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i am not g simon, i am observer keen/patriotic sentinel. i have mentioned my characteristics as to counteract your presumptious claim that "i did not have the chance that you had had". as far as your parents are concerned, i have never heard anyone claiming to have come from ugly parents. your reference to the south-east of haiti apparently is to tap into the myth of jackmel as the premier region of beautiful haitians. on what logical basis are you calling me a chimere? words may have no meaning to you, but as a graduate of analytical philosophy, i was taught not to say meaningless things as they would haunt the ghost of wittgenstein, the pre-emminent philosopher of logical positivism. i do not intend to denigrate your biracial background for when i was in the united states army a sweedish lover of mine gave birth to my precious daughter, but if you think that your biracial backgroung is an inherent badge of greatness, read the following: the following texts are my responses to a pretentious dominican on a DR-POLITICS-ORIENTED FORUM who apparently and fallaciously tried to link haiti's misery to the fact that its population is predominantly african: "haiti may currently have cancer, but dominican republic has chronic diabetes. a diabetic is not healthy, but rather less sick than a cancerous patient. that analogy clarifies without ambiguity the objective difference between dominican republic and haiti. your country is being taken over by pseudo-nationalists who are no more than first-generation dominicans intent on perserving the ignorance of the masses in order to take advantage of their psyho-historical emotionalism vis-a-vis their hatian brothers. given the fact that the majority of dominicans are of mixed heritage, rejecting your african part is self-alienation; and the concept of self-actualization maintains that full self-integration be a prerequisite to achieving the pinnacle of humanhood. you will never be able to achieve full humanhood as long as you continue on advancing one part of yourself at the expense of the other part. i am a logico-mathematician who loves analogies in clarifying my points, so i have devised this analogy to describe the existential reality of my dominican brothers: "..a guy had gotten into a car-accident which left his right foot broken. after surgery, his doctor ordered him to go to physical therapy; but instead of applying physical therapy to strengthen his weakened right foot, the confused young man unwittingly does it to strengthen his uninjured left foot" the result is an assymmetrical man with an excessively outgrown left foot and a very neglected weakened right foot. in other words, he is a limping man, a caricature of a man. frankly, this is not only the existential reality of dominicans, but also the vestigial attitude of most former european subjects of african and mixed heritage. for instance, the dominicans' and haitians' futile attempt at trivializing the terms "congo" and "zulu" respectively reflects their existential assymmetry_the former knows what king carlos had eaten for breakfast while the latter knows the anecdotal escapades of napoleon without knowing any substantial facts about pre-colonial africa. whether you deny it or not, those genes are within you, they may give you sicle-cell anemia or a very nice chocolate color with succulent lips. the question is whether we are too comfortable with this assymmetrical existential state not to seek the acquisition of full humanhood. ps: a haitian president "geffrard" had successfully prevented a spanish expeditionary fleet from invading the young nation of dominican republic, for which he had to pay the spaniards a huge sum of money. our histories are linked_ in fact, the slaves in the spanish-dominated east were first fred by toussaint louverture, who were your now neglected ancestors and that haitians did not "technically" invade dominican republic but rather a spanish dominion with a governor-general appointed by the king of spain" the following is a response to a light-skinned dominican with an excessive pride: "there are in fact many american children in washington heights whose parents happen to be illegal dominican aliens. would it not be an injustice if the federal government unilaterally decided to exile these children along with their parents to the dominican republic? it would be a travestry of the american constitution to andanger the lives of american children by removing them from the land of their birth to ship them in their great-grand-fathers' land at a time of an ongoing civil war. if you would be enraged by such an injustice, why not extend the same sympathy to include the third-and-fourth-generation haitian-dominican children who are being exiled from the land of their birth under the pseudo-nationalistic pressure of a socio-economic dominant minority? does not the principle of moral invariance( kant's categorical imperative) demand that the same conclusions be made for the same situations? why is it injustice when one happens to be on the short end of the stick, but nationalism when the same one happens to be on the longer end of the same stick? isn't it self-evident that we are being morally inconsistent? aren't you demanding the right as illegal immigrants in the united