Use your brain and you will be just fine.
Stay away from drugs, bad gringos and most important- Falling in love with the first and best dominican male who gives you sooooo much special attention.
Actually, falling in love with THE RIGHT kind of Dominican could be a fabulous experience...Unfortunately some gringas seem to have the ABSOLUTELY WORST POSSIBLE TASTE on Dominican men (yeah, even physically... AWFUL TASTE)....but beauty (or lack of) is not their problem...they seem to be fatally attracted to "low-lives", characters without a steady job (or a menial one), with minimal education, even without a steady home, etc. etc. THEY DO A HORRIBLE JOB OF CHOOSING THE DOMINICANS THEY MIX WITH...
And of course they pay for it...dearly....
Mind you, these are often college-educated women, professionals, who in their own country wouldn't even give the time of day to a man with the same characteristics as the Dominican men they befriend (they'd call them hill billies, uneducated w-trash, and what not... believe me, at home they would NEVER EVER date a man of the "stature" of the Dominican men they befriend).
Eventually they come to a place like this to... bitch about....you guessed it... ALL DOMINICAN MEN....
If they chose Dominican men with the same criteria they choose men back home, meaning finding men who are actually COMPATIBLE with them, it would be a different story... Some eventually figure it out...some NEVER EVER do...
IT IS THEIR LOUSY TASTE their problem.
Choose Dominicans as you would choose friends back home and you'll be fine...If you don't find them, then keep looking, and live without them while searching.