So I was right. Hehehehe.
if the shoe fits....
no wonder you were offended. Never mind, since obama is the president, I will let you have the last words. Cheers.
AZB
AZB,
My my. I leave for a few days, and you go off again. Hope we didn't ruin your trip to NYC. Heh.
Wow. I'm actually impressed. It's a very rare thing to run into a so-called educated person with the sheer breadth of your ignorance.
My original point in this discussion on poverty was that it is one thing to disagree on the causes or solutions to a particular problem, in this case poverty. That's fine. It is quite another to revel in someone else's poverty and/or misery, because it makes you feel better about yourself. That's just sadistic.
Whatever happened to "to whom much has been given, much will be expected?" I mean, it's bad enough to be profoundly selfish and shortsighted, but do you have to get off on it by badmouthing those who are less fortunate?
On to the later, less fortunate racist comments you made. Unlike you, my brown-skinned south asian muslim friend, Corsair and I 1) are both quite happy in our own skins, 2) have no interest in proving to the world that we're something that we're not (and have no interest in being) and 3) don't use any perceived racial, religious, or other genetic difference to discount or discredit a meritorious comment. That's all about you, and your issues.
Back on point. The reason the BRIC countries are doing so well and rapidly becoming the economic powerhouses of the future is because education mixed with opportunity is an incredibly powerful game-changer, on both the individual and macro level.
In the United States, the middle class was created by a combination of returning WWII veterans going to school and/or finding solid jobs that were far superior to anything experienced in the nation's prior history.
Nothing will change the fortunes of the majority of Dominicans (some will admittedly always be poor) faster than a solid education, and incentives for opportunity to take them somewhere beyond dire poverty.
But people like AZB actually
fear this. AZB's existence in DR is utterly dependent upon the maintaining of large numbers of poor, ignorant, and desperate people. An educated, fully employed population would make it very difficult for opportunists like him to stand on the necks of others, insult the poor for sport, and take advantage of the exchange rate to screw a bunch of poor, desperate women who would otherwise have nothing to do with him.
The DR is full of decent, well-meaning expats with many different, valid perspectives.
And then there's people like AZB.