states to obtain driver's licence? i am not ranting against my dominican brothers_ i am appalled by what i am observing, that is the hypocrisy, and the auto-destructive effects of self-alienation. it is seemingly true that mixed-race individuals tend to lead an apparently existential dilemma; but the answer to this apparent dillema is to be found in the mathematical rules of inequality. let's create the following categories: 2b,being full-blooded africans, (w+b) being mullatos, and finally 2w being full-blooded europeans. there are three possible relationships among these three categories, but let's look at the traditional relationship between the first two categories, namely 2b and (w+b). let's look at the traditional relationship of presumptuous superiority: (w+b) > 2b, as we all know, the mathematical rules of inequality maintain that if the same component is added to or reduced from both sides of the inequality, the relationship is conserved. in other words, [(w+b)-b] > 2b-b, which consequently leads to w>b. but, the relationship must also be conserved if one w is added to the new equivalent form of the original inequality. in other words, (w+w) > (w+b), which is 2w > (w+b). what does that have to do with the apparent existential dilemma of the mullato? the answer is that, if he bases his supposed superiority over the full-blooded african on his partial whiteness, then he is consequentially validating his inferiority relative to the full-blooded european. in conclusion, the only way that an individual of mixed heritage can attain the pinnacle of humanhood if and only if he equalized his components. without this collossal achievement, he remains an assymetrical being with an excessively enriched part of the self constrasted with a poor and neglected other part. that is what i have meant by a caricature of a man. i am not advocating for the reunification of the island contrary to the irrational fears of certain respondents, but rather mutual understanding; and that can only happen after we succeed in shattering the myths that have overemphasized our differences at the expence of our commoness. p.s: sending back illegal immigrants(the case of the bahamas) is not the same as the forceful removal of natives(haitian-dominicans) who are in fact more dominicans than the sons of fleeing nazis. denial is a defense-mechanism, not a cure! passivity is the criminal nature of cowards! observer keen" the following is a response to someone who thinks that dominican republic would be great if its government were to massively import low-class germans and dutch to replace the relatively darker dominicans: "have you wondered why they have remained low-class in meritocratic societies of western europe? being low-class in a country that rewards talent with amazing access to opportunity such as germany is vastly different from being low-class in a country that can barely satisfy its basic needs while still retaining the colonial vestige of class-discrimination based on blood-line. in other words, the low-class in dr is more a result of tradition or internalized fatalism than it is a result of lazyness or lack of discipline, whereas low-class in meritocratic contemporary germany would be a result of lack of a talent or discipline( a german who does not understand calculus cannot blame such a failure on a lack of available resources whereas santiago may have many potential gausses who are illiterate walking aroung naked). your tentative program of social engineering must have been inspired by the australian sucess; but, just because modern australia was created by low-class europeans does not mean that low-class individuals from contemporary western europe will necessarily duplicate that great success story. why? because the low-class of colonial britain was a result of societal pressures created by unfair discrimination agaisnt people of lowly birth( in those times, the low-class still retained its unexploited and underdevelopped talent, it was a victim of circumstances beyond its control such as fatalistic tradition and aristocratic oppression) whereas the low-class of comtemporary europe, a region that has been more or less meritocratic for quite sometime, cannot be said to be a result of crippling discrimination_ this contemporary low-class is either deficient in talent or it is very undisciplined. your failure to consider these relevant factors is symptomatic of this reactionary yearning, generally based on false logics, among european-wannabes in third-world societies. two different mechanisms led to the same thing, but you have assumed them to be the same. in conlusion, importing those low-class germans would not create the success of australia since your traditional dominican low-class is bound to have more raw talent than those low-class germans who have failed to optimize themselves in a meritocratic german society with its universal early-childhood education. you would do a better job by starting to educate your masses for they still have substantial raw talent in all human endeavors_ intellectual, cultural, economical, and technological, something that cannot be said for the comtemporay german or dutch low-class for the good reasons mentioned above."
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RE: On A Positive Note - Part 5 Of 50 - By G. Simon