Would there be a Productos Sosúa or even Sosúa without their arrival?
What if instead of the Jews, aborigines from Australia would had been settled in Sosúa? Same results?
Is there a Productos Sosúa version created in Puerto Rico, Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica before it appeared in the DR? What about salami, which is now a staple of Dominican breakfasts? Why not?
Seeing things with different eyes?
Celery was another one never planted in the DR ,ever because not even in colonial times, and Dominicans didn’t eat it since it wasn’t available. The Spanish that settled Constanza in the 1940's changed that.
Same with strawberries, apples, etc. Dominicans would had never ate them nor the DR produce them if it wasn’t for the Japanese and Spanish immigrants.
The guy that made Sirena into what it is, is himself from Spain. He was inspired to immigrate to the DR in the 1960’s because in the village he grew up in Spain people talked a lot about Santo Domingo. Would Sirena, Sirena Market, Aprexio, etc ever become what it’s if he never immigrated to the DR? Is it really that hard to not see the connection when in neighboring Haiti, Nicaragua, Honduras, etc never received such immigration and where are there Sirenas? That has become the largest private employer in the DR. Would those 5,000+ employees throughout the DR have a formal job today if he never migrated from Spain?
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