Is it weird wanting to go back to a small developing country?
Not many people seem to understand it, especially not the ones who left this developing country 30 years ago to live in (for example) the Netherlands, where I am currently studying. Weird right?
Okay now, maybe I am not being totally honest. This particular country is Suriname. If you do not know where this is, Google it! (and just like that, I made you 0.1% smarter). I was born and brought up in this warm: Caribbean like, but not in the Caribbean, in South America, but not Latin-American like country. I could go on. Just one more…Indian, Indonesian, Chinese and African like, but NOT that country. Love it!
And bonus: we speak Dutch… WOW right? Even people in the Netherlands (University students!) do not know that there is this ‘other’ Dutch speaking country which was colonized by the them (Dutch) centuries ago…
But anyways. Suriname’s economy is failing. I won’t talk politics, even though I also, once, wanted to study politics instead of engineering, I am remembering a lot of things about myself. So yes, I won’t, but it is heartbreaking when something like that happens to your beloved nation. Up till now it is not THAT bad, so there still is a choice, but what if this choice actually becomes so obvious NOT to chose?
I mean definitely the way of living is not so good as in Europe. But as I always say you CANNOT, CANNOT, CANNOT compare a developing country to a first world country. When the Europeans were on their way to colonize the world, we were friendly and welcoming to our new guests. Maybe we shouldn’t have. But come on! They had churches and big buildings around the 12th century (even before) and we were just eating sand.
So ultimately it comes down to, being happy in a country where the economy is failing or pretending to be happy in a European country with better health care system and economy.
Weird?
