KidStranglehold:

I know which is why I made it a point to say Dominicans in the island are different from the ones in the states. Same with Puerto Ricans. Different culture.

And from my experience I have seen Dominicans marry Jamaicans or Haitians especially in the states. Haitians due to them and Dominicans sharing the same island. This is why I never took this Dominicans always hating Haitians seriously in real life, but only on the internet where its blown out of proportion(me being part Haitian). My father who is Haitian was about to marry a Dominican women. And the family were chill.

Yeah, maybe you have seem one here other there but doesn't mean Dominicans are marrying them or anything like that.. Dominicans even in DR, do not marry haitians. Also Haitians hating Dominicans...

KidStranglehold:

Of course. And my thread does not deny this. Its mainly focusing on Afro and Mulatto beauty. The Mulatto who nI feel are the majority of the population, which correlates with the genetic data. Even the ones posted by you...

Nope... Not here in the states. BUT I have seen Cubans and Puerto Ricans especially resemble that kind of "white" phenotype. Also I have Puerto Ricans in my family through marriage mind you. That's how I know and am aware of islander Hispanic culture/people. Also Puerto Ricans on average have more European admixture/ancestry than both Dominicans and Cubans. Cubans being "second".

Again this just my experience...
The bolded is most likely the case. And what do you mean as in "pure" if I may ask.

I have seem many Dominicans who do resemble that kind of phenotype in the US.. like i said most White Dominicans rarely immigrate..

Actually Cubans have more European ancestry than Puerto Rican on average.

According to PLOS Genetic the average Cuban is 72% European, 20% African, 8% Native.
while
According to National Geographic GEO 2.0 the average PRican is 64% European, 25% African, 11% Native.

Cuba was basically the last Spanish colony in the new world and this is why they receive more European in the last century of Spain colonization.

Mostly White Dominicans.

http://portal.bufeo.com/galleries/galleries/2405/

http://portal.bufeo.com/galleries/galleries/1443/

(Dominicans white & off-white kids)
http://portal.bufeo.com/galleries/galleries/505/

ALSO, you have to REMEMBER, White Dominicans DO NOT look like your typical White Anglo American of Northern European descent(English, Irish, German) but is of Iberian Southern European Spaniard descent..

khia:


He dosen't want to show the darker ones like the actress Zoe Saldana, He wants to pretend that the African blood disappeared in all Dominicans over time. That's why it's weird to him.

Zoe Saldana is HALF Puerto Rican, many black american think Zoe Saldana represent all Dominican women.. she does not represent the diversity of Dominicans.. you can check the first links i posted where you can find many black or dark skin Dominicans in the links.. you can obviously see them there.
The African blood did not disappeared, i posted the fact of Dominicans ancestry.. i posted pic of Dominicans but for some reason the forum deleted them all, maybe because it was too many.

khia:


Black Americans this Black Americans that, you don't know what the hell black americans think, and you just showed how messed up you are psychologically with your long boring rants about black Americans who could careless about you people.
I am black American and where do you get off saying who we hate and what makes you think we care about who you identify with, we sure don't need/want you.
Now back to my post show pictures of dark dominican men, they are much more attractive.

I been dealing with many black american like ur type, this is why i came to an African forum to try to re-educate Africans about Dominicans.. This lie about Dominicans have been spreading for the last couple of years by many black american for no reason other that u guys don't understand the Latin Dominican culture..

KidStranglehold:


This is different from my experience. Here in NY I've seen many Dominicans marry out. Though they were Americanized. I know many people that are a result of a Dominican marrying out. Mainly with other surrounding islanders like Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Haiti or American blacks.

Or could it be Dominicans in America are vastly different from those still living in the Island? Similar to Puerto Ricans in the states being different from the ones living in the island.

Now, you are talking about two different experience people.. Yes in NY there are Dominican who marry out but these are mostly very Americanized one, most are already second or third Dominican-American generation and already lost their cultural tie to DR.
Many marry out to Puerto Rican, which is common & Puerto Rican resemble more to Dominicans, so there isn't much difference between us.
Now, you rarely see marrying Haitian or Jamaicans, that's a rare thing, maybe more A.A. but then it's no something very common.

Now, i got asked about the Doms in the Island, which of course, they have another cultural experience.. so they don't marry out to stranger people from other culture.

