Haitian Hat Dance with a Milwaukee
Brewer’s baseball cap

In our web site Haiti, Return to Slavery or Freedom the extreme poverty of people and suppression of human rights in Haiti is evident yet a deep down beauty shines through. However, the sense of humor of the Haitian people was not communicated until yesterday. A friend from the delegation send me this YouTube video Apple’s IPhone 4s, Siri, Speaks Haitian Creole. Watch it, laugh and appreciate this Haitian humor brought to you by the Haiti X Change.

It was coincidentally that yesterday our upgraded cell phone, Apple I Phones 3Gs, arrived in the mail. It does not speak but get do a lot of things. I am resisting the temptation of playing around with it but still trying to get the basics, my phone numbers and calendar on it. It is an amazing device and makes a wonderful contrast to the situation in Haiti where it is hard to find a paved road, decent housing or clean water despite the millions of dollars invested in Haiti after the earthquake. In the IPhone we can see the time and money invested in it by Apple. In Haiti we still ask the question: Where did the money go?

This brief video shows how the Haitian people can take all the negative attitudes and stereotypes of its people and still live on, by using the gift of humor in Haiti.

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