in her fifties going topless....."look at her", they'd say...."catch a load of that. phwoarr!".........but this is an everyday occurrence for your average beach-going european....and he normally wouldn't bat an eyelid......not so for the average american (including dominicans) who has been starved so much of these delights, he'ĺl drool over any old thing(s).
well that's the bit about tolerance and taboo.
now the next bit,
santo domingo does seem to be a haven for people, especially foreigners, of the shirt-lifting persuasion - so it does seem a bit odd that the u.s. would consider asylum for somebody who claims to be persecuted just for being gay....when, if they just looked at their own records they can see that a large quantity of their own gay citizens spend a lot of their holidays here .......just in case, i'll add.....why would they, if the people here supposedly persecute homosexuals to such an extent that the local 'boys and girls' need to leave?
no...there's definitely more to that story......and i'm sure many of the previous posters already pinned it down.
finally.
i'm thinking of going to 'nu jork' and as people always tell me that you are free to do and say what you want in the u.s. and that there is also a lot of money for the taking there....even on the streets....i thought i would try a 'b' plan in case the 'yola' doesn't take off.
the homosexuality stuff does sound like a good scam to get myself one of those 'green cards'.....but as i said before, i have no desire to "take it up the behind"......do you think the americans (the u.s ones) would consider giving me asylum for another kind of sexual orientation?......................i saw a nice looking goat the other day.
santo domingo is a curious place......i always believe homosexuals are tolerated, and the topic taboo.
a dominican girl who worked with us was/is a lesbian, everyone knew it and she didn't keep it a secret. everyone was really nice to her face, but if anyone talked about her behind her back, the inevitable would eventually pop up...."you know she's a lesbian?".
that in itself is nothing...i can say that without flinching, but i found that most dominicans, be it men or women, would say it and screw their face up at the same time, waiting for a reaction, perhaps, of disgust...like...."urrgh! oh no! that's disgusting", but they are usually just as surprised when they don't get that reaction.
i love to see pretty ladies frolicking about in the nude....there's usually a tv channel in the early hours that shows two, three, even four girls in a bath, or in a bed together......when i wake the wife up, she goes ballistic....."that's disgusting" she says, followed by if you don't turn the telly off...i'm going to sleep in the kids' room", etc.
i've put these mentalities down to education......no i've never been educated in the finer arts of homosexuality, but in europe and north america (as well as other parts of the world), i'm sure the schools, the media, the church, etc......have all combined one way or another to help most of us accept (or maybe, not accept) this different way of living.
i'm not sure the same could be said about your average dominican....i don't think the majority are ever exposed to this way of life (i don't mean just by some dirty old man). if they are, it's nearly always in a negative light (....what's the positive light of homosexuality? ............apart from the fact you don't get pregnant).
an example of something different, but which you may be able to identify more, is what you are bound to observe when going to the beach with a dominican, or any american for that fact, and you see a girl with her mammaries flopping around.....okay.....a nubile young french girl in her twenties is one thing, but the americans (including dominicans) would go potty about a fat, eastern european woman in her fifties going topless....."look at her", they'd say...."catch a load of that. phwoarr!".........but this is an everyday occurrence for your average beach-going european....and he normally wouldn't bat an eyelid......not so for the average american (including dominicans) who has been starved so much of these delights, he'ĺl drool over any old thing(s).
well that's the bit about tolerance and taboo.
now the next bit,
santo domingo does seem to be a haven for people, especially foreigners, of the shirt-lifting persuasion - so it does seem a bit odd that the u.s. would consider asylum for somebody who claims to be persecuted just for being gay....when, if they just looked at their own records they can see that a large quantity of their own gay citizens spend a lot of their holidays here .......just in case, i'll add.....why would they, if the people here supposedly persecute homosexuals to such an extent that the local 'boys and girls' need to leave?
no...there's definitely more to that story......and i'm sure many of the previous posters already pinned it down.
finally.
i'm thinking of going to 'nu jork' and as people always tell me that you are free to do and say what you want in the u.s. and that there is also a lot of money for the taking there....even on the streets....i thought i would try a 'b' plan in case the 'yola' doesn't take off.
the homosexuality stuff does sound like a good scam to get myself one of those 'green cards'.....but as i said before, i have no desire to "take it up the behind"......do you think the americans (the u.s ones) would consider giving me asylum for another kind of sexual orientation?......................i saw a nice looking goat the other day.
