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Originally Posted by GilbertArenas
Careful with calling a Dominican black. LOL.
This reminds me of taking the SATs in Santo Domingo when I was a kid. Every single US standardized test we took where we had to fill in race there was a 10-15 minute fight where Dominicans explained to the teachers why they were white, and not black or hispanic.
The ruling by the teacher was as follows (just to shut people up), if you think you're white and have a red passport (Dominican passport), sorry you're hispanic. If you think you're white and have a blue passport (American passport) feel free to put white. If you are dark skinned and don't think you're black put hispanic.
Race is very tricky with Dominicans, just don't debate it......there's no point.
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Very good point!!!! My father, being of Irish background never accepted the fact that his wife and mother to his children was hispanic. LOL..we were raised as little white kids! Hey, I am damn proud of my Irish blood too. But I get a bit razed when some people of dark skin refer to me as a 'cracker'. That happened a few times in the Dominican Republic and I cussed them out in Spanish, they sort of got confused. Chaulk it up to their ignorance by judging a book by it's cover :-)