Not your Ted Koppel's newsroom
I got the sense that this reporter had a well-disguised holier-than-though 'tude. Maybe a report on Sankies would've amused her more. Nothing against Boca Chica, but please. The report is uneven and unfair.
For decades, The US populous has been increasingly trained to take a particularly naive and immature view of
sexual, political and other cultural angles in their news...and the
American press, far more conservative than most western countries, strives to satisfy.
Ok lets put the prostitution ethics aside for a moment. Because honestly this story effectively equated the beach selling of drugs, and sex with the selling of paintings, foot manicures, jewelry, coconut water, and shrimp, by
folks who are trying to put bread on the table .
(And listen you snot nosed ABC manahttanite, YOU PAID UNDER $150 A NITE FOR AN AI...WTF!
I paid $120 for 2... Guess what, the place, the same place, was still pretty mediocre to poor, no arguments,
whose the moron?).
Me? I love BC and all its gritty wonder...and guess what!??? the food at the Don Juan sucks...so now we pay $35 bucks a night for a room very near by...VERY NEAR BY, and eat on Duarte and watch the pros and their
miserable euro trash papi chulos, and laugh the nite away.
You could call me the American trash version...only I married my dominican passion...so yes I am no brighter
than the average and will arguably pay more in pesos and sweat in the years to come...all love costs something.
And now to the" every thing is for sale and isn't that gross" point of this editorial masterpiece;
I for one after spending time in the DR now get really annoyed at "beggars"... In the US...
all I can think is, "man Will you please find something to sell? Ice pops, cell phone chargers, windshield wipers,
paintings, anything ...
Please...be creative like our neighbors to the south." You say your hungry...work it biatch.
Seriously,
Perhaps a bit of an over simplification, but the difference between beggars on US streets and the poor on the
Streets and beaches of the third world?
In the US they hold a sign that says.."will work for food".
In the DR these same able bodied folks actually work, and sell whatever they can get their hands on to sell as if eating that night depended on it.
It's still a messy conversation...the poor, panhandling, begging, exploitation, and those missed by social
programs is difficult to grapple regardless of the country.
But it is insulting, for a country like the US to look down on folks who are at least trying to make a living
while their own country's social welfare programs fall far short of the ideals promised in the American dream.