What's wrong with being a sanky?? Really.

AnnaC

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You guys need a few lessons on quoting. It looks like Berzin is making that quoted post.

Just remember when you are making the first quote do NOT remove either one of the quote signs at each end of text. you can backspace the text in between these

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most people end up removing one

Once the first person gets it wrong it goes down hill from there.
 
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Charlielyn

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dietcoke doesn't understand

A) I am not making excuses for these people, but do proceed to read the following:
B) I am not a 'sankie' and never will be. I am wealthy enough. Are you a Dominican male working on a resort?? I don't think so..
C) You're implying that only women are 'sankies'. Sankies are "men", sankiettes are women. Sankies are Dominican men, not tourists. Not true. Men are too.
D) Put yourself in their shoes: You're poor. You have no money. You have nowhere to live. They have low paying jobs on resorts. That is where they meet the female tourists or they hang out in local discos looking for female tourists.So you get payed to be a 'sankie'. You get someone to take you out to dinner, someone to put a roof over your head, someone who doesn't just treat you like a piece of cr*p.
E) How is this offending you? Why do you care what these people do w/ themselves? Are you referring to the female tourist or the Dominican Sankie?
F) Why, on Earth, is it ANY of your business? Think about it.
G) These people have never had anything good in their lives. So what in God's honest truth is it any of YOUR business what they spend their money on? The tourists have never had anything good in their lives? This comment makes no sense at all.

I just thought you might want to think about that. It was not meant to offend anyone.

Sincerely,
Dietcoke

Dietcoke seems confused as to what a "Sankie" is in real life.
 
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would a sankie be the same as a golddigger (i know ones male and ones female).....and would a chopo translate as a chav
 

Musicqueen

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johne...i understand your point of view but a tour guide on a safari truck doesnt make the type of promises to you that a sankie does. he/she doesnt whispher sweet spanish nothings in your ear and make you feel like you're the center of their universe (well at least not any of the safaris ive been on ;)) with a "legit" tour guide you know what you're paying for and what you're getting in to. im thinking that most women/men who fall for a sankie/sankiette dont know that their is deceit, manipulation and empty promises involved. am i wrong?

Sorry to disagree here...Back in the days when I was a single woman, I've had a FEW tour guides on safari trucks, horse back riding and catamaran trips hit on me...with just about the SAME lies and deceitful tales as the sankies...there IS NO difference...

To me, again...TO ME, there is nothing wrong with being a sankie...different people do different things in order to survive..it's human nature...or don't any of you people do that in your daily life? At work? Anyone???

The problem is with the women that BELIEVE these lies...if they would just take the whole vacation romance for what it is...just like the men do!!!! ...a great time while away...to relieve the stress and experience something different...NO ONE would be here discussing this...(although Robert and Dolores would not be too happy about that...less traffic on the site! ;) )

The message that should always be emphasized here is for the women that are thinking of coming down on vacation...

Have fun, don't believe anything you hear, and what happens in DR, stays in DR....PERIOD!!!

I should make t-shirts with the slogan and sell them to the resorts...;)

(Don't ANYONE think of stealing my ideas, now! :pirate:)
 

mountainfrog

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Part of the 'culture'

...what's so wrong about being a sankie?....

The fact is that this business branch exists and thrives.
Who was there first anyway?
The sankie or the gringa in demand of being served, huh?

If there were no gringas with a crave for exotic lovers we would not have this sub forum.

In today's tourist industry the sankies' services play an important part and generate foreign exchange. They may not have a high reputation but there are others who haven't either (DR police, lawyers, RE-agents...).

Sankies and holiday prostitutes... who is to judge?

mountainfrog
 
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this is a British chav
 

Berzin

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In today's tourist industry the sankies' services play an important part and generate foreign exchange. They may not have a high reputation but there are others who haven't either (DR police, lawyers, RE-agents...).mountainfrog


I never thought about it this way. There are people in the DR who adversely affect the average dominicans' everyday life but don't seem to be as hated, like the people you just mentioned.

What makes me wonder is how these sankies handle the inevitable erosion of family values, which seems to be a strong characteristic of dominican culture.

How can you have a man sleeping around and lying and deceiving his victims come home and be a responsible family man? What are his children going to grow up thinking in that environment?

And what about the wife, who just accepts this lifestyle because her man is bringing money home? What in the world could this woman teach her daughter about life and how men should treat her?

Answering the OPs' question, I guess these are some of the things that are wrong with being a sankie.
 

Rocky

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Hard to believe that this is still being discussed.
It's so friggin" simple.
Sanky's scam people.
Sanky is synonymous to scamming.
So it's like asking if there's anything wrong with scamming.
If the answer to that question is not obvious, then I have no idea what to suggest.
Electro-shock therapy, maybe?
 

Musicqueen

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But Rocky...people only get scammed if they ALLOW themselves to be scammed...

Anyone with an ounce of gray matter in their brains knows that the 'I Love You's' and the 'I want to marry you' and 'I want to make a baby with you' is totally ILLOGICAL when you've JUST MET that person!!!!

