Yes, arguably those countries are shitholes in terms of their functioning economies.
That isn’t the point, however. The economy is one thing, but he also insulted the culture and the people themselves. Why is it so hard for this 71 year old 8th grader to just show some basic respect for other nations regardless of what they are and how they are perceived?
Well as far as showing them respect, he did make the comment behind closed doors, didn't he? Trump uses a bad selection of words all the time, i would admit it doesn't sound presidential to me, but at least his comment was not meant to be a public address. It was only because of a 5th grade snitch that the words shithole were plastered all over television. that wasn't really necessary. The 5th grade snitch should have handled it like a man instead. Giving Trump a piece of his mind, face to face and asking for clarification about his comment would have been sufficient, but then, CNN would not have been able to parade one more thing in the effort to bring down Trump.So you could say it was a good thing for national news to get that out there.
As for Haiti being a shithole though, you are right. It's only because of their economy, well, they did have a rough start as a pirate haven, and I believe it's true that the International controllers of world currency have kept many of the carribean nations at a disadvantage especially at crucial times in their development. But regardless of the reasons, their society has descended to a lower level in some ways, and greatly because of poverty, and being isolated.
Haitian people are actually pretty nice, and like all people they are not inherently stupid. I know 4 people who are Hatian here in the US, one is a doctor, one is just a house wife with three kids and two are engineers who go back and forth from The island of LaTortue and California , because they own land and have a foundation on the island for their village. Honestly these people I know are really great,wonderful, its a small sample size though, if you go there youll sort of see that because of desperation and hopelessness life has become cheap in some ways but the potential is there. I have a close friend who worked with these guys directly over the last 8 years with their foundation, and In developing a primary school all the way up to college studies on the island. I'll tell you when she first started trying to get kids to go to school there, she could not stop them from throwing rocks at each other, and had to battle with the parents to let their kids go to school on days other than when meals were served, which was only 2 days a week. In other words, at least in this isolated place, they had to re-learn the value of education. But as years went on... the students themselves were asking for a college professor at the school. So what that tells me, is that though Haiti may be a shit hole for many reasons, the people there are still actually pretty amazing. faced with the fact that the ferry boat to the mainland was too dangerous for visitors, they two brothers built a three mast sailing boat by hand, the old fashioned way with hand tools and it looks amazing . The people are not stupid, In some ways they could be smarter than us with our modern conveniences. On the other hand though, look at the pictures where people throw garbage everywhere. they do that because they don't care, and just have to re-learn some of these things like conservation. I saw the same thing in Africa, people just throwing their wrappers of food wherever they happened to open them, and people burning garbage everywhere, and cutting down too many trees it's really a mess, and honestly, in those ways it is a shithole place to live. it just so happens that at the same time its in places that could be like paradise under the right circumstances.
Point trump was trying to make i think is if you bring to many millions of people all at one time who have not YET , learned the value of education and not throwing garbage everywhere, and throwing rocks and bottles at each other all at one time, it makes it pretty hard to assimilate. There is a point to be taken there despite the rough words.
