Progress Sosua receives two new garbage trucks...
Will that help clean up Sosua? Not sure if that will keep businesses from closing, but one hopes the ability to take garbage away will help make the area cleaner.
It’s a start! Better then no trucks?
It’s a start! Better then no trucks?
Garbage trucks pick up what's out in the bin. Dominicans seem content to just throw their plastic and cans and bottles and what other refuse they have at the side of the road.
You even see them tossing it from taxis and buses
Such a pity to spoil the county
Chico Bill points out the root cause. Trucks are great. Pride in the country by not throwing garbage in the streets? Even better.
Not everyone loves their Country, those who throw the garbage, hate their Country. Simple!
It is not that simple, not all that toss garbage in the street have been taught that this is animal like behavior, and to take pride in your environment.
An untrained puppy that craps on the rug has not been trained to poop in the yard or the paper.
It does not mean he hates his master or the rug.
Littering is just one example that is symptomatic of a general "the world revolves around me" attitude of many(not all) Dominicans. It's reflected in their refusal to dim their brights, driving like maniacs, butting in line, blasting music in their houses in the barrios at all hours of the the night, and bellowing like bull mooses in restaurants and in public in general. An overall lack of courtesy and disregard for for anybody else but themselves. It's gotten so bad even many Dominicans are complaining about these behaviors.
It is not that simple, not all that toss garbage in the street have been taught that this is animal like behavior, and to take pride in your environment.
An untrained puppy that craps on the rug has not been trained to poop in the yard or the paper.
It does not mean he hates his master or the rug.
The thing is, it's not just in the ghetto here.
That is very hard for me to believe.
since i see that the subject of littering moved posters' hearts so much that they littered the thread about businesses in sosua with posts "how sad it is to see trash all over, oh my, but it's the part of the culture, dontchaknow" i created a new thread for your enjoyment. entirely dedicated to rubbish. aren't you glad? i bet you are.
carry on.
Littering is just one example that is symptomatic of a general "the world revolves around me" attitude of many(not all) Dominicans. It's reflected in their refusal to dim their brights, driving like maniacs, butting in line, blasting music in their houses in the barrios at all hours of the the night, and bellowing like bull mooses in restaurants and in public in general. An overall lack of courtesy and disregard for for anybody else but themselves. It's gotten so bad even many Dominicans are complaining about these behaviors.