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Originally Posted by deelt
What about his Dominicaness does he have to be proud of based on his experience? (Please do remember the value a strong male role model has on your development and sense of perspective).
A father who blatantly callously abandoned his mother in an unknown city for some hoochie back in NY nevr to be seen until...? A family that turned their back on his mother w/ kids when in need? His mother struggled counting dimes with him at the kitchen table for nightly tips as a waitress (and that was just her second job) to see if they could make ends meet in FL? Family members who now profess to be his best buddies and always thought of him? Oh really?
I know EXACTLY where he is coming from and I don't blame him. I know many professional Dominican-Americans that have realized the same thing and minimally associate themselves with being Dominican. One friend moved straight across the country to California to escape the abuses of those around her.
Felix Sanchez is Dominican by affiliation because he didn't grow up around them. Dominicans on the island love Dominican-Americans when it is convenient for them. When it is not, we are just a bunch of Dominicanyorks regardless of where you live in the states. Let's not forget that.
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I am not saying that he should be proud, is the hipocracy that he displayed when he used to say he was more dominican than the flag which made many
dominicans proud and crazy about him. Now these people feel betrayed because they think he coulded say he was a dominican american.
Felix had no reason whatsoever to represent the DR in the olympics but chose to do so. That is what i call a true orgulloso dominicano.