Hello Keith and thank you for your e-mail.
I have to tell you first that I, personally, have lots of respect for UK and all its citizens.
Bad apples grow everywhere.
However, Keith, having made about 9 trips to DR (six this year), plus the fact that I speak spanish and I'm a very, very open and friendly person; I just can't agree with some of the posters in DR1.
They may have lived there for 15 years, but guess what? every single one I met, speaks little or poor spanish, and, as I suspected from the beginning (now I'm sure) they are much less qualified than I am to pass judgement on most of the decent dominicans, their culture and the current situation.
Keith, these are the same people, that while complaining about the culture in DR, they have 2, 3, 4 servants getting minimum wages. Keith, I'm no communist, believe me, but I just can't look the other way, be judgemental and critical of a society than I'm taking advantage of, big time.... and then claim... oh well... these people have no solution, they will always remain savages.
The worse thing that has happened to DR, is not the "all inclusive" or the perceived corrupted government, or the inexistant infra-structure; it's the bad foreigners and the abusive and heartless investors, who, just like Spain did 500 years ago, they are robbing the natives and insulting them.
As for me, I'm not naive, but I just can't enjoy any environment in which people refuse to create a plain leveled field.
Keith, I'm a poker player, I play Texas Holdem on the internet every day and on occasion in Vegas and Atlantic City. I had the opportunity to play Texas Holdem one day at the new Ocean World casino.
Of course, no natives were there, the owner's son was at the table with some of his rich friends, plus a couple of Brits, some yatch guys and a couple of ladies.
After about 2 hours of listening to the ongoing conversation, I asked myself, what are you doing here Rafael?
There is much, much more value in sharing a humble BBQ with the locals in a small village, than listening to the barrage of empty conversation at that table.
Keith, these are the same people they claim the DR has no solution. NO WONDER!!!! Of course not, as long as they live there.
I have to tell you first that I, personally, have lots of respect for UK and all its citizens.
Bad apples grow everywhere.
However, Keith, having made about 9 trips to DR (six this year), plus the fact that I speak spanish and I'm a very, very open and friendly person; I just can't agree with some of the posters in DR1.
They may have lived there for 15 years, but guess what? every single one I met, speaks little or poor spanish, and, as I suspected from the beginning (now I'm sure) they are much less qualified than I am to pass judgement on most of the decent dominicans, their culture and the current situation.
Keith, these are the same people, that while complaining about the culture in DR, they have 2, 3, 4 servants getting minimum wages. Keith, I'm no communist, believe me, but I just can't look the other way, be judgemental and critical of a society than I'm taking advantage of, big time.... and then claim... oh well... these people have no solution, they will always remain savages.
The worse thing that has happened to DR, is not the "all inclusive" or the perceived corrupted government, or the inexistant infra-structure; it's the bad foreigners and the abusive and heartless investors, who, just like Spain did 500 years ago, they are robbing the natives and insulting them.
As for me, I'm not naive, but I just can't enjoy any environment in which people refuse to create a plain leveled field.
Keith, I'm a poker player, I play Texas Holdem on the internet every day and on occasion in Vegas and Atlantic City. I had the opportunity to play Texas Holdem one day at the new Ocean World casino.
Of course, no natives were there, the owner's son was at the table with some of his rich friends, plus a couple of Brits, some yatch guys and a couple of ladies.
After about 2 hours of listening to the ongoing conversation, I asked myself, what are you doing here Rafael?
There is much, much more value in sharing a humble BBQ with the locals in a small village, than listening to the barrage of empty conversation at that table.
Keith, these are the same people they claim the DR has no solution. NO WONDER!!!! Of course not, as long as they live there.