Do not pass GO. Do not collect $200.
In the US I live under the poverty line. But in the DR? I be livin’ like a King and gettin’ shaken down by dem po-lice.
I drive a Volvo, a beige one. Just kidding. I drive a Hyundai, a gray one. And in the DR I would be getting pulled over in Chinatown like this fellow over here.
Because, apparently, in the DR the Hyundais are the ones you pull over. So just keep that in perspective. What you drive in the US, what you might think an average, pedestrian car is actually a luxury vehicle in other parts of the world, liable to get you pulled over. They’ll walk over and ask for your registration papers… and then some other papers along with it.
Shifting gears, I have some other friends that don’t believe me when I say things look like Sacramento.
Here’s Santo Domingo:
Now here’s Locke, Sacramento County:
These two buildings look like they belong side-by-side next to each other but they’re half a world away. The construction of these buildings look pretty similar to me. Maybe because they were both built by Chinese people around the same time in the 1800s. Maybe my eye has confirmation bias towards overseas Chinese architecture. Actually, they’re both respective “Chinese” towns built in the mid-1800s in two different hemispheres. When you end up travelling a lot you start to notice similarities. I suppose I’ve just developed a keen eye for 華僑 Chinese diaspora communities.
