Yes, there is some similar cultural aspects.
I have a question for the Haitians on here:

Since Haiti is part of the Francophone Caribbean, do they have anything in common with Martinique & Guadaloupe? Like for example, is the French spoken the same? I understand Guadaloupe & Martinique also have their own French based creole, is it understandable?
Or are the differences great? They both have had different histories and the relationship ;with France was also different.
Is the commonality/relationship similar to the Spanish Caribbean Cuba/DR/PR?
Here in NYC Haitians are part of the West Indian Day parade, but Haiti is much different than say Jamaica/T &T, Virgin Islands, ect.

Haiti definitely have a latin america flare with a little twist. i don't know martinique, but i know while in haiti its really more in tuned with latin american culture. Haitian cuisine is similar to cuban and dominican food. I definitely was listening to loud as music playing while walking in the blocks of haiti in July. There are trucks called Tap Taps, that has the loudest speakers i can ever imagine. If anyone wants, I can post pictures from my trip to jacmel and other parts of haiti to let dominicans decide for themselves on the differences and similarities. As for Martinique, I know Zouk music is another big genre that haitians are into. And that type of music is from the other francophone countries.

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There'd be more than enough Haitians up to the task of playing you then cibaeno. I'm telling you that dominoes is Haiti's third de facto sport after futbol and cockfighting. The game is full of bluffs and guesses, Haitians play dominoes so passionately it is intimidating. They will slam the dominoes so hard and argue so fiercely you'd think they're out to kill one another but that's just the nature of the game I guess. Once the game is done, they go on chatting as if they were best of friends.

There are two types of French spoken in Haiti: Standard French, and Creole-influenced French where creole words and phrases are thrown into the mix. Martinique and Guadeloupe also have their creole and yes it is understandable to a large degree but Haitian creole and Antillean creole (Martinique and Guadeloupe) aren't entirely exchangeable. Although Martinique and Guadeloupe are Caribbean they have a very strong French culture (because they are overseas territories and their citizens are also French citizens) unlike Haiti which is more 50/50 French & African. Haiti is unique because it just has that Latin American element to it despite its very strong Afro heritage. Believe it or not, Cap-Haitien architecture was influenced by the Spanish. And yes Haitians participate in the West Indian Day parade probably because many Haitian Yorks (as Jabao said) speak English with creole on the backburner and therefore most associate themselves with other West Indians who tend to look like the majority of them. Despite this Haiti is very much different from the English-speaking islands culturally speaking. I would classify Haiti as a Francophone Caribbean country with significant similarity to the Hispanophone Caribbean countries.

The border.

m'frog

Haitian men think they're "smooth" no matter what they look like or how well or not they dress.

Haitian men(maybe women also) love to brag.

Sancocho and Bouillon are imbedded in the cultures.

Believe that Lambi and drink concoctions(don't have a name for Haitian ones), Mamajuana and such give you potency. That's debatable.



I may have more.

Alot of us learned to play dominoes during elementary school. And chase little girls.

We don't have much in common at all! Well somebody said the border.

Greeting everyone from mexico, I am catching up.... very good thread.. can I add the GaGa which is similar to RaRA