(April 6, 2015 at 10:48 pm)Polaris Wrote:(April 6, 2015 at 10:45 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: If you are referring to the U.S. capital, I have been there recently, in quite a few parts of the city, including in parts that are (horrors!) full of black people, the poorer parts of the city, including east of the Anacostia River, and in SE DC.
Now, if Haiti is, contrary to what I have heard, a paradise, then maybe your choice is right. But if the wikipedia article on Haiti is right, then your claim is ridiculous hyperbole. My guess is that you are just being silly.
Of course, the Haitians do have a cool accent.
I lived in Washington D.C. for three years (plus another two just four blocks away) and we weren't joking when we talked about it having worse demographics than 3rd World nations. I stopped watching the news because I got tired of hearing of people getting killed every day.
Your comparison is still ridiculous. Take a look at:
https://www.osac.gov/pages/ContentReport...?cid=15745
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.