A Rastafari Reasoning 🤔 The State Of Humanity In Suriname

I really am appalled and angry of the people who give the rest of us a bad rep 😡
I don't put my head in the sand and I'm aware of the level of entitlement of the majority of the people. Those are the same people who are waiting on the government to give them a piece of land and to support them. And I knew they would bring up the color of your skin 🤦‍♀

Here I am, trying to bring positive vibes from this country, and then others go and ruin it by being nasty. Indeed, Surinamers don't know (yet) what poverty is. Not the same kind of poverty known in Asia or Venezuela right now.

By the way, even for Surinamers it's hard to open up a bank account. A lot of bureaucracy and antiquated laws. Even I am fed up by those 🙈

But I don't want to make you even angrier. I do hope it'll get better and that you and your family get better treatment and if you must find a way home soon.
Stay positive and strong my friend 💪

It makes me feel so angry there are so much greed and Evil in this world. I am so sorry to hear your horrible experiences with those ugly people. I really hope my family can meet your family one day in a country we can both go visit.

Have you been gone long enough that the State Department has revoked your citizenship?

Sorry to hear that you’ve been having such challenging experiences. Great that you were able to catch up with a friend. Hoping things will get better for you and your family. Though it’s tough, I believe the experiences will make you even stronger and when you’re out of it, you’ll be able to encourage anyone who might have a similar experience. The great thing is that your family is together.

Well, first of all, I think your voice is really pleasant to listen to. It's so relaxed and soothing, that I remain calm even with topics that would otherwise get me upset. So please, do continue with your rasta-rants, as well as more positive topics, which I would also love to hear.

The issue with people's fear (in my opinion the root of most of the problems you mentioned) and the unpicked fruit, reminds me of organizing a fruit-saving group in Germany and Hungary. What a difference! In Germany most people with unpicked fruit trees in their yards were simply thrilled that someone came and took the fruit they couldnt pick themselves, since in most cases they were elderly. In Hungary, the same demographics in the same situation tended to eye us suspiciously, trying to figure out our scam. In the end they would decide they weren't interested, because they would need to let us enter their property. (Oh no!) Or, they would charge us by the kilo, above market prices, ignoring our time and work.

In my interpretation, these people have experienced so much rip-off and abuse throughout their lives (and those of people around them), that their defense mechanism was to adopt this fearful attitude. Of course, I'm sure that's only part of the reason, and there are lots of learned factors as well.

As for poverty, I like to think that it's not so much about the amount of possessions one has, but their attitude towards the world around them. This way you can have people and communities with very little resources be extremely rich, and others with a lot of accumulated wealth be utterly poor.

I personally like these reasoning videos. I watched the entire thing. I guess we all need a good rant/reason sometimes. The fruit and veggies dropping off of tree really grieve me, even in Japan where people hardly have land, they giving away fruits. They might even buy it and give you as a gift. In my mind, the poorer the country the more things like fruit become a sharable act of kindness and goodwill.

I really think your skin colo(u)r is the reason why the man dem a gwaan so with the taxi and mix that with desperate minds in desperate times. Gwaan hold di faith Justin, gwaan focus on the positive ( though everyone wants to hear a rant now and then 😅 )

This doesn't offend me. It does hurt me deeply though, because I know all of it is true. Greed, corruption and ego have ruined any type of potential this country had to be one of the greatest on the continent. We have the natural resources, we have the fertile earth. But the collective mentality, which is even more amplified in the government, has brought everything to shit.

You think those two years were bad. Try living here your whole life. I make one step forward, and some corrupt fuckery centered around others egotistical desires to gain more for themselves sets me back 5 steps. If it weren't for our parents who are well off and financially responsible, @tanjakolader wouldn't even have the means to get our own home, let alone rent one.

I'm not going to defend anything you said, because I mostly feel the same way. We may have more friends and family here in our own personal social bubble that make the experience better, but everything outside that bubble is potentially rotten and I know that.

I resonate with the feeling of wanting to leave as soon as possible, earning an honest living somewhere else to built myself and my partner up without random obstacles like greedy banks, corrupt politicians and the majority of our technological maturity down the drain. Tanja doesn't like it that much when I cuss at idiot citizens and politicians and the system itself, and that we'd be better of someplace else, but she's the optimistic one in the relationship, which balances out perfectly. 😅

My bad for tagging along on the rant train though. 🙃 Seemed like the perfect opportunity to let out my own steam to someone who won't feel insulted due to some misplace sense of patriotism.