Don Juan said:
Read dr1's article today about the nasty treatment we dominicans receive by these Puerto Rican a-holes who think they're better because we pass through their isle as inmigrants and sometimes tourists.
I can validate this rough-hand behaviour on their part because it happen to me a couple of times. It's humiliating, enfuriating and demeaning.
If I can help it, I will never Pass through Muños-marin airport, much less visit their crime-ridden "country" ever again.
PeRros take note: If your mother didn't teach you respect for other human beings, then don't come to us. we don't need you or want your kind. comemierda!
This was highly uncalled for.
Not every boricua thinks the same and they are just up to their eyeballs with Dominicans entering their island illegally and lowering wages in low skill sectors (lower wages to the Boricuas, those wages don't appear too low to Dominicans). Boricuas that would have done those jobs at higher wages have to either take government assistance or migrate to the US. In the same manner, Dominicans migrate to PR because wages are being depressed by Haitian migrants (depressed wages to the Dominicans, does not appear to be so to the Haitians since they keep filling the low paying job positions). This lowering of wages causes Dominicans to go abroad in search of better paying jobs since the jobs they would have done are not acceptable at the prevailing wage.
In a similar fashion, Haitians migrate to the DR because THERE ARE NO JOBS to speak of in Haiti. A country with a depressed economy and shrinking, constant revolutions that are not needed, environmental degredation that is affecting even the subsistence farmer by lowering their yeilds year after yeild, a pervasive aids problem that is affecting Haitians in their prime years, a very broken down infrastructure that makes similar route 30 minutes long in the DR turn to a 5 hour ordeal in Haiti, and little trade to help get the country back on its feet, and Haiti lack of foreign aid that wealthy nations were eager to stop giving to that country. All of this, contributes to the eastern, then northern flow of people.
Once Cuba becomes democratic and capitalistic where efficiency becomes king, the Haitians will have one more place to flood to supply their cheap labor, which will put low skill Cubans out of work because low skill Cubans will not work for the lower wages given the conditions, which will push Cubans to further flood southern Florida, which will lower the wages there, and the cycle continues.
In essence, the largest influence in lowering of wages in the Caribbean emits from most islands, but primarily from Haiti due to the large population and its problems.
If the peoples of the Caribbean want a more formal, legal, and acceptable flow of people across this archipelago, EVERYONE must start to help HAITI. I can't stress this enough, Haiti is not just a Dominican problem, but a broader Caribbean wide problem. Look at the islands in this archipelago, each deports hundreds and thousands of Haitians, more so than any other group of people getting deported from Caribbean islands to their homeland. Haiti's problems are a Caribbean wide problem and the Caribbean must help them together, because its obvious that Haiti either can't or don't want to help itself.
Sidenote: Does anyone have reliable information on the Aids epidemic in Haiti. Some countries in Africa are already showing a decreasing population due mostly to the Aids epidemic, given that Haiti's Aids rate is similar to the average African rate, it would be interesting to see what effect that is having on population growth. Haiti's life expectancy of around 51 years of age is mostly held down due to the Aids epidemic. I won't be surprised if Haiti starts to show a shrinking population, given the large outflow of people and the large number of Aids infected people in their prime child bearing age, not to mention all the newly born with Aids who will probably not make it to their 5th birthday without proper medication, add to that the serious food deficiency in that country and the situation is not pretty regardless what way one tries to look at it.
If this presumption is true, then the lowering of wages in the DR and Cuba (after Castro and Capitalism is back in full swing) will become a thing of the past as Haitian labor supply "dries up" due to falling population due to Aids and large outflows. Of course, Central America has plenty of people. so perhaps they will fill the gap.... if not, wages will begin to rise in DR, post-Castro Cuba, heck, even in Haiti itself and that is a good thing when it comes to standards of living for those employed.
It's just sad to think that it would take the demise of an entire country's population to cause wages and innovation to take place as oppose to economic growth which could have done the same without the elimination of massive amounts of people.
Again, these are all assumptions. If anyone has any data, please present them. Thanks.
