Hi DR QT Welcome. I hope that people do behave themselves especially since you asked them to!!
What I have discovered is that some people in the DR have no qualms about asking a foreigner for money. They automatically assume that since you're not Dominican you have bucks. In comparison you do.
I find it very rude. I had a friend do it to me. The first time I went beserk the second time I told her it was very rude in my culture to ask people for money. She said she wouldn't ask me again. I will not give/loan her money. My sister has been asked, my co-worker who is Dominican has been asked by her friend, who's family is wealthy to buy her a computer and bring it to the DR. People have banged on my friend's front door in SD and asked for money. It's mind boggling.
My point is just because he asked for money doesn't necessarily make him a sankie. It definitely makes him rude/greedy. There has to be other behavior to accommodate the money asking to make him a sankie.
And you are right--- men should not be asking a woman for money.
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