Hey Chip didn't know you were from Charleston. I just spent a week down there with my wife. Great place...
Anyhow, I think you're mostly correct in you statement above. I do think that some of it has to do with how large the city is. For instance I think the same thing that happened to you in Orlando could happen in Santo Domingo, where you could live in a house for years and not know your neighbors.
Good or bad, I think Dominicans still have a certain amount of naivety and you just don't think that this guy wanting to converse with me might just be gay. The US culture has become jaded, probably mostly due to the Media just sensationalizing every case. I don't think in general American are any more or less devious than Dominicans (some people will probably say the opposite is true) but every time there's a child abduction or a pedophile is all over the media for days or months at a time and it's all you hear about, thus it creates in a you a certain amount of mistrust of other people.
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