Cultural Issue

Cultural Issue…

Well, as you know (or may not know) I live in the Dominican Republic (have lived here all my life, and probably will be here for the rest of it).
Life in the Dominican Republic is somewhat different from life in the United States.
Being a Dominican geek is very, very VERY hard.  Why?  No geek culture here, it’s difficult to find someone that shares your geeky interests.

For example, take me and my husband, geeks by nature, our hobbies include playing World of Warcraft and... well…uhm… also playing World of Warcraft :).  World of Warcraft is my newest passion but haven’t found a single Dominican playing the game (not everyone is as big a geek to pay US$15 a month to play the MMORPG).
Well, our hobbies include other geeky activities such as watching science fiction and fantasy tv shows and movies, reading sci-fi and fantasy books, software development :), playing video games and mess around with new technologies, but of course, our recent encounter with World of Warcraft has moved all those other hobbies to a “less interesting” place.

I can’t talk to anyone else in this country about Battlestar Gallactica or Serenity, because no one I know even knows what it is.  Don’t get me wrong,   I’m pretty sure there are plenty of Dominican geeks just like us out there but we are such an extinct species that we are very hard to track.  In World of Warcraft my husband and I joined a Guild.  A Guild in World of Warcraft is basically a group of players that get together, form a group and chat and play together when online at the game.  Our Guild is called Old School, we’re just a bunch of “normal geeks” who have a real life outside the game (work, school, kids, spouses, etc), our ages ranging between 18 and 46.  I really enjoyed last night talking to them remembering things we did in the days of our kid and teen years such as watching MTV when it played videos, Saturday morning cartoons, watching E.T. the first time it was shown in theaters, Nick at Nite, and a bunch of other things that I’m pretty sure most American people from my generation have experienced, but not really sure about the number of domincans that have lived it.

I really love seeing the amount of Dominicans blogs on the web, it makes you feel you’re not alone in a “American populated internet”.  Most of blogs maintained by Dominicans either living here or on another country can be found at http://www.dominicanblogger.com.

Well, look at the time, time to get back to coding.  I’m trying out the Blogger Addin for Microsoft Word for this post.  I just hate writing inside the Blogger HTML thing.  Let’s see how it shows.