A few observations
I have lots of stories which serve to illuminate nothing more than a small corner of one person's experience.
However these things made me chuckle:
If I tell Haitians 7:00 AM Monday, in my experience they will be there around 7:00pm Monday.
Not so with Dominicans, for the most part.
The ones that do show at 7:00 Monday will convince me on Wednesday to pay them for half the week for some emergency or other.
That is the last I am likely to see of them.
Corruption in Haiti is honest.
In the Dominican Republic they all set not just their own price, but what they perceive as your price. Both will rise at Christmas.
Haitian corruption will be the same this week as last and next.
A (lucky) Haitian who finishes school but does not enter "higher education" leaves at age 21with a typical academic achievement of a 1st year U.S. college student. (Bit skeptical about this, but that is what I have been told.)
One time I bought 30 Chicklets @ 1 peso a piece. The person serving (mid twenties)punched into the calculator 1 *30 =, then she read the result before announcing what every Haitian would have rightly assumed.
God's honest truth!
O.k., now I really start to get bigoted!
I bet that given a choice of 100 pesos per day for a year, or 1000 pesos now, the average Dominican moto-concho dude would take the 1000. There seems to be no connection in the Dominican mind between actions today and happenings tomorrow.
This criticism is not scientific, justified nor negative. The reason a lot of people who read this message board live in Dominican Republic is because they yearn to ?live for the day.? I applaud this culture, but it is totally different to an average Haitian outlook. For whatever reasons, Haitians seem to be more motivated. (Other than the by dancing, drinking and having a good time) This last point is why I love Dominican epublicI have lots of stories which serve to illuminate nothing more than a small corner of one person's experience.
However these things made me chuckle:
If I tell Haitians 7:00 AM Monday, in my experience they will be there around 7:00pm Monday.
Not so with Dominicans, for the most part.
The ones that do show at 7:00 Monday will convince me on Wednesday to pay them for half the week for some emergency or other.
That is the last I am likely to see of them.
Corruption in Haiti is honest.
In the Dominican Republic they all set not just their own price, but what they perceive as your price. Both will rise at Christmas.
Haitian corruption will be the same this week as last and next.
A (lucky) Haitian who finishes school but does not enter "higher education" leaves at age 21with a typical academic achievement of a 1st year U.S. college student. (Bit skeptical about this, but that is what I have been told.
One time I bought 30 Chicklets @ 1 peso a piece. The person serving (mid twenties)punched into the calculator 1 *30 =, then she read the result before announcing what every Haitian would have rightly assumed.
God's honest truth!
O.k., now I really start to get bigoted!
I bet that given a choice of 100 pesos per day for a year, or 1000 pesos now, the average Dominican moto-concho dude would take the 1000. There seems to be no connection in the Dominican mind between actions today and happenings tomorrow.
This criticism is not scientific, justified nor negative. The reason a lot of people who read this message board live in Dominican Republic is because they yearn to ?live for the day.? I applaud this culture, but it is totally different to an average Haitian outlook. For whatever reasons, Haitians seem to be more motivated. (Other than the by dancing, drinking and having a good time) The last point is why I love this place the most.
Like I say, I am not normally given to generalizations like my racist unlce Sandro, but I am being honest as well as superficial.
What do you think?