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**anenselog** · 08-23-2012, 08:57 PM

Although the topic sounds negative to the DR, it is not my purpose. I do like the DR and as a resident expat to the DR I continue to look for the reasons to stay, or better said, hope there are no scarey realities which justify leaving.

First, you seem to be misusing terms...as far as I know both 3rd-world and developing mean essentially the exact same thing...developing is a more "politically correct" way of saying "under-developed" ("sub-desarrollado") which was the term most often used before by economists and the like...third world came from the old capitalist-communist divide: the capitalist "developed" world, the communist "developed" world, and "everything else", that is, the "3rd world"...that is all.

Anyway, I have no idea who Timothy Schwartz is and what is his agenda (if any)...but I would never judge an entire country based on the account of a single individual (even if I knew who he and his agenda are).

That is not to say that everything he says is false...I'd be surprised if everything he says is true or false...it is just one person's perspective...if I was to come to agree with him, it would be after considering many trust-worthy sources, not just him.

08-23-2012, 08:57 PM	#5
anenselog Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 451 Senior Member	Although the topic sounds negative to the DR, it is not my purpose. I do like the DR and as a resident expat to the DR I continue to look for the reasons to stay, or better said, hope there are no scarey realities which justify leaving. First, you seem to be misusing terms...as far as I know both 3rd-world and developing mean essentially the exact same thing...developing is a more "politically correct" way of saying "under-developed" ("sub-desarrollado") which was the term most often used before by economists and the like...third world came from the old capitalist-communist divide: the capitalist "developed" world, the communist "developed" world, and "everything else", that is, the "3rd world"...that is all. Anyway, I have no idea who Timothy Schwartz is and what is his agenda (if any)...but I would never judge an entire country based on the account of a single individual (even if I knew who he and his agenda are). That is not to say that everything he says is false...I'd be surprised if everything he says is true or false...it is just one person's perspective...if I was to come to agree with him, it would be after considering many trust-worthy sources, not just him.
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