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Originally Posted by sjh
The dominican republic has a class system and visitors are really only exposed to the lowest classes only. The middle and upperclasses have little interest or time to waste chasing around dreamy eyed tourists. Most of them would consider it shameful/slutty to be seen walking around with a tourist in public.
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100% correct, couldn't have put it better myself.
I always get a chuckle out of some of the stuff people post on here.
Why is it that the people that live and work in the DR and have integrated all sing the same song? Because that's how it is, we know because we live and breath it every day, some of us have been living and breathing it for many years here.
A perfect example is someone I know that once lived in Sosua and moved to Santo Domingo to live and work amongst Dominicans. That person was blown away with how little they knew about the DR and how things "really" work. When they went back to Sosua to visit, all of a sudden so many things made sense.
I'll say it again, most expats and 99% of tourists are pretty clueless how many aspects of this country really work. Fact!
Most expats don't need more than one hand to count their Dominican friends. Fact!
I have lost count of the amount of single girls (all classes) I know that have "patrocinadores" (sponsors) married men that look after them. Fact!
I would guess that 75% of the Dominican guys that I know (all social classes, married and dating) have girlfriends, some more than one. Fact!
sjh, excellent post, you are spot on with your observations. Fact!