Hopefully, people did their research and understood the type of music in the DR and the way it is played before they decided to move there because the music was there before you and it will be there after you.
i did not do any research about dominican music before coming here. i did no research at all. i only read an entry on DR in a polish encyclopedia, probably 10 lines in total.
many other genres of music were here before me and will be here after me, does not mean i have to like them all. bachata is boring and lame but this is not an important factor in judging the rest of the country, merely a subject of this thread.