First ,You need a bit more humility.

Second, Dominican Republic is an afro-caribean country on an Afro-caribean island.

Third, I doubt you count with the acreditations you want others to beleive you have.

Speaking about origins and the original distributions of different racial/ethnic groups the vast majority was black and white. Do you remember that more than 90% of the indigenous population was erradicated by a variety of infectious deseases .

Another thing, how there you add Puerto Rican to the equation! Did you forget that Puerto Ricans came after us. Are you even dominican?or you are trying to pass? lol

First ,You need a bit more humility.

Second, Dominican Republic is an afro-caribean country on an Afro-caribean island.

Third, I doubt you count with the acreditations you want others to beleive you have.

Speaking about origins and the original distributions of different racial/ethnic groups the vast majority was black and white. Do you remember that more than 90% of the indigenous population was erradicated by a variety of infectious deseases .

Another thing, how there you add Puerto Rican to the equation! Did you forget that Puerto Ricans came after us. Are you even dominican?or you are trying to pass? lol

Nina you need to get better informed and read your Dominican history, which apparently you ignore. You must learn about the Puerto Rican migrations to the DR and the constant migrations between all of the hispanic islands to include Venezuela, which appears you have no knowledge. There is no other island in the region which has had the same intensity and depth of racial mixtures as the DR.

The indian extinction is a myth perpetuated by the Spanish to appease the King and Queen of Spain the sponsors of the conquistadors. Therefore they had a vested interest in making sure this false information was disseminated throughout the Spanish kingdom. There is recorded history as late as the 17 and 18 centuries where native communities were discovered hidding in the hills, mountains and isolated areas of the Cibao and managed to survive but later intermingled with the criollos.

There were genetic tests performed which proved that a minimum of 28%-33% of the Dominican population are carriers of Taino genes and the vast majority of them were found in the Cibao.

And finally, can you please show me where and how I lack humility? It will be greatly appreciated if you can point it out to me.

Mejor de ahi se dana la explicacion!

sounds like christian/bonaoisimo or brasilenoisback

Probably every single Dominican has taino ancestry to varying degrees. The test gillermone is talking about only tested maternal liniege or mtDNA which is the direct maternal line, a person with a European, or African maternal liniege can have Amerind ancestry autosomally.

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Dominickers found in Northern Florida.

The Dominickers were a small biracial or triracial ethnic group that was once centered in the Florida Panhandle county of Holmes, in a corner of the southern part of the county west of the Choctawhatchee River, near the town of Ponce de Leon. The group was classified as one of the "reputed Indian-White-Negro racial isolates of the Eastern United States" by the United States Census Bureau in 1950.[1]

In contrast to these descriptions, photographs of known Dominickers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries show that their appearance ranged from fair-complected to swarthy, but not "Negroid," as claimed; the women, especially, seem to have had an olive-skinned, wavy-haired "Mediterranean" look. Indeed, one scholarly writer, a native of the area, states, "Most of these people are Spanish or Cuban in appearance."[3]

The typescripts give five different accounts of the Dominickers' origins, which are said to include Euchee Indian ancestors, suggesting there were originally several distinct mixed-race families in the area in various combinations of white, black, and Indian blood, descendants of whom intermarried, all of them eventually being considered Dominickers. One typescript states firmly that "they are about three-fourths white and one-eighth Negro and one-eighth Indian."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominickers

DOES THIS STORY SOUND FAMILIAR? This is very Dominicker/Dominican to me...

Melungeon

is a term traditionally applied to one of a number of "tri-racial isolate" groups of the Southeastern United States, mainly in the Cumberland Gap area of central Appalachia, which includes portions of East Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, and East Kentucky. Tri-racial describes populations thought to be of mixed European, sub-Saharan African, and Native American ancestry. Although there is no consensus on how many such groups exist, estimates range as high as 200.[1][2]

DNA testing of Melungeon descendants has been limited, but the Melungeon DNA Project, which has made its results public, so far shows overwhelming mixed European and sub-Saharan African haplotypes of females and males in several families traditionally identified as Melungeon and considered so by researchers.

During the 19th century, due to their intermarriage with white families and descendants of increasingly white appearance, Melungeon-surnamed families began to be classified as white on census records with increasing frequency, a trend that has continued to the present. In 1935, a state of Nevada newspaper anecdotally described Melungeons as "mulattoes" with "straight hair".

As the scholar Ariela Gross has shown by analysis of court cases, the shift from "mulatto" to "white" was often dependent upon appearance and community perception of a person's activities in life, who one associated with, and whether the person fulfilled the obligations of citizens. Census takers often were people of a community or classified individuals as they were known by the community.[13] Definitions of racial categories were often imprecise and ambiguous, especially for "mulatto" and "free person of color." In the British North American colonies and the United States at various times in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, "mulatto" could mean a mixture of African and European, African and Native American, European and Native American, or all three. At the same time, these groups did marry with each other, and there were questions about which culture took precedence, if any. Many Native American tribes were organized around matrilineal lines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melungeon

After reading the two articles of the Melungeon and coincidentally the Dominickers. This will hopefully help others better understand who and what Dominicans have had to deal with in regards to issues of race. We are one of those groups where others want ot pigeon hole us into one specific category when in fact it is really very difficult and extremely impossible to achieve. We are some where stuck in the middle and dont know really which direction to go. All we want is for others to let us be.