I am a DR1 member who, after a couple of years of mostly reading posts and doing few commenting, finally made the move to DR. I must admit, getting settled in has been more challenging than I had imagined, but finally I am beginning to see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel.
What I am surprised by is the few negative experiences that I've had with Dominicans here in Santiago (centre de Cuidad region) but the few positive experiences that I've had with fellow gringos here.
Why must it be assumed that because I am a gringo that I am here to have sex with a bunch of Dominican women? Even if I was such a person of moral ineptitude, why assume that I want to sit around and talk about it?
Dude! Can't we have an intelligent conversation about business opportunities, getting to know local culture and customs, a beautiful monogamous relationship that you've established and maintained with a Dominicana, baseball, the weather, heck anything other than stories of cheap sex and the fulfillment of your obvious pedophile fantasies?
I've only been here a few months but I'm starting to develop the ability to spot these obnoxious trolls a mile away and avoid them like the plague. Which unfortunately has led me to develop another stereotype (that I really need to work on ridding myself of) that causes me to typically avoid any Dominican woman who has a child from a gringo 'relationship' that didn't result in marriage. My stereotypical assumption is that the 'jimmie hat' sprung a leak when this prostitute was doing the rapido with one of these same gringo types that I've been trying to avoid.
I keep a personal diary of my experiences here in my newly adopted country. I am not some high and mighty model of piety looking down his nose on people. I just try to live a 'balanced life' and don't like it when others make asinine assumptions. Now before the anti-religious DR1 warhawks swoop down upon me and brand me a 'Jesus freak' let me share a little something from my diary.
[My conversation with the 'chula de barrio' a few moments ago as she approached me on my way from the colmado]
She: Se?or, I have been watching you and there is something very different about you that I find very attractive.
Me: Gracias. But what do you find so different about me?
She: I notice that you do not drink cervesa or alcohol. You do not smoke. I don't see you with many different women like the other gringos. Are you a Christian?
Me: No. But I am a follower of Jesus Christ and a believer in the message that he brought us and in his ultimate return.
She: How can you proclaim this and not be a Christian?
Me: if you spent years teaching me what you knew and instructing me in your way, but after you left me, another people came and claimed that you taught me something different. If I reject what you taught me and accept what these people taught me and attribute it to you, am I following you or am I following these other people?
She: you would definitely not be following me.
Me: In order for me to call myself Christian, I have to reject what Jesus Christ taught and accept concepts that he didn't teach but were introduced by others and attributed to him. So what are you....a Christian?
She: jejeje...No comment.
[NOTE to self...MAKE IT PLAIN!]
What I am surprised by is the few negative experiences that I've had with Dominicans here in Santiago (centre de Cuidad region) but the few positive experiences that I've had with fellow gringos here.
Why must it be assumed that because I am a gringo that I am here to have sex with a bunch of Dominican women? Even if I was such a person of moral ineptitude, why assume that I want to sit around and talk about it?
Dude! Can't we have an intelligent conversation about business opportunities, getting to know local culture and customs, a beautiful monogamous relationship that you've established and maintained with a Dominicana, baseball, the weather, heck anything other than stories of cheap sex and the fulfillment of your obvious pedophile fantasies?
I've only been here a few months but I'm starting to develop the ability to spot these obnoxious trolls a mile away and avoid them like the plague. Which unfortunately has led me to develop another stereotype (that I really need to work on ridding myself of) that causes me to typically avoid any Dominican woman who has a child from a gringo 'relationship' that didn't result in marriage. My stereotypical assumption is that the 'jimmie hat' sprung a leak when this prostitute was doing the rapido with one of these same gringo types that I've been trying to avoid.
I keep a personal diary of my experiences here in my newly adopted country. I am not some high and mighty model of piety looking down his nose on people. I just try to live a 'balanced life' and don't like it when others make asinine assumptions. Now before the anti-religious DR1 warhawks swoop down upon me and brand me a 'Jesus freak' let me share a little something from my diary.
[My conversation with the 'chula de barrio' a few moments ago as she approached me on my way from the colmado]
She: Se?or, I have been watching you and there is something very different about you that I find very attractive.
Me: Gracias. But what do you find so different about me?
She: I notice that you do not drink cervesa or alcohol. You do not smoke. I don't see you with many different women like the other gringos. Are you a Christian?
Me: No. But I am a follower of Jesus Christ and a believer in the message that he brought us and in his ultimate return.
She: How can you proclaim this and not be a Christian?
Me: if you spent years teaching me what you knew and instructing me in your way, but after you left me, another people came and claimed that you taught me something different. If I reject what you taught me and accept what these people taught me and attribute it to you, am I following you or am I following these other people?
She: you would definitely not be following me.
Me: In order for me to call myself Christian, I have to reject what Jesus Christ taught and accept concepts that he didn't teach but were introduced by others and attributed to him. So what are you....a Christian?
She: jejeje...No comment.
[NOTE to self...MAKE IT PLAIN!]