Domincans seem to have issues. But Black people in the U.S. also have similar issues so
Its like the pot calling he kettle black (no pun)
yea we have all been white washed. trujillo tried to whiten the race in the 50s to seperate us as much as he could from the haitians he hated so much. many afro dominican women have the same image issues african american women have. even in some families, people tend to treat the lighter skinned kid better than the dark skinned one. its all a product of the same systematic racism. we all the same at the end.
these arguments are purely based on the interpretation of the word black. u will find many educated people that say black = african american and u will find just as many that will say black = all people of african descent.
when u look at a country like DR, its just a case of extreme nationalism. dominicans are just among the most proud nationalities that exist. so it blurs the lines of perception when it comes to us.
at the end of the day tho, like i keep saying, any dominican that will honestly deny his african ancestry is an idiot and shouldnt be taken seriously.
Predominantly Caucasian, according to genetic testing. Euro and African are about evenly split. But the average Dominican is also like 15% Middle-Eastern/North African. Native Taino admixture is minimal.
predominantly caucasian?
you gotta be trolling at this point
bro i had to give up. it was like arguing with a plant.
everybody watch this video if u didnt.
pretty much what it amounts to is, AAs dont understand what it is to be latin. african americans or blacks, whatever you choose to call yourselves, you guys are a group from one country. so u dont have to identify yourself as more than just a race. there are more than 20 latin american countries. all of them spanish speaking with the exception of brazil. we all have our own history and our own culture, so we fly our flags high in a manner of speaking. we are all just super nationalist. call a salvadorean mexican and u will see what i mean. our main identity is our nationality because we all share a similar composition of race. we are all either majority mulatto or majority mestizo. so all the mestizo's want to carve out their own identity and the mulattos wanted to carve out their own.
a dominican will be just as indignant at being called a puerto rican or a cuban as he would at being called black or white. not because we feel above them, its just a hyper nationalist thing.
in the same token, we are so proud of being dominican or cuban or puerto rican, that we absolutely love and adore EVERY aspect of what our culture is composed of. whether it be the european guitar or african drums that make up ALL of our music, or the asian rice and african plantains that make up our cuisine, or the american sport that we are so passionate about, or the chinese game(dominoes) that we can play for days on end.
we all love mama africa brehs lets just leave it at that and respect the differences
Very often too. Non-Latino Americans are always trying to erase someones identity because they don't fit into their perception of what a Latino looks like. So you have them trying to tell a Latino what they are.
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