KidStranglehold:


Not to come across as a know it all. You're Dominican and FROM Dominican Rep and know more than me about the people/culture. But I live in NYC, which imo is the state that has the most Dominicans behind Florida, and a good amount of Dominicans I see look like the ones I posted in the thread. One Dominican girl I dated resembled some of those pics. Just saying most Dominicans I see/hang with mostly resembles mulattoes/mestizos and sometimes light skinned African American. From my experience I hardly seen "white looking" Dominicans.

Most here in the state from what I've seen appear to be those with significant African admixture. Again this is just my experience and does not equate with everyone's experience.

Yeah of course, some Dominicans look like the one you posted in the pic, i was just speaking of diversity. Yeah most Dominican resemble a mixture of 3 races, just like Ricans & Cubans.
Now many white looking Dominicans are always confused as white looking Ricans or Cuban, am sure you have seem light white Dominican & you think they are white looking Cuban nor some other Latinos.. so, many people assume they are something else before assuming they are Dominicans..
Now, about the Pure White Dominicans, yes, it's hard to see them in the U.S. because they majority rarely immigrate and many are upper class people in the D.R. so they don't need to immigrate and people rarely see them as common.

khia:



First of all I am a woman, secondly, yes I know you Dominicans deny your African ancestry, as if all the Africans evaporated into the air.
But back to my point, just show some dark skinned Dominican men because I know that you have them.

Where did you got this lie from? how come Dominican deny something we learn in our schools, high schools, university, college.. ? I hope you not getting this lies & fallacy from Black Americans who hate Dominican, Puerto Rican, Cuban with a passion because we do not identify with them..

According to National Geographic GEO 2.0 the average majority 65% Mixes Puerto Rican are 64% Spanish European, 25% Afro & 11% Native American.
According to PLOS Genetics the average majority 55% Mix Cuban are 72% Spanish European, 20% Afro & 8% Native American.
Yet only Dominicans get the most attack by Black American because they think Dominicans are the only people in Latin America that has some Afro mixture because we make border with Haiti.
So no body question Cubans & PRican Afro ancestry, cuz they all think they are some kind of a new race.. Dominican get the heat the most because of our Haiti neighbor.
60% of Venezuela population have African ancestry from 90% to 20% or less percent Yet no body call out Venezuelan who population are majority Tri-racial.
Colombia is the third country with more Black people in the Amaricas after the U.S. & Brazil yet no body call them out.

According to University of Panama, the average majority Panamenian is 38% Afro, 35% Native America & 27% European Yet no body call them out.

This fallacy about Dominicans came mostly from bias articles & specially the most bias & fallacy so called "documentary" call "black in L.A." where Dominican history,culture, tradition, ancestry was JUDGE & FILTER throw an AfroAmericanized experience, lent, point of views, history & social racism..
You cannot judge another culture throw your own cultural standard, that's just ridiculous.

Black American identify by Race & Color while Dominicans, PRicans, Cubans, & the rest of Latin America identity ourselves by Nationality & Culture.
This is where the "dominican deny afro" came from.. because they think Dominicans are the only one who has Afro ancestry in L.A. for the reason of making border with Haiti...
Black Americans equal Black(color) with African(race) ancestry.. they say, if you have some "One Drop Rule" of Afro dna in you.. you are automatically "black" & Latinos in Latin America did not have the racist "one drop rule" & this is why this doesn't apply to us, and that's the reason the majority Dominicans who are Mixes say " we are not black, but mixes" because in Latin America once you are Mix, you are not longer black or white or native.
When a Dominican or PRican or Cuban say " am not black but mix" what he is saying is that he is not black as negroid pure looking but that he is a mixture of 2 or 3 races.
Black American think by Mixes Latinos saying "am not black" they think Latinos are denying African ancestry, this is where the error came from.. this is the confusion. Black American think that once you have some Afro ancestry, you are just Black & nothing else and if you don't say so, you are in denial & you are a self hater.. This is why Black American are the most fck up psychological mental people in the Americas.

People need to respect Latin America identity where almost all people identify with their Nationality & Culture instead of Race or Color...

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KidStranglehold:


How are they weird? But more importantly their mostly Afro/Mixed Dominican women which the thread is about.

I mean, the tread is good but it doesn't show how the majority of Dominican women look like and how diverse our women are.. but i do understand it was about the more afro looking Dominican women, i understand but the way you portray it, it was as if all women have those type of looks, always make sure to tell people that no all Dominican look one way but we are very diverse in our looks, colors, etc.
no worries.

husseinjnr:
@yodanyrd , can you please do a "Dominican Republic in a week " tour guide for us. This is to help intending tourists.

