Haitians have contributed way too much...
for us to deny it. They have helped us in the sugarcane cutting and much of manual labor. This is very blatant. DR and Haiti share an island and as a result there will be much mixing. Since we are slightly better off, they immigrate over. Yes, we pay them so it is a business. But we abuse them. We pay them less than the avg. Dominican. There is