Yeh, this place confuses me in a way sometimes hard to articulate, but no excuse for certain behaviors. In Cambodia it was quite easy to drive around and pick fruits for free, especially noni fruits, which are stinky and mushy mess on the ground. We turned that abundance into a noni juice business.

I think skin color certainly is a factor here, but also language and nationality too, and I think nationality is a much bigger factor. There are many Cubans, Brazilians, and Venezuelans here too, and many of them are white people, often blue-eyed and blond-haired, but they are at the bottom of the socio-economic class here.

In most places white skin would be associated with wealth, but here it could mean you are a migrant. I think the locals know the European and US Embassies evacuated and repatriated their citizens nearly a year ago, so I assume they think there must be a really profitable reason we have stayed behind, when the opposite is actually true.

Pretty soon I'm gonna have to turn on my aggro Jamaican personality to check the people!!

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