I’m the same color as Kevin Durant. This place is the most classist place I’ve ever been. Last name, school, family ties matter.
At first it threw me off but I understand and don’t mind it. I can’t recall a time I’ve been outright discriminated against.
Maybe when I first arrived, didn’t have a car yet and was renting a place. This was my first year as I was scoping it out to see if it was livable.
Anyways walking is bummy and I was dressed like a gringo on vacation
I didn’t speak the language well yet. So I was walking and looking for the metro, couldn’t find it, went into a really nice restaurant. Straight 10’s from the staff to the patrons. White Dominicans. Two patrons looked at me with straight disgust as I was butchering their language asking them a question.
I broke down and just asked in English. Their mouths dropped with “you speak English?”
I said “that’s all I speak”
. They proceeded to explain in English where I needed to go.
Initially I was pissed cause I wasn’t about to trade in another racist country for another. But I explained the situation to my white Dominican friend who grew up in Bk, upper class, etc and he gave me the playbook.
1. You stand out not dressed well and dress well here is decent jeans, nice dress shoes and a polo of some sort.
2. Bum’s don’t drive. Get a car.
3. And it’s really number, learn the language. It wreaks of being uneducated going to a country and not speaking the language. Same shyt we say about Hispanics who come here.
There’s a lot more but that’s like the basics