Haiti is a third world country by the very definition of third world. Aruba is not. I know what that freeper means and it's no use debating. Some people just love to be ignorant.
Haiti is a third world country by the very definition of third world. Aruba is not. I know what that freeper means and it's no use debating. Some people just love to be ignorant.
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It has been my experience that Dutch owned or Dutch influenced territories in the Carribean are clean, neat and beautiful.
Now the French owned/influenced are entirely different. Once visited the island of Guadaloupe...lots of potential -- beautiful pink sand beaches, but the place was a dump. The guide tried to excuse the island's condition by saying that Hurricane Hugo had caused it such extensive damage. But, at the time I was there, Hurricane Hugo had happened eight years earlier. You would think if it was the hurricane, the island would have been fixed up in eight years.
Same with St. Martins -- it's the French half of an island shared with the Dutch St. Maartens. St. Maartens, like Aruba and Curacao, is clean, neat, tidy and beautiful. St. Martins, the French side, is another dump.
I get the feeling that the Netherlands invests a lot in caring for their islands...France does not.