I will appreciate something like the London in 7 days below. Please I will appreciate clarification on places to go and places not to go (Talking of security concerns).

Thank you

i don't know if i can do that bro, lol that's too hard.. like i said, before RD1.com is the best website to travel to DR.. any information, u will have it there.
however if you go to DR, i don't recommend you to go to Boca Chica, and neither go to certain places in the Capital right now, i don't have the specific places.
Go to rd1.com and go to the forums, you will get alot of help there.

khia:



Show pictures of dark skined African Dominicans.

Sorry bro, there is not such thing as "african" Dominican, neither "european" Dominican..
or "afro" Dominican or "euro" Dominican..
It's no existence in our culture, we Dominicans are just Dominicans no matter our skin colors or features.
There is not difference between us, when i speak about mix,black,white Dominican, am using political correctness so it can be much easy for u to understand what am trying to explain but between Dominicans, there is not such thing, yes we have color skin description, but they are not attacked to identity or any sub-culture like in the United State, where you have the White(different culture/identity) and the Black(different culture/identity) Americans..
For us, we only have ONE culture, one identity, which is Dominican, we don't have different sub-identity.

zeongeon:
Mr I tOo know..let the dominican dude be...how he goes about his post doesn't matter..everyone has his or her style..as long as he is educating us and is willing to answer questions...what more do u what again...dominican guy good work so far..what is the dominant religion in D.R? What careers are topping the list in D.R? What does a typical DR boy or girl for fun? Do D.R people finding it easy to marry black people from outside D.R? What are the names of good universities in D.R?

Thanks brother.. i appreciate your understanding. All am doing is the way i think is right, i don't know much about this forum. Am trying my best. Sure am willing to answer any question.
& thanks bro
The dominant religion in DR is Christianity, mostly Catholicism & Protestant is very respected too.
Medicine & Teaching always top the list in DR. Well most typical Dominican do for fun is party, go to clubs, listen to many Latin musics, drink, & many fun stuff in our rivers and beaches which get full of people specially in the summer.

Hmm honestly no, it's not easy to marry black outside of DR, most Dominican are very Dominican-Centric ( if that could be a word), no matter how white or black or what ever you are,, most Dominicans don't see their children marry other people but Dominican.
Most black outside of DR don't speak much Spanish unless they are black from other Spanish speaking country which they rarely travel. Unless you are supper rich and have money, then you have a better change, but i doubt it because in DR most very dark Dominican, are always poor and people don't see them as "rich" , it's not a racist thing, but a classim thing, like i said before. If you are White or look very white-mix, then most people assume you have money.
Universida Autonoma de Santo Domingo is one of the best..

KidStranglehold:

https://www.nairaland.com/1870281/beauty-dominican-women-most-african#25705887

I apologize for any of the racy photos.

yeah those pictures were very weird and don't represent much the diversity of Dominicans women.

Penssuwa:

Wow, thatz a nice one indeed, but frankly speaking, it beats me to hear that you've not heard African songs that much, especially at this age when African musics are rocking airwaves in America. Maybe you can google these songs: Beautiful Onyinye by P square ft Rick Ross , Personally by P square, Aye by Davido & Black is beautiful by Flavour.
I'll surely check those videos u posted the links at my leisure.

Thanks bro.. & yeah sorry bro, i did heard them in youtube like i said before, i found many interesting African musics and thank, i will check the artists you gave me. Hope i can find them in youtube.
& alright bro

MisterG:




Probably so, I am not here on Nairaland that often to notice. Maybe due to a possibility your people are related to them, whereas the website i normally visit Ethiopian, Eritreans, and Somali your people are not in our radar. Since we are not related to you, in a genetic level.



It is the contexts, anyone can see nothing is sexual and that the societies he presented are traditional from his first thread.



I wonder if that similar to Cuban Salsa music.

Hm okay, me neither, ima see if i can PM you.. i would like to know ur those website.

yeah it's kinda of similar, you can watch the video i posted early.

teeowl:
cool... so once a person works hard and smart to make a lot of money, he sits on top of the food chain - Just like in Nigeria.

Exactly bro... u got it right

MisterG:


Definitely not mad.

