The government does not put enough money into education and this loud noise only adds to the dumbing down of the intelligence quotient in DR. It is difficult to make people understand that all cultural things, are not good for them. This cultural behaviour only reinforces why foreigners should consider DR as a playground and not a place to conduct serious business. It is difficult to understand how Dominicans expect their children to study in this type of environment. This type of behaviour should be outlawed as DR need to produce super intelligent children, who will be able to pull their country out of it's third world status. There is no way anyone can learn in an environment where noise pollution is accepted.
But who am I! Just a stupid foreigner who goes to DR for some fun but would never make a serious investment there. Mainly because this is one of the most destructive behaviours of the society.
Some may say that it is not this way in all the neighbourhoods. That maybe true but the behaviour is so pervasive, that I find the DR can only be taken in small doses.
there is a study that shows that no Nobel Prize winner ever grew up in a noisy environment. the DR has got to be, hands down, the noisiest place on earth. people LOVE noise. i see guys take their motorcycles to the muffler shop, to cut out the baffles. this way, the thing emits 150 decibels, as he rides. every place of business has some horrific audio producing machine, playing bachata, from dusk , till dawn. six guys will park beside each other, and they will all open their liftgates, simultaneously, and proceed to bombard the area with cacophonous artillery, all trying to outdo each other. no wonder people all shout here...their hearing is shot. the kids cannot learn anything, because chronic , and acute, noises, have impaired their perceptibility. sad, but true.