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Originally Posted by chuckuindy
Miguel my friend,
You and most of the posters here are really out of touch with what I am trying to say. There are very few of you here that go to the DR looking for love or companionship. Most of you uninformed people go to the DR for vacation and have little or no clue what the Dominican culture is today. Other members here go to visit families who make up the middle and upper class of Dominican society. Few if any of you go to the DR and mingle with the poorest of the poor, the uneducated, who have little to no hope for better lives. You only visit the AI’s, fancy restaurants and clubs. You never see the real DR or its people.
Sure Miguel, you are Dominican but you have lost all touch with reality, and probably never saw it when you were growing up. You have always lived in a different world than most Dominicans. I challenge anyone to spend some time with real barrio people and tell me how you can associate it with anything you can relate to in your own lives.
Your statement that “Only people with no self-value and morals can make the transaction from housewives to prostitutes.” is so untrue. No one knows what they are capable of doing in any given situation.
Yes the DR is full of hardcore hookers and whores, but it is also full of good women that are only opportunists. Money is money whether it comes easy or you break your back for it.
Chuckuindy
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With all due respect, you know what, "with all due respect" nothing, Charlie this is one of the most absurd posts I have read on DR1, regarding me, since I have been a member!.
As I told our buddy AZB yesterday, after spending time with, after so many years as a DR1 member and after so many posts, YOU know basically NOTHING about me!.
See, I have the best of both "worlds": Very Americanized but raised as a Dominican!.
I have been visiting the DR since 1983 and only ONCE have I NOT mingled with the "poor and uneducated" Dominicans, like you call them. Btw, the only time was on my last visit, this month, and only because I needed the to relax in order to not get a breakdown!. And even then, I had some "poor and uneducated" Dominicans, like you call them, come spend time with me.
I have said thousand of times that I enjoy spending time with the people from the old neighborhood, Villa Duarte. Yes, I have taken vacations and stayed in Mom Elena's home, who lives in Barrio La Francia Nueva, the whole vacation. I know EVERYBODY from that barrio.
It will be very hard for SOME of you to believe but EVERYBODY in that barrio, and the surrounding barrios, LOVE ME!.
They love me NOT because I am a darn tourist who is only going to help their "cause" after they "help me first" BUT because I have NOT forgotten my roots, my friends and from where I came from. They know that when Miguel is in the country, it would not be long before he drops by to say "hi" and spend time with EVERYBODY. They care about me because I am not a flashy guy, because I am not a show-off, because I don't "wave" whatever riches I have around, because I don't make them feel inferior, because they know I am willing to eat their foods sitting on their floors if needs be, because they know I don't judge them for what they have but for whom they are, because they know I identify with them, because they know that in me they find the same person who left over 30 years ago, because they know that whenever they needed some type of help, that I am here to help in any way I can, because they know that I don't go to the DR to bed whomever crosses my path, because I don't go to Carwashes or Colmadones and because I don't associate with shady characters!.
In case you don't know, the worse thing you can do to a poor person is try and make yourself look like you are better off than them. The moment they think YOU feel you are better than them, they will resent you. I treat EVERYBODY the same. I don't rent a Mercedes, I don't wear 20 gold chains, I don't wave my money around, I don't wear my cell phone on my belt, I don't talk about my riches or non-riches. Why, why make them feel worse?.
Care to know how I know these people care about me?:
Because they NEVER ask me for anything!. They do not ask "what did you bring me?", they care about me for ME. They know that they do not need to ask in order for me to know what they need, they know that I do not have to have them do "favors" for me in order for me to help them out!.
Yes, I have stayed in Resorts a whole bunch of times that that does not mean that I have not visited my childhood friends and the old barrio.
But in case you don't know, this is what I do:
1- If I go with a g/f, I usually get there a few days before her, go straight to the neighborhood and spend time with them.
2- When she gets there, we go to a Resort and in MANY cases I have taken them to the barrio so she knows where I come from.
3- I make sure that I stay a few days after the g/f leaves and I check-in in a Capital hotel and visit my friends and barrios some more.
So please don't tell me that I don't know what's happening in the DR!. Your 10-20 trips (if that) are NOTHING compared to my 80 or more.
Yes, I do have a bunch of rich and "powerful" friends in the DR (well, "powerful" because of some dumbass relative) but if you have bothered to read some of my posts, I rather spend time with my poor friends because they care about me for whom I am and not because of what I have. I know that if I ever loose the 2 pennies I have in the bank, they will still accept me, I can't say the same about the rich ones!.
Btw, I know A LOT of poor poor people yet I don't know ONE prostitute!.
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