The general manager, a young Indo-Surinamese man named Avinash Radjkoemar, somewhat astonishingly invited me to join him and some friends and family at a resort owned by his childhood friend Nelson. (He did not know I was a reporter.) He called Nelson and set the terms: two days, one night, 200 Surinamese dollars (about $63 at 3.19 Surinamese dollars to the U.S. dollar). The invitation, I would soon learn, was indicative of two Surinamese traits: a warm welcome to visitors and an interaction of cultures that creates close friendship among residents with different backgrounds, while groups still maintain separate identities many generations after their ancestors arrived. Nelson and Avinash, for example, grew up together and consider themselves brothers.
Posted on: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 23:45:43 +0000
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