I am writing a book, and it is now at the editing stage.
It is basically about my life here, and living and associating with people of a different culture - ie Dominicans.
She has said that some Dominicans in the book come across as ignorant (the English sense not the American one), naive, dumb and untrustworthy, and finds this difficult to believe. She is unsure that this applies to more than a very few (she has never been here), and wants me to expand on how a background of poverty and lack of education can form these traits.
In addition I need to address more the attitude of Dominicans men to women - within a relationship, whether the women be foreign or Dominican.
Now before certain board members leap all over me and said this is what you get from barrio trash, I would also value the opinions of those of you who associate exclusively with the upper classes, who possibily do not have the traits mentioned above, ie they are intelligent, bright and totally trustworthy, and shed light on the fact as to why they are this way, and part of the population not so. Is it that they were well educated, widely travelled, born into money etc?
I would really appreciate your thoughts and views.
Thanks
Matilda
It is basically about my life here, and living and associating with people of a different culture - ie Dominicans.
She has said that some Dominicans in the book come across as ignorant (the English sense not the American one), naive, dumb and untrustworthy, and finds this difficult to believe. She is unsure that this applies to more than a very few (she has never been here), and wants me to expand on how a background of poverty and lack of education can form these traits.
In addition I need to address more the attitude of Dominicans men to women - within a relationship, whether the women be foreign or Dominican.
Now before certain board members leap all over me and said this is what you get from barrio trash, I would also value the opinions of those of you who associate exclusively with the upper classes, who possibily do not have the traits mentioned above, ie they are intelligent, bright and totally trustworthy, and shed light on the fact as to why they are this way, and part of the population not so. Is it that they were well educated, widely travelled, born into money etc?
I would really appreciate your thoughts and views.
Thanks
Matilda