The Dominican Republic feels like a wildfire... A vast wildfire of culture, tradition, and love, as well as corruption and mistrust. There are positives and negatives to this beautiful country, some more apparent than others, though the hardship we face is to better our future and our talent and promise as a country, which makes me proud to be Dominican.
Our Tradition is built off of natives, pride, and fun, it revolves around being loving and caring, helpful and overall being an open person. We emit a smell that attracts people to our diversity and vast land of culture, great traditional food we pride ourselves in making like Mangu, 'Sancocho', Platano, Arroz and many more, which are very popular outside of the D.R and show the extent to which our country has grown. I believe this defines us exponentially.
Our way of life shows how carefree- but also careful- we are. As much as there are people who don't accept outsiders, the majority of Dominicans do and embrace them as if they were our own, and that love spreads like a wildfire. We are blessed with talent and prosperity that shows what we output to the world. This can be seen in our vast amount of Hotels, in Terrenas, and our exponential amount of beautiful beaches that are to be seen by outsiders. I believe that we are a very open country.
There's a lot of mistrust though. We struggle with the fact that we don't come to terms with our own leadership, for the right reasons. Most of the government steals from the poor to benefit their own lavish lifestyle. This is evidenced in the fact that our public schools are drained, the lack of fresh water in most houses, kids that unfortunately have to live there because they don't have a stable home life and the government doesn't provide for sad children, which is upsetting to see, though this can be worked on. Despite this, with the population now calling out the government for said issues, I think there's a bright future ahead.
This mistrust leads to corruption. Families are torn apart by different political beliefs, theft from the poor from the wealthy, and a pretty clear hierarchy whether we like it or not. This clearly shows the miscommunication between the two sides and how they act. Though, not all blame should be placed on the government as those that give up and treat others badly because of their situation doesn't help, this is shown when people fight over political and ideological beliefs, instead of actually having a formal discussion over the mentioned situation. In conclusion, I think we can do better in terms of trusting each other.
To finalize, the Dominican Republic is an example of a bunch of feelings being expressed: love and hate, all at once. A fiery nation that has a bright future ahead. We have the talent, the tradition, and the culture. All we need is to express those in the right way, and help ourselves to that future so that we can maintain it alive for generations to come.
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