au cap? Is that a local name for cap-haitien?

Cibaeno, yes cap haitien is called au cap among locals. I am not familiar with the outer cibao region but I had the opportunity to go there with someone that was orginally from there. I thought hey I might not ever get a chance again. I never heard of the place you are from.

you just did

Now that we´re talking about everyone´s place of origin, I might say that, although I was born here on the Capital, I lived the first fifteen years of my life on Eastern Santo Domingo (La Zona Oriental), that's one of the reasons explaining why some of the classy people over here are still frowning upon me, because, for them, I'm still that kid from "de aquel lado". LOL

San Jose de las Matas, is where my Dad is from. I've never been there but he tells me that there are goregous women in his town. NY4life speaks for itself. A proud American of Dominican Decent. Representing my people to the fullest. Like I say, American born and Dominican raised.

Au Cap. I've had the pleasure to meet beautiful dark-skin Haitian woman. In college, I went to school wtih one. She was amazing, beautiful face and wonderful body. A great combination !

Jacmel is one of the most culturally rich towns in Haiti and is known as the culture capital of the country. Jacmel is a colonial town which is much much more tranquil and peaceful than other areas of Haiti (especially the chaos of the urban environment). Although there are many blacks in Jacmel, it also has many mulattos along with a few white families. Because of the eurocentric perspective on beauty, perhaps it is why many outsiders (and dark skin Haitians as well) classify it as having the most pretty women in the country. It's a place to visit to relax and reminisce. The town is world famous for its carnival where the whole town participates and is an international hotbed for Haitian natif art. The town already gets quite a number of tourists and visitors and has immense tourist potential and I hope to see it one day rise to its well deserved status.

http://www.local10.com/video/15834295/index.html A video on Jacmel

Thanks for the video mr. Shin. For its rich Creole culture, Jacmel could be considered as an older sister to New Orleans, the mansions and all the other colonial houses have pretty much the same style found on the latter. Also, this city holds a special place in the history of Latin America, because it would be the place where the patriot Francisco de Miranda created the first Venezuelan flag on the year 1806.

You're very much welcome Lautaro, my friend. Many scholars agree that one can broadly reason with validity that the South American liberation movement technically started here in Jacmel due to the whole flag account and Miranda and Bolivar's presence here. New Orleans' style colonial architecture is supposedly inspired and directly influenced through Jacmelienne colonial architecture. Both cities have a Mardi Gras as well which further shows the link. Louisiana in general has connections with Haiti due to the considerable number of native creole Lousianers that have Haitian ancestry. I found an even more descriptive video (documentary) on Jacmel (it's in French however): http://youtube.com/watch?v=JgUpO37gsaE

Jaboa, I want to thank you for starting this forum. I think it was a very smart move on your part and I command you for it. As a child I saw and heard many things when it comes to being Haitian. I seen people get made fun of, mocked, and just simply ridiculed. These hurt me even more when I found out that kids of Dominican descent were among some of the people doing this. Thus for a long time I vowed to never let no one know that I was Haitian. In essence I was afraid of myself and my culture. There came a day that this changed and it was all because of this Dominican girl who I meet when I was in high school. Somehow she found out I was Haitian and for some odd reason wanted to know how to speak some Kreyol. As time and years went by I came to realize that not all Dominicans are racist and hold grudges against Haitians. In a way she made me love the Haitian in me because she wanted to learn about my culture. Even though there are times that I want to give up defending my culture, because of all the misconception put upon it. I always seem to find that last bit of strength within me. It is ironic but in a way fitting that it was a Dominican who made me love the Haitian in me. I believe if Haitians and Dominicans can take the time to sit and just talk for a minute, we can learn a lot from each other. I really hope we can learn to put difference aside to live in harmony, but a this moment I feel it is just a dream.