Haha, yeah because you're so formidable with your single-minded, repetitive discussions. You need to get blackness off your brain, damn. Do you wake up and go to sleep thinking about being black, is there nothing else that interest you...at all?

Do you, Ark and CarlosFranco always go to sleep dreaming how to come on here to be racist and wake every morning, day and night finding new ways on being more racist in daily mission on how to tarnish the image of next door neighbor Haiti?

Point is, when there are other decent threads on here on many different matters, issues or topics you imbeciles seem to always lack the intellect to discuss them or always try to go out of your ways to say that are not DR related simply because or when you are not knowledgeable about them.

Yet at the same time, you hypocrites always posting defaming racist posts about Haiti and distorting Haitians with your derogatory remarks and comments expect for people to leave them uncontested. So yeah, I guess so...

Well said Tupapaupa, well said. Couldn't have said it better!

HOPING FOR CIVIL TOGETHERNESS.
Exploring The Differences We Share In Common.
By Wilgëens "AfroLatino" Rosenberg.



I strongly believe that Haitians and Dominicans can come to terms to respect one another and independently bring about better rational harmonious grounds in ways to collaborate mutually in prospects that can take advantage of our differences for goodness for both our citizens of the Island instead of tarnish each other.

Regardless of anti-Haitianism this and anti-Dominicanism that, the strong and historical resentment that exist between our nations on this one beautiful Island have in all measure been the result of past colonialist activity, present imperialist activity and constant elitism campaigns defending their own stakes of both foreign and personal interests that are preventing us both the people on the Island from burying all the prejudices that have for so long kept us divided from possible order to confer on establishing real effective peaceful coexistence on which we could concert positive and beneficial bilateral relations. Maybe it is about time there is a combination of both the Dominican Gará and the Haitians Rará thus possibly one day calling it, Gárá.


Dominicans and Haitians have affinities in common tying them both together culturally and ancestrally which go way far and beyond differences of racial boundaries more we can ever imagine, regardless of intense denials or fear to admit and realize such a tie.

P.S: Basically, I wish and hope that some decent Dominicans and Haitians on here might want to do some research on this syncretic African heritage that both people known as Gagá or Rará.

* Check this book out: "HAITIAN-DOMINICAN COUNTERPOINT: Nation, Race & State On Hispaniola." by Eugenio Matibag just in case some of you both are actually into reading.

ARKATYPE This is not authentic dominican culture, this was brought to our side of the island in the early 20th century. By guess who haitians LOL.....
http://www.artelatino.com/bayahonda/gaga.htm

HISPANIOLA MUSICAL REPERTOIRES.



In almost all aspects, sense and relatively many prospects of the word, musicians on the Island have reported and said that GAGA is rather the Dominican version of the Haitian RARA. Thus, practically, basically or essentially it is said that they are both the very same thing down to the very core. You see, the music of the Caribbean is a diverse grouping of musical genres.

In the words of Xiomara Fortuna "They are each syntheses of African, tribal Indian native with twist of European influences." Generally at one time in the past , all music that came from the West Indies thus Central-Latin America aka the Caribbean had simply just one category which was called "Antilles Rhythm." Some of the styles to gain wide popularity outside of the Caribbean include reggae, zouk, salsa, calypso, reggaeton and punta. Caribbean, Central American and South American music are all relatively linked ancestrally in roots. Especially since there once was a time any music from Central America used to be called Antilles music. What many West Indians thus in this case more so Haitians and even Dominican do not know is that in the Dominican Republic and Haiti we culturally have more musical genres than the common know norm ones the people generally know. For example, in Dominican Republic usually most people only know of Bachata, Merengue and Salsa when there are others like Gaga, Salve, Trova and Soukous and many folkloric ones.

Same for Haiti, most typical Haitians only know of Compas, Zook and Racine when there are others like Trova, Rara, Conbite, Congo, Rampa, Kadans, Soukous, Folklore and even the old Haitian Méringue which is told by many musicians to be the originality of the today Dominican known version of Merengue itself so says speculations... There is great fusions between teh music of both Nations on the Island that enstrumentally, musicians on the Island use almost the same tools to create their musical sounds.

P.S: Dominican singer Fortuna, Xiomara has proven to be the one prominent talented female musician on the Island to have crossed barriers in educating the people of the Island with her multiple stylistic personalities says is her mission: "to rescue and update a variety of forgotten rhythms and neglected styles from the Island which had been virtually exterminated" by the popularity of new founding commercial mainstream musical rhythms evolutionarily, mostly and only known today.

Wow, this post was a long time ago huh (lol)?

Haitian Merengue. Merengue is usually used in the carnival time.

Here one of the best merengue I listened.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rie7uOqzD6A

The song is taking about the haitian reallity. KALE DADAW KALE DADAW at the end could be traduct to: HAVE FUN,HAVE FUN !

Dear friend,

That was not Haitian Merengue. I did not say Haitian Reggea or Haitian Rap. I said Haitian Meringue.

Here is what comes close and it is in Spanish but performed by a Haitian old band. THe Haitian Meringue used to be played more often by bands that were Orchetra bands where the Sax, Trumpet are played much like in the Dominican Merengue...