curious?
I am curious what your family tells you about gringos in particular, since it seems that they feel that gringos only come to the island for one thing, would anyone in your family be caught dead with a gringo, and if a female member of your family was to date a gringo would the rest of the family consider her to have a bad reputation.
I have heard this thing from many others, I myself know that when I used to live in Sosua sometimes it was easier when you met certain people to just say you were from Puerta Plata or possibly Cabarete, because as soon as the word Sosua slipped out of your mouth you were automatically labelled. To tell you the truth although I understand it, I still find it to be a bit judgemental, because like you since I lived there I did have the privlege of meeting quite a few people that lived, worked etc. in Sosua that weren't involved in prostitution. Although they lived there, they never went to the discos etc. I always felt it was so sad and unfair, that because they lived there, or their family was from there they had to be labelled like that.
The other side of the story is, guess what if you met your girl in a disco in Sosua, more than likely she was there because she was working, and that is the way it is as well. But I have actually brought friends to the disco in Sosua to hang and dance with me, and they had never been there before, it is kind of sad to think because I brought them there and they were seen with me a gringo, if someone from their neighborhood saw them there they would be labelled for life.