after a two day break from Planet DR1.........Thanks for holding serve, Quisqueya! lesssons well taught on your side, though things got out of hand in the end there......
I ve come to realize that in one little thread about a people without a land, I was able to unmasked the phantoms. Whether, people talking about Ghosts of History/past. Or others intentionally avoiding the issue at hand.
Part of the great success of the DR has always been from the get go, its ability to basically lay low and deliver a fair share of its market to foreign investors. As is in the case of other caribbean nations that are seen as successful nation, take the Bahamas for example. A country sold to the highest foreign bidders. What will happen if ever these foreign investors decide to leave and take with them their assets.
One poster wrote that in 1821 the DR had declared itself independent, independent of what I asked. An illusionist might add, that from day one the DR has always been a country begging for Europeans (France, Spain 'secondary') and let me not mention Uncle Sam to actually legally adopt them. Before Duarte, and again after Trujillo these same outcries became evident. The DR begging for Uncle Sam to basically take over the whole island. Some might say it's a sign of a people with some insecurities but I beg to differ.
I believe it's what I would coin as Grandeurism, moreso trying to associate oneself with the current superpower, taking shelter under the shelves of the big man on campus to appear to be bigger than one actually is. When one seats here and read these very many post of how much better the DR side of the Island is than that of which the Haitians resides. If one didn't live in this world, one might come to the conclusion that someway somehow the DR was on a different economic scale, or a 1st world country if I may.
When in actuality both countries couldn't be any more similar, specially when it comes to economic woes. Both suffer from a great majority of their people living below poverty line, both suffer from productivity, both suffer from inner conflicts impairing the advancements of their country respectively.
The Only difference, the one thing that has allowed the DR side of the island to somehow camouflage its inner ills are its linkage to FOREIGN INVESTORS!!!! PUnta Cana for example, all these great resorts in the DR, making close to more half if probably not more of the economic revenues that country actually enjoys. If not for the Foreign investors, which the country has always relied on, or has always tried to shoulder on throughout its history. If not for that, would they really be much difference between the two countries, would they?
Many on denial will actually shoot down my opinion, but I know better heck they know better too. If not for the foreign investors in the DR, Bahamas in the other so called more prosperous third world countries of the Caribbean, where would these countries be I ask you. Haiti in a way has suffered for its reluctance to open its shores/markets to FOREIGN INVESTORS, I might add at will.
I ve come to realize that in one little thread about a people without a land, I was able to unmasked the phantoms. Whether, people talking about Ghosts of History/past. Or others intentionally avoiding the issue at hand.
Part of the great success of the DR has always been from the get go, its ability to basically lay low and deliver a fair share of its market to foreign investors. As is in the case of other caribbean nations that are seen as successful nation, take the Bahamas for example. A country sold to the highest foreign bidders. What will happen if ever these foreign investors decide to leave and take with them their assets.
One poster wrote that in 1821 the DR had declared itself independent, independent of what I asked. An illusionist might add, that from day one the DR has always been a country begging for Europeans (France, Spain 'secondary') and let me not mention Uncle Sam to actually legally adopt them. Before Duarte, and again after Trujillo these same outcries became evident. The DR begging for Uncle Sam to basically take over the whole island. Some might say it's a sign of a people with some insecurities but I beg to differ.
I believe it's what I would coin as Grandeurism, moreso trying to associate oneself with the current superpower, taking shelter under the shelves of the big man on campus to appear to be bigger than one actually is. When one seats here and read these very many post of how much better the DR side of the Island is than that of which the Haitians resides. If one didn't live in this world, one might come to the conclusion that someway somehow the DR was on a different economic scale, or a 1st world country if I may.
When in actuality both countries couldn't be any more similar, specially when it comes to economic woes. Both suffer from a great majority of their people living below poverty line, both suffer from productivity, both suffer from inner conflicts impairing the advancements of their country respectively.
The Only difference, the one thing that has allowed the DR side of the island to somehow camouflage its inner ills are its linkage to FOREIGN INVESTORS!!!! PUnta Cana for example, all these great resorts in the DR, making close to more half if probably not more of the economic revenues that country actually enjoys. If not for the Foreign investors, which the country has always relied on, or has always tried to shoulder on throughout its history. If not for that, would they really be much difference between the two countries, would they?
Many on denial will actually shoot down my opinion, but I know better heck they know better too. If not for the foreign investors in the DR, Bahamas in the other so called more prosperous third world countries of the Caribbean, where would these countries be I ask you. Haiti in a way has suffered for its reluctance to open its shores/markets to FOREIGN INVESTORS, I might add at will.
