Honduras: Dignity is natural

Honduras has historically been a place of multicultural cohesion. When compared with Guatemala's social contrasts, Salvador's hard working spirit or Nicaragua's strong sense of self, Honduras has always been a place of rich mixture and easy adaptation. The Civil wars that plagued the Central America of the 80's was never really the case in Honduras, although, Hondurans where indeed affected through policies that promoted aiding external right-wing groups on all three borders, as well as in-house. When facing great disasters, like the Cholera epidemic back in the early 90's, or Hurricane Stan (20,000 Killed), Hondurans braced each other like the brothers they are and managed to mobilize faster than expected. True, when the intensity of the damage had passed, much like New Orleans Katrina, reconstruction took for ever...

Hondurans are a people who take pride in hosting others, and feel proud of being called friends, they are aware of the beauty of simplicity and are keen to spotting the differences between genuine good natured relations vs. fake ones. And while most Hondurans will not welcome a stranger with a fake smile, and in that sense they are more likely to look at a stranger with open distrust, when genuine good intentions are manifested, they will indeed be open to becoming true friends.

Immigrants from various parts of the world have found themselves welcome in this great country. From North American to Southern middle eastern, racial background has never been a significant problem in Honduras, and variety is always growing. There isn't much more to say about it, you'd have to experience it yourself. A visitor who naturally treats people with dignity will find himself rewarded with the same treatment tenfold.