"Born In The USA!",but live and work in the DR!
I have worked long and hard to be able to speak Spanish,and then longer and harder to be able to understand and speak "Dominican"!I have what can be considered a "good" job in the Dominican Republic, not only because of my "business" skills,but because I can put those skill to work in the Spanish/Dominican speaking world! If you live and work in a country where you were not born,or where you don't speak the language, you will never be part of,or understand the politics or culture of that country!!!! This is why many of the posters on DR! who have lived for many years in the DR,and speak the language,and because of that can read the newspapers,and understand the news broadcasts,radio/TV,go balistic when someone who spends 7 nights at an "AI" starts telling us all about the DR,and even more irritating,it's people!!!!!!! For me the same holds true of peopl who emmigrate to the USA! If they don't learn "American"they will never be part of the "System"! They will suffer economically becuase the can't communicate! Teaching classes in foreign languages only serves to prolong the agony! Nobody taught the Italians or the Poles,or the Germans in their native languages.They learned "American",and they learned fast!!! Just as the Welfare system has only served to destroy the Black Culture,failure to learn "American" is destroying,or at least delaying the advancement of the non-English speaking minorities!.........AZB,If you speak Spanish where you came from,you are an "Hispanic" no matter what color you are.Just like if you are Cape Verdian" you are white(Portugese) no matter how Black you are.I have noticed that at least 1/2 of all the people in the world,the women, are pink on the inside.So I guess that means that "underneath" we are all the SAME!!!!! Live with THAT!!!!!....."AZB" learned English (Well almost!!!..Just kidding!)in NewYork,and I bet no one taught him in Pakistani at the same time!!!CRIS "Ariva Derchi","SawaDee",.."Bon Appetit",COLON