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aka World Poverty (Ghetto**) Observations



Bermuda -

Lodging in Hamilton, I traveled the Island via moped with multiple stops and visits. A wonderful place with pleasant, polite, helpful people and well-mannered children. I will visit again.
Some poverty (ghettoes**), even a few areas I wanted to speed the moped quickly out of.

Canada (*Space travel - see San Francisco)

Caribbean -

My favorite part of this trip was a day trip sailing/snorkeling off St Thomas where we came face-to-face with a big mouth-full-of-teeth Barracuda. The Caribbean is a wonderful place. Poverty (ghettoes**) existed on every island we visited in the Caribbean with over crowded ramshackle housing.

  • Antigua

  • Barbados

  • Martinique

  • St Martin

  • San Juan, Puerto Rico

Ecuador -

I rode a steam train down the Andes from Quito to Riobamba. Many stops, much poverty (ghettoes**), i.e. cardboard roofs, no locks, closed doors or windows, much mud, dirt, no "lawns". Everyone was pleasant, polite and NO (I mean not one) screaming, back talking child. Children rarely spoke unless they were asked a question. It was not fear that kept them quiet - they were all smiling and laughing quietly. At an open-air market in Riobamba women had their babies, including some toddlers, wrapped on their breasts in a blanket. We were documenting the market by taking photos. No one allowed their picture to be taken. They believe it brings bad luck or evil.

  • Quito
  • Riobamba
  • Guayaquil

Galapagos:

  • Santa Cruz Island
  • Isabella Island
  • Fernandina Island

Hawaiian Islands:

  • Oahu
  • Maui
  • Kauai

Los Angeles, CA: (*Space travel - see San Francisco) visits staying with friends who lived there

Bahamas: Nassau, New Providence Island and Paradise Island,

San Bernardino, CA: (US Festival '82) (*Space travel - WAY out there)

San Francisco, CA: lived there for one year (*Does living in space count as space travel?)

Van Nuys, CA: (*Space travel - see San Francisco). Yet staying with Leon Rippy (both a "character actor" and a "character" actor friend of ours) was as close to safety and normalcy as you can get! I guess that's because he's a Grover, NC via Rock Hill, SC gentleman.

USofA: many travels and lodgings - East, West, North, South and Central


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** ghetˇto ( P ) Pronunciation Key (gt)

n. pl. ghetˇtos or ghetˇtoes
1. A section of a city occupied by a minority group who live there especially because of social, economic, or legal pressure.
2. An often-walled quarter in a European city to which Jews were restricted beginning in the Middle Ages.
3. Something that resembles the restriction or isolation of a city ghetto: "trapped in ethnic or pink-collar managerial job ghettoes".

ghetto

n 1: Formerly the restricted quarter of many European cities in which Jews were required to live; "the Warsaw ghetto" 2: any segregated mode of living or working that results from bias or stereotyping; "the relative security of the gay ghetto"; "no escape from the ghetto of the typing pool" 3: a poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions

So no, there really are no ghettoes here like those in Mexico or Greece or England or Russia. The reason is because the ghettoes in Mexico are in Mexico, the ghettoes in Greece are in Greece, etc. 

There really are no ghettoes in the USofA by the strict definition of ghetto as "being restricted or trapped". The reason people living in ghettoes all over the world want to come to America is because here, no one is trapped.

Further explanation for those of you who need it:

You are not trapped or restricted to any area in America unless:
1. you choose to stay there
2. you vote for the Democrat Party candidates who keep you down on the ghetto
3. you are supported by the Democrat's welfare machine (see 1 and 2)

 

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