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antimatter98 (537 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-24-09 09:25 PM Original message |
Britons flee French island of Guadeloupe as rioters turn on white families |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-24-09 09:36 PM Response to Original message |
1. My hubby and I spent our honeymoon there at Club Med in 1986. |
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whoneedstickets (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 09:18 AM Response to Reply #1 |
14. Stopped there on a Cruise in the mid-80s too.... |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 10:03 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. We chose this particular Club Med because it was the "most French" of all of the Clubs Med. |
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Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-24-09 10:28 PM Response to Original message |
2. Wow things are getting rough everywhere - can't say I blame the folks there for being angry nt |
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HooptieWagon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-24-09 11:08 PM Response to Original message |
3. If the rioters kill the tourism industry |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-24-09 11:28 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. There's something disgusting |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 04:02 AM Response to Reply #4 |
9. I really don't think people burning down their own neighborhood is ever a good idea. |
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cobalt1999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 09:08 AM Response to Reply #4 |
12. Without tourist dollars, the island will support about 1/10 of the people on it. |
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Lost in CT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-26-09 10:05 AM Response to Reply #12 |
18. I've been saying the same thing for years about Haiti. Unfortunately immediate humanitarian concerns |
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HooptieWagon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-26-09 10:00 AM Response to Reply #4 |
16. I suppose they could return to the sugarcane plantation days |
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Lost in CT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-26-09 10:04 AM Response to Reply #4 |
17. So Americans shouldn't travel overseas?? |
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Chulanowa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 12:57 AM Response to Original message |
5. "White" families? |
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Turborama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 04:49 AM Response to Reply #5 |
11. Actually, according to the rest of the story, there have been "racial tensions" on that island for |
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PFunk (687 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 01:10 AM Response to Original message |
6. If our finiancal situation deepens any further then this could be a future US |
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Mr. Hyde (314 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 03:16 AM Response to Original message |
7. uh oh, sounds like trouble in paradise. |
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excess_3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 03:50 AM Response to Original message |
8. tourists bring mcjobs |
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Turborama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 04:10 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. Not everywhere |
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cobalt1999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-25-09 09:11 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. Florida was built on tourists |
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Lost in CT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-26-09 10:07 AM Response to Reply #8 |
19. They are on a Caribbean island... what other industry would you recommend? nt |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-26-09 10:09 AM Response to Original message |
20. I think we will see this more and more |
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