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The Republic of Honduras, a small country located in northern Central America, can be said to be completely transparent in its world influence.
The country is very poor and extremely backward in development, but Hondurans feel happier than other countries and regions.
Why is that?
(Flag of Honduras)
1. Backward Honduras
Honduras is about the size of Jiangsu Province on the mainland, with 18 provinces and nearly 300 cities.
One of the greatest tragedies of small countries is the overcrowding of housing caused by their small size and poverty, which is the biggest reason why many Hondurans are breathless.
Honduras' population density is not very large, there are more than 10 million people in the country, one-eighth of the population of Jiangsu Province on the mainland, but this still leaves Hondurans living in poverty.
(Capital of Honduras)
Hondurans are concentrated mainly in those important cities, and to the east, they are basically backward slums. It is true that the population density there is less, but it is also true that there is no enough to fill and the infrastructure is poor.
When it comes to infrastructure, Honduras is inferior to Myanmar. Some sections of the road seem to be dilapidated, but the government and the state are stretched thin and cannot be repaired at all.
As a "transport" artery, Honduras' railways are only in their infancy. But this start is a little too different from what we think of as the beginning.
(Hondurans)
The so-called initial stage, although hard, but there is hope. This is not the case with the railways in Honduras, because the government has no money, and the development of the railways has been at a standstill.
Without railways to drive the economy, without economic development railways, it seems to have become a bad dead cycle.
People living in Honduras are not without hardship, and the maximum salary of their factory workers is only 390 US dollars, which is equivalent to 2800 yuan.
(Honduran workers)
It seems to be quite good at this point.
But the pressures of their lives are enormous. In popular cities, house prices once rose to $1,000 per square meter. If you don't buy a house, many people will have to live in the "shack" of their hometown, and by that time, it will be difficult to fill their stomachs again.
For example, the pension of Hondurans is a problem, and Honduran officials have said this: "They are facing the dilemma of being old and helpless." ”
(Honduran Elderly)
Poor transportation, low wages, and high housing prices have made Honduras' economy sick.
In 2021, Honduras' GDP was just $28.4 billion. The mainland's GDP that year was 5,000 times theirs.
From this, it can be seen that Honduras' backwardness is real. However, with the formal start of friendly diplomatic cooperation between the mainland and Honduras in June 2023, some of Honduras' stubborn diseases may be improved to a certain extent.
(Honduras plant)
But it is clear that although Hondurans face considerable pressure to survive, their life is still good.
The happy life of Hondurans
Among the many indicators of happiness in a region or country, an important indicator is the fertility rate. This indicator is quite objective. There may be questions, then give birth, or whether you are happy or not?
(Honduran beauty)
Among the many laws, when life is difficult to a certain extent, the fertility rate will inevitably decline. Ordinary people's feelings about this law should be more obvious.
And the fertility rate in Honduras, which reached 2.3 in 2022, is still in the absence of incentives.
Compare with several countries with the same degree of poverty. The fertility rate in Myanmar in 2022 is 2.1, and in Cambodia it is 2 in this year. Don't underestimate these 20 percentage points, under the influence of many reasons, its influence cannot be ignored.
(Children of Honduras)
Of course, Honduras' fertility rate does not tell the whole story, compared with other backward countries in Southeast Asia, his fertility rate is still very low, but if compared with the developed countries of Japan and South Korea, their fertility rate is quite amazing.
The life of Hondurans is rich and varied, thanks to their cultural and ethnic characteristics.
Hondurans are of mixed Eur-Indian race, and their culture has become a self-contained over the years.
(Honduran Culture)
In terms of expression, Hondurans and Western European "Gypsies" are very similar.
They love musical instruments and a lifestyle of singing and dancing. Part of that is because they're too backward. If you don't have computer games to play, you can only fiddle with the "drum kit" at home, which is almost the feeling.
It should be known that Western countries, especially the Americas, should be the same as food deserts compared with China and Southeast Asia, but Honduras is an accident. Their cuisine surpasses that of other American countries in variety and taste.
(Honduran cuisine)
To a certain extent, this has also contributed to the emergence of a large number of "snacks" and "night markets" culture in Honduras as the mainland. Therefore, the nightlife of Hondurans is quite wonderful.
3. Honduran nightlife
Hondurans are also rotten, their rotten style is very special, they are more because of "helplessness" and "happiness" do not seek progress, rather than the opportunity but unwilling to work hard.
Being in Honduras, although there is a lot less taste of technology, but born in "grounded", where the big city, the square is slightly dilapidated, but there are still people organizing singing and dancing, and even the shadow of "square dance".
(Honduran "Square Dance")
Unlike the mainland, there are more young people in the square dance group.
They often come in groups of three or five, around the musicians to vent their emotions, dancing dance moves symbolizing freedom amid the unique sound of drums.
Hondurans can enjoy a meal while listening to music with a bowl of black beans, smoothies, or a unique Honduran "beef burrito" in hand.
(Honduras Night Market)
To be honest, this is not a high consumption.
Relatively backward countries, there are certain loopholes in management, but Honduras is relatively safe at night, although it is also chaotic in many times.
Young people in Honduras do not like to spend their nightlife in bars, preferring to gather around campfires and music.
(Honduran style)
Fourth, the advantages of Honduras
Honduras has many mineral deposits, but little development, one of the reasons is that the government cannot support the development of Honduran minerals; The second reason is that their precious metal reserves are not particularly large and difficult to develop.
Also dragged down by Honduras' backwardness is their tourism industry.
(Honduran coastal scenery)
A country south of the Caribbean Sea and immersed in the Pacific Ocean has a standard "west coast" beauty that can attract many foreign tourists. Even if there is no scenic spot, if you leave people on a beach, the scenery is "beautiful".
In addition, Honduras also has complete "Mayan monuments" and "Cosán ruins", which is even more attractive to foreign tourists, especially the "rich customers" of the Americas.
However, Honduras has some "poor cooking without rice". Poor transport development has seriously hampered the development of tourism in Honduras, especially in the post-pandemic era.
(Honduran Sea)
It is important to know that although there are too many obstacles to the development of tourism in Honduras, it cannot be denied that tourism is still an important source of income in Honduras.
To sum up, in that place, poverty is really poor, and happiness is really happy. Of course, for their population.
(Conflict in Honduras)
Optimistically, there is still hope for Honduras' development. From a pessimistic point of view, a small backward country like Honduras, which has been slow to develop for various reasons of its own reasons, is destined to be "unknown" forever, guarding its own acre and three-point land "in peace and happiness".
(A corner of Honduras)
Resources
Xiaolong. The peculiar style of Honduras[J].Grand View of Science,2011(08):17.)