HopeKillCure
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The funny thing about this is that it sort of had the same “stigmatizing” result in DR and many other Latin American places.Did you know that legally there were NO Black Dominicans in DR for decades?
The dictator Trujillo, created school curricula that taught the country that the darker DRs descended from the native people who were on the island before the Spanish arrived. He issued national ID cards with NO Black racial category.....darker Dominicans were classified as Indio. The only Blacks legally were the Haitians there.
Guy was in charge for decades so perhaps several generations of DRs were taught this.
Ask your parents or grands..they'll tell you.
So you can imagine how American racial reality hit them having been taught that and coming here.
One of the big insulting things you can call a Hispanic is “Indio”. Men mock women, women mock each other, etc,. Being “Indio” is synonymous with poverty and disenfranchisement.
I don’t know about this dictator, but I do know about the whole “Indio” thing in Latin America. Many Hispanics hate Africans and Native Indians because of it
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