sashaisminniemouse previously said:

Thanx girl for the info.

I just got mad because there isn't a typical hatian look and there is no such thing as a black person not having black features. If its on a black person than those features are black, the people that black people orginated from (africans) are the most diverse race of people on the planet there are africans who look asian those who have straight hair those whose lips are thick, there are places where the people are tall and thin and places where they have more muscle mass etc. So there is no such thing as "typical negroid features."

I have friends from africa so I know.

Anyways thanks for the insight.

talia previously said:



I understand what you're saying but generally we were speaking of the most of the women in-present day Haiti. Not really black females all over the world or haitianas in the diaspora. And that's what the discussion came to be about later in the topic. Its really about the majority of females in Haiti today. http://www2.dominicantoday.com/dr/forum/dominicans-abroad/haiti/687/Well/3 If you click on that link and go to the 7th post down you'll see that PeRod the Dominicano agreed that this is the real look of most haitianas in present-day Haiti.

Lautaro previously said:

I think that much of the misunderstanding between the racial views of Anglo and Latin America could be summed up in the following statements by the social scientist Frank W. Sweet:

"Much of the misunderstanding is due to imprecise word usage. Given their word usage, the Anglo-American claim that Latin Americans are more racist is sincere and accurate. Likewise for the Latin-American claim that the U.S. is the most virulently "racist" society on earth.

Despite over a century of teaching by biologists, geneticists, and physical anthropologists, the vast majority of the U.S. public sincerely believes that our species comes in three or four "races." Americans rich and poor, educated and ignorant, and of every shade and ethnicity, believe this to the very marrow of their being (it can be subconsciously shown even in those who deny it) and nothing that you or I can say will change this. As a result of this belief, the vast majority of American parents teach their children from infancy that intermarriage is "a bad thing."

But few adults use the words "a bad thing." They articulate their discomfort as whatever is the current phrase for "a bad thing." A hundred and fifty years ago, when educated Americans wanted to reject an idea, they said it was "divisive." A century ago, the polite term was "against progress." Fifty years ago, whatever Americans wanted to reject was labeled "communist." Today, the buzzword for "a bad thing" is "racist."

In this context, what distinguishes Latin America from the United States is the latter's maintenance of a forcibly endogamous color line for over three centuries. The result has been the world-unique preservation of two genetically distinct U.S. populations (called White and Black). To Americans, of course, this is "normal" and Latins are horribly mixed. And so, needing to express their rejection of such mixing, Americans call the absence of a Latin-American color line the ultimate act of "racism." It is the current buzzword for "a bad thing."

In the eyes of many if not most Americans, the very fact that Latin Americans intermarried for centuries and are now thoroughly mixed is "genocide" and "lynching." In short, it is the ultimate "racism."

In the eyes of most Latin Americans, the above sentence is madness. It is the U.S. belief in "races," and in the necessity of preserving them, that is "racism."

There is no common ground for communication. Each side sincerely, honestly, uses the word "racist" to label the other's beliefs."

source: http://thestudyofracialism.org/about445.html

cibaeño75 previously said:



Very insightful individual, this Mr. Sweet.