So I don't think there's anything wrong with being a sankie...who knows...maybe at the beginning, when we never knew about them, they were seriously falling for the white, blond hair, blue eyed girls...and once they realized the girls were using THEM, they decided if they were going to be taken 'advantage' of, they might as well get paid for it...

I truly think this is how it all started...think about it...MOST Dominicans are crazy about light skinned people...even their own... and for sure about foreigners...

What if the women (since we mostly talk about sankies and women, although it could be the other way around also!) that have been vacationing in DR for ages, thought the men were so unbelievable in bed, could dance all night long, and shake everything really well, and on top of that were being treated nice and whispered sweet nothings in their ears during those vacations, but then when it was all over left without even a goodbye or anything, and these guys were just left there wondering how could someone treat a person so good for a few nights and then just disssapear...

That I think it's how the 'sankies' were born...

Just a theory...but I don't think it's all that much off...if only we could find the first sankie and do research on him... ;)

(It's really a boring night here at work... :( )
 

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Why do 'we' have to label everything? Mutual consent about mutual disclosed information should be no ones' business but those involved. I agree, women should take what they hear with a grain of salt, then make their own choice on whether to partake of what's offered or not and to what extent.
I think it's a harsh generalization to clump male resort workers into the term sankie. Perhaps some workers take advantage of the situation their job puts them in, just as someone in another job may do the same (a bartender or such, at any restaurant anywhere). In my experience the men that "hit on me" from the resort were also very gentleman-like when turned down and continued to be flirtacious, pleasant, fun, and warm human beings I enjoyed getting to know more about. No doubt there are many scams being pulled, hearts hurt, egos crushed - just like any other aspect of our world. It's sad that even on "holiday" one can't throw caution to the wind without being judged or taken as a fool.
If someone knows what they're getting themselves into then I say to each his own. If someone is being "scammed" I think that is sad, but I have to ask...is it all about the money? or is it just another score (or notch on the bedpost)? Like I said, who's to know except the people directly involved.
Personally, it's always been my practice to be straight-forward, without deception and I would ask the same of anyone I placed myself in an intimate situation with. Of course, I can only control myself & not that other person so it's my decision, really, to be skeptical or believing, isn't it?
 

mountainfrog

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.... erosion of family values, which seems to be a strong characteristic of dominican culture.
?Grub first, then ethics.? (Brecht)
Brecht must have been in the Dominican Republic for some time... ;)

.... and be a responsible family man?
It's easier to nail a jelly to a wall than holding a Dominican responsible for his/her actions.
'No tengo la culpa.' is one of the most frequent sentences here.

mountainfrog
 

LatinDragonXJC

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Alot of these women need to come to their senses. If you're an aging fat sloppy pale woman that's pulling a nice ripe fit tanned Dominican at a resort......hmmm don't you think there is a catch? Play it for what it is, what are the chances of this happening to you back home? (RARE!) Don't go overboard and build him a house or send money back, just enjoy your time there with your "latin lover", dinner, drinks, cabana, before you leave give him a lil something with a fake number and go home happy (hopefully with no diseases).

I personally think those guys are brave to go to bed with some of the women I've seen at resorts. They earn it.
 
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johne

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Right on

I personally think those guys are brave to go to bed with some of the women I've seen at resorts. They earn it.

When I considered becoming a sanky this was one of the reasons I turned down the job on the animation team.The other reasons I will keep to myself but I agree 100% that they EARN their money.Think about it--need to learn English as a second language, possibly French, German. Then write a script and rehearse the scam. Change clothes and go out to dinner with these girls. Man--thats a LOT of work--before you take them to the crib. When you add it up its probably less than the minimum wage in the U.S.

I thought I could make more money flipping hamburgers at Micky D's and believe me this is a more tranquillo way of life!
Welome to DR1 and Funny Fridays.

JUAN
 
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Kyle

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if only we could find the first sankie and do research on him

you mean like the "sankie gene" can be hereditary :ermm: and passed on to future generations ?
 

Berzin

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if only we could find the first sankie and do research on him

you mean like the "sankie gene" can be hereditary :ermm: and passed on to future generations ?

According to some of the research I've done, there are some of the original sankies still around. I've met one who worked in Sosua Beach. He went to one of the scandinavian countries, but after quite a number of years he got divorced and came back.

Like many sankies and their female equivalents, the sad reality is they wind up coming back with nothing to show for their efforts.
 

miguel

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Como?....

According to some of the research I've done, there are some of the original sankies still around. I've met one who worked in Sosua Beach. He went to one of the scandinavian countries, but after quite a number of years he got divorced and came back.

Like many sankies and their female equivalents, the sad reality is they wind up coming back with nothing to show for their efforts.
What?.... Are you saying that "you can take the sankie out of the DR BUUUUT can not take sankiesm out of them"?....Ooooh, the insanity!!.

You may want to tell that to SOME of the SankietteHusbands and SankieWives of the world.

Btw, Berzin, the Sankie religion have been "alive and well" for many generations, therefore, the "founding fathers" are all dead by now.
 

Alyonka

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:cheeky:

Except for the little bumps around their tutu.

Question: don't men (Dominican or not) who go to the DR often or just pretty much are willing to try it with any more or less attractive chica who crosses their way cause and experience the same problems? The only difference - no money or visa involved.