You should had use a map first, as showing the location of your country, not everyone knows where or what a Dominican is. If i ask my fellow East African (horner), he or she would not have a clue what that is or what a Dominican is, because you are not in the radar from our perspective. Then you present your people, and show pictures of your different cities, from people enjoying themselves in restrauants, entertainment, train systems, business district, etc. You should had presented it similar to this. It would been more enjoyable instead of a parade.

https://www.nairaland.com/2199930/northern-kenya-culture-people
https://www.nairaland.com/2111309/east-african-coast-culture-people


https://www.nairaland.com/2081752/cushitic-people-most-beautiful-people

Yours is more like picture porn, in comparison to what Gallivant presented in regards to Kenya. However it is all good continue on.

What is your cultural music or traditional dances.

I mean, am now here, and never knew people would make tread like that. It's true what you said, i should had give more information. I thought many already knew about us, because i search "Dominican" and it was mentioned in many treads.
Thanks for giving me some tips.
But next time, have some respect for my people, they might look "porn" but you need to remember, we are Latin-Western world, so it's more a liberal thing than anything else.
I wouldn't call it porn when many in the picture of the Kenya tread appear almost naked, no offense but you get what am saying.


Now, our traditional music are Bachata, Merengue, Mambo, Perico Ripiao but the most famous ones throw out L.A. are the first 2 and they are a blend of Euro/Afro heritage.
We have a more Afro tradional dance call "Palos".

teeowl:
Is there any discrimination against blacks or African people in your country?

Well, if you mean discrimination between Dominicans, no there isn't. Dominicans are a very united people despite our difference in colors, races, and phenotype.
If there could be any discrimination, it could happen between a very high class white Dominicans who might want to keep the whiteness and no let any of her children marry a darker one.
What we have in D.R. it Classism. Which mean you can be dark a.f. but if you have money, you are look up too and you can be the whitest looking Dominican and if you are poor, you would be treat like any body else or sometime worse depend on who you are. With this, am not saying people go around treating each other bad lol, but it's just an example.
So yeah, Classism is what we have.. no so much racism...

Now, of course, some Dominicans don't want nothing to do with Haitians, Let Me Make this Clear.. Dominican do not like Haitians NOT because they are black.. that's a lie and a fallacy against us. There are many black Dominicans and we all treat each other with respect and see each others as brothers.
However Dominicans have some negative view about Haitians because of our pass history and their massacre & occupation of our territory, our high different in economy/religion and the way they carry themselves which is very different from us. Many Haitians are entering the country illegal and are taking jobs away from Dominicans by getting cheap pay which have furious many Dominicans. Dominicans are 10 Million and now the country have almost 3 Million Haitians who 98.9% are Illegals, which is costing the country more than 500 Million dollars per years by giving them free education, free health care, and other costs which they would have to pay back in Haiti. This is why 70% of Haitians don't know how to read/write because they gotta pay to get education in Haiti.

morpheus24:


Yall remind me of the people refered to as "Coloreds" in South Africa, kinda the same mix... Malaysian, European and African. You should look it up, you will see the similarities.

Ah foreal.. lolz that's a good thing i guess.. and yeah i knew there was Mixes people in South Africa but didn't know they were called "colored" thanks.

This is my country
Dominican Republic
For the guy who asked about how our cities look like.. here is your perfect video.
Make it H.D. as soon as possible..
Keep watching it until minute 1:20 and you will start to see the beautiful modern cities.

Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKFafMxaN68

Penssuwa:
Another question; do you guys listen to African songs or have you listened to any African music?
Do you have any popular musician in ur country....and his name.
Do you have any perculiar culture or are your people of the too-liberal type.

Well, like most Latin America countries, our culture is base mostly in the country Latin(southern Euro) base Cultural influence, in other words, catholic, latin base language, tradition, etc.
The country was once very conservative but now we have a more open mid country, with some areas still conservative and other specially the cities very liberals.

Penssuwa:
Another question; do you guys listen to African songs or have you listened to any African music?
Do you have any popular musician in ur country....and his name.
Do you have any perculiar culture or are your people of the too-liberal type.

No brother, i have never meet or seem a Dominican listening to African songs, & pretty sure even if they would want too, it would be hard to find it.
I actually did watched some African music videos few months ago, i end up in an African youtube channel and from there i watched some, there was one which is call "mama africa" i think that's how its call.. but trying to listen to them, no so much cuz i dont understand the language, buti do love the rhymes.

Oh YEAH.. haven't you heard of BACHATA music?? wow that's weird, it's all over the world, it's a international genre.

