RE: A Rastafari Reasoning 🤔 The State Of Humanity In Suriname
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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.
Thanks for not taking my rant the wrong way. I understand the situation of being born here, as my situation wasn't ideal in the USA, so I used my passport to help met get to a more wild west economy in Cambodia, where I was able to use my multiple skillsets to thrive.
I can't imagine being from here, but I I can imagine I would've left as soon as I turned 18, had a passport, a one-way ticket to elsewhere, $500 and a dream. I just feel that in Asia, you can get by with meekness and honesty much better than you can here.
"Ego is the most dangerous drug in the Caribbean" as I say, but Suriname certainly isn't as bad as Jamaica where egos are concerned. I think the biggest problems here are sympathy and empathy, and that is something very important to me when choosing a country to reside in.
And to imagine we are trying to leave here to go the USA, a place with all the same problems, but like you we will have a bit of a support network there, and for me I only intend to stay there long enough to give the family passports so we can transit airports without hassle.
!ENGAGE 150
Passport: check
Money: check
Dream: check
Just waiting for the right moment now, which will be soon.
Our plan also consists of getting a better passport to travel easier.
Every country has its problems, some just more than others. And we are often inclined to not see most issues in our own country, just because we are so used to it. But then once you start traveling, you start noticing the differences.
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How striking that both locals went "along" with your rant 😅
But we feel your frustration. And yes, like @rarej said, I am aware of the things that are systematically broken in this country, but I've been "wired" to look at positives and remember the good things I do have.
But I am happy to have gotten to know you and your family here in this community 😊
likewise 😀
ENGAGEtokens.