"Like those blacks in the projects" or "people in the projects" they both can be interperted as racist. It has nothing to do with race.
Chopoism is not just mutually exclusive to darker skin Dominicans. In Santiago more than half of the chopos are light skin Dumb-Yorks. 30 plus year old me in baggy jeans and tilted Yankee Caps. Or how about wealthy American Investment Bankers in New York who act like idiots in nightclubs all around New York City? Insulting women, being abrasive towards them and giving us Gentlemen a bad rep? You see the word CHOPO is a noun. It describes a person place or thing. In our case it is a person who acts like an imbecile in public in the ill-conceived belief that he is better than everyone. Whatever happened to laying low and being discrete? But that wasn't my point at all. More than half my post was regarding how Santiago has improved infrastructure wise as well as business wise (for the most part). I make a few observations about some idiots in the city and we focus on that. Maybe you guys are chopos and it bothers you.
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