More tourists will come now…look at Mexico you will be kidnapped do not travel = more tourist flocking
Not everything posted by the US State Department/CIA/other US government agencies about other countries is true or accurate. For example, in the CIA World Factbook report on the DR it says there is marked income inequality in the DR, when in reality there is greater income inequality in other Latin American countries and the same CIA source never mention that in the reports for those countries. Even Puerto Rico has a greater inequality, but you will not read that in any report of Puerto Rico from the US government.
The travel warning to the DR from the US government is being criticized by many shows in Dominican media. They are even mentioning that there are places in the USA, such as NYC, that are visited annually by tens of millions of tourists and despite the city is increasingly becoming more dirty, smelly, and crime has increased sharply; the US government doesn't have such travel warnings.
It reminds me of the discussion of bars on the windows in highrises in the DR where some people claim it is always due to crime, but residential buildings have been burglarized by thieves penetrating through windows in NYC apartment buildings and bars on windows in such buildings idn't widespread. Its the probervial of a Dominican in NYC complaining online of the crime situation in the DR while around the corner from where they live people are being mugged and businesses robbed/shoplifting and the very same people say nothing. Or of some Dominicans in the US using the DR's shortage of passports as an opportunity to bash the DR for incompetence, yet right now the US is facing backlogs on emitting its passports but these very same people remain quiet about it. lol
The point is that you have to scratch the surface of many things to get what is the real motivation for saying those things. Not everything said by the US government of other countries is accurate and many times there is a political bias due to some sort of political pressure coming from Washington DC. Plus, one aspect of many Dominican immigrants (not all) is to justify their decision to emigrate and part of that is the denigration of the DR whenever thry grt the chance, but remain quiet about similar things where they immigrated to. This bias is naturally passed to their children as they grow up eith the constant DR bashment/denigration, At this point it becomes a psychological issue and this creates the false notion on many Dominican-Americans that everyone is out to get them from the moment they land in the DR. Many actualky think in the DR the parks are deserted because propke are afraid of being victims of crime. Little do they know you pass by plazas and parks in say Puerto Plata during the late afternoons/evenings or walk by the malecon and there are many people simply sitting on the benches and people watching, the kiosks full of people and music, etc. You think things are better right now in Ukraine during the middle of a war attack than anyplace in the DR, according to them.
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