We have the highest paid & famous Latino musician which is
Remeo Santos
His video are one of the most watched in youtube.

Romeo Santos: "Propuesta Indecente" 628,000,000 Million views.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFs3PIZb3js

He also have others songs/videos. I will post them later.

Also we have Prince Royce with his "Darte Un Bezo" 503,000,000 Million views.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdOXnTbyk0g

They are both Dominicans.
Bachata is one of the most top know/best music in Latin America.

It's instruments are a mixture of our Spanish guitar and our African bongos and other western influence & native Dominican instrument influences.
We also have other Very Highly famous singers such as
Juan Luis Guerra
J Alvarez
Arcangel
Nicky Jam(half DR)
and others.

teeowl:
is it true Dominican babes have big and juicy asses?... Just the way I like them...

yeah, trust me lol

KidStranglehold:
Mind if I use the picture of Dominicans posted?

For a thread I made. I just want your permission.

Yeah sure, i don't mind bro, as long as you gave me the link of your thread than am good, cuz u know, i won't want to give out pics without knowing what's going on lol

MisterG:


Your pictures are great and all, but you have diversity in Africa as well, Which is not a big deal.

So diversity is not new, and this is only west Africa, image entire continent vs a little island. Instead of spanning million pictures of people. Post historical monuments, Tell us your history, How healthy is the Dominican Republic economy. Tell us about your infrastructure of post them rail, business area, Telecommunication or IT areas. . Post different cities, and what is village or your small town like. Those of the things i like to know and make a comparison.

Nah bro, dont take it personal, i dont know much how u guys deal here, so dont take offense from me bro. I was posting pics of my people.. i dont know why u sound mad..
Well they are many such as Lembar the FIRST slave man in the whole Americas Continent to revort against the Spanish which we Dominicans take pride on him.

We have the Indian Native Enriquillo who grow up among the Spanish in Santo Domingo in the early 1,500's and he was the first Indian to take many Indians and rebelled against the Spanish occupation of the island and even success for a while bcs the Spanish made a deal to leave the Indians alone.

We have many White Spanish Dominicans who fought against the Spaniards from Spain such as Caceres, & Juan Pablo Duarte.

We also have Mulatos(Mixes) such Gregorio Luperon who fought against the Haitian brutal military occupation.
We Dominicans are proud of all our herous, no matter if they were Indians, Black, White, Mixes, or anything.

Dominicans Republic is currently the 9th largest economy in Latin America. Its a Caribbean Regional Power, its the second economy in Central-America / Caribbean. It has one of the biggest Top economy grow in the whole Americas with a grow of 7.5%, while most L.A. countries economy grow 1.5%.

We have one of the most fatest & moder Metro Train in Latin America, we had it around 2010-11. Its very new and run throw out the Capital. We have one of the best internet & telecommunications access in Latin America, most Dominicans own phones, or smart phones. The internet, one of the faster in the Caribbean.
Many people who dont know much about Dominicans, think we are just the "Spanish speaking" version of Haitians.

Penssuwa:
Nice, but you should have given us space to ask question, or are you just out to market your people? They look disarming though.
My question is, how do your people see Africans?

I mean, i wanted to show my people since i know most of you have never been exposed to us. But yeah my bad bro.
Well, Dominicans see Africans as anybody else see them, i dont want to sound bad but u know how the typical image of Africans is portray around as all poor, asking for food, etc which of course i know its no true bcs many African countries are booming. The average Dominicans dont think much about Africans, and neither about Europeans, Dominicans embrace their African heritages, which is already blend in our mix culture. But the view of Africans is not that strong because most Dominicans arent expose to them but only throw the media and we all already know how the media works about Africans. Honestly there isnt much influence straight from Africa, the only influence we have is the one that came around 300-500 years ago. Dominicans dont look much outside of the Latin America zone...

Am talking about the majority, but there are some minority Dominicans who would look up to Africans as a people of Africaness cultural influence.

Dont worry, if you meet a Dominican, they wont be racist or have a bad view about, many would threat you great as any person bcs we also have black Dominicans and we all see each other as the same.

watered:
Bro let's talk business and money. What agricultural produce from Nigeria sells well in your country?

Am no sure what Nigeria sell but if you guys are good at importing Corn & Wheat, then DR is your place to be.

If you check the website i gave you, u will find Africans asking similar questions.

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Mas

More pictures.

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