This thread is funny as heck. I will only add that IMO the term "modern" can mean more then just buildings, highways, and forms of transportation. You also have a "modern way of thinking" and to me one of the worst things about Santo Domingo and DR is way too many parents exercise their right for "corporal punishment with their children. I almost never hear a child being beat or witness it anymore because people have evolved in how to discipline a child without using a belt.
The worst sound in the world to me is when a child is yelling STOP and crying and the parent continue to strike the defenseless helpless child.
When I lived in Santo Domingo I would hear children being beat all the time, once a little boy was beaten because he knocked over a plate of food because he was running and did not see it.
Potholes, PN asking for 300 to 500 pesos here and there, no lights, no water etc I can deal with but what I have a hard time is watching how Dominicans hit their children for something so minor as to making noise or something any average kid would do.
The worst part is a lot of them beat their children in front of other children, SADDEST thing I ever saw in 2013 not 1978, 1985 or 1991 but 2013. The only thing that child is learning when he or she has children they will be hit as well.
The worst sound in the world to me is when a child is yelling STOP and crying and the parent continue to strike the defenseless helpless child.
When I lived in Santo Domingo I would hear children being beat all the time, once a little boy was beaten because he knocked over a plate of food because he was running and did not see it.
Potholes, PN asking for 300 to 500 pesos here and there, no lights, no water etc I can deal with but what I have a hard time is watching how Dominicans hit their children for something so minor as to making noise or something any average kid would do.
The worst part is a lot of them beat their children in front of other children, SADDEST thing I ever saw in 2013 not 1978, 1985 or 1991 but 2013. The only thing that child is learning when he or she has children they will be hit as well.