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Why Would A Dominican Hate U.S. People?
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They're one and the same. If I run out of money how would I know who my real friends are unless I had been giving people money or buying them drinks or whatnot? You are implying that once the money is gone so too are the fair weather friends.
As far as being a "tourist" the defintion would be a person who lives one place that goes to another to vacation.
True!!!!!! So very true!!!!!
I worked in the Empire State Building for 2 years. I have never visited the top. (example)
Dominicans hate Americans because...
of the ignorant things Americans say about Dominicans and other cultures. I read some of the stuff in this forum and I don't recognize myself. I visit my family in DR every couple of years and I experience "normal life:" My family members taking their children to soccer practice, karate, piano lessons, the orthodontist, the movies; deciding which school to send them to, planning their vacations. Of course there are the negative things that we all know, awful driving, bad electricity, corrupt leaders, pot holes... but it seems to me that the people who write in this forum only hang out at "colmados," and ride "motoconchos." If that's what you do, what do you expect? Has anyone hung out around around the pawn shop neighborhoods of American cities? That's what "colmados" remind me of. Anyway, my point is that there are different perspectives depending on the places and people that you are connected to. I have been an expat in Europe and in South America and it's the same conversation everywhere, expats blabing about how awful their host country is and how much better life is in the US. Then what are you doing there? Go back and be happy.
of the ignorant things Americans say about Dominicans and other cultures. I read some of the stuff in this forum and I don't recognize myself. I visit my family in DR every couple of years and I experience "normal life:" My family members taking their children to soccer practice, karate, piano lessons, the orthodontist, the movies; deciding which school to send them to, planning their vacations. Of course there are the negative things that we all know, awful driving, bad electricity, corrupt leaders, pot holes... but it seems to me that the people who write in this forum only hang out at "colmados," and ride "motoconchos." If that's what you do, what do you expect? Has anyone hung out around around the pawn shop neighborhoods of American cities? That's what "colmados" remind me of. Anyway, my point is that there are different perspectives depending on the places and people that you are connected to. I have been an expat in Europe and in South America and it's the same conversation everywhere, expats blabing about how awful their host country is and how much better life is in the US. Then what are you doing there? Go back and be happy.
I was in complete agreement when you said it the first time. The same conversations that I heard 30 years ago at the square in Cuernavaca is happening on the internet in the DR. Sometimes almost verbatim. The similarities are scary.
I am a boricua and thanks for that.
You made my afternoon.
On that note, this 5 year old thread is closed.
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