No, but she implies her shock about one family using different names to define their differing skin tones, which for one dropper is an idiotic thing, cuz' for them, the families that do so should name themselves black and be done with it. She'll never understand that the color gradations of the DR are only descriptive terms and don't imply the belonging to a social class, as it is the case in the US.

Well first of all, you know how many Dominican came to the U.S. to build a better life and ended up. Still broke. Sad!
I don’t know what Dominicans in D.R. think of me. I am just some dude that came on a plane to see them from the cold empire up north.
Dominicans in D.R. already know there really isn’t anything in the U.S.
You might make more money in the U.S. but you live better in DR.

Exiles;

It’s sad that Dominicans must leave their homeland for what ever reason, economical, political and or medical.
Poor Dominican that had to leave do to the Trujillo regime, some of those brave souls came back time and time again to rid us of him. “CAYO CONFITIS, 14 de Junio”




This is very much true, is it the same in Cuba?
I know Cuban Americans are very racist, Very!!!!!

I also have been called racist, for not wanting to date or having anything to do with a certain Morena. But it had more to do with other factors then just her skin color.

Because "race" as it's seen here on the DR is just a physical descriptor and not a social class like it is in the US, where, if you're black, you're expected to behave according to some parameters and not to trespass them.

Just dont come back chill we got enough whiners and complainers as it is and you would not be able to hack it here anyway

Sorry the thread title ? when was it about race again ? I am out of here.

Reality is not that clear cut as you seem to imply, mr. troll. And yes, I have seen white dominican campesinos living in the most miserable of shacks and working their conucos on the Cordillera Central. Also, if you cared to take a look at the slums of Santo Domingo and Santiago, you'll find that there are plenty of mixed people (in fact, the majority of them) which are among the poorest of the poor.

Don't close the door, I'll be out of here too.

I am much more shocked you replied to this fool than that fool starting a thread about the DR.

The loser has been banned more times than all the homers hit by Hank Aaron.

When the political machine in place intentionally breaks the law and refuses to offer a reasonable education to all, you get what we have now, Mass Ignorance, Crime and Corruption. The general population has no faith in the system and see's wholesale corruption from Lawyers, Polititions, Millitary, and the national Police. Everyone that should be honest is not. Everyone that should display honor and leadership doe's not. There is NO GOOD EXAMPLE.

That my friend, is why there are millions of Dominicans living in other countries.

This sounds all too familiar. Perhaps another question would be to ask those Non-Dominicans "what does Dominican or Dominican American represent. Dominicans too often are so caught up in nationalistic pride that they fail to see themselves for who they really are and equally important how others view them.

Too often Dominicans fail to accept and acknowledge the truth behind what Dominicans represent albeit for political correctness hipocracy or convenience. Thus our sphere becomes untouchable and indelible from foreign criticism. I am one not to care about PC however there is within the Dominican social fabric a major idiosyncratic behavior that blurs the lines between hipocracy PC and diplomacy often disguised in double entendre (which could probably be traced to Trujillo era) that foster ambiguity and confusion. Being Dominican represents to me a failed democracy consisting a simple generous people who have been lied abused and fooled as well as conditioned through the years to accept conformity and complacency as a substitute for motivation in excellence. A people who have no faith and courage left except to survive at whatever cost.