Trujillo was the one that instilled nationalism and antihatianisimo to the population. There have always been some
at dominicans with dark complexion during the before Trujillo took over and when there were a small population of Haitians in the DR. DR like other non european countries have always been color struck. The animosity grew when the Haitians started to go into thr DR illegally a couple of years before and during the Trujillo era. Like how Hitler blamed the jews for everything bad that's happened in Germany after ww1,Trujillo did the same with the Haitians. He basically demonized them. The spainard brought the caste system to its colonies but when Trujillo took over he had people to classifying themselves on their cedulas either white or indio ( no moren@, rubi@,trigueñ@,jaba@,mestiz@,or etc). Black was reserved for the Haitians and the very dark skinned dominicans that were thought to be Haitian descendants. So alot of dominicans with my skin color during that time and to this day indentified themselves as indio because Trujillo told that the majority of have spanish blood due to our history and we look and have different culture comparing to the Haitians. That man was crazy but beside the antihatianismo,oppression, and the massacre he knew how to run the country, shyt went downhill after he got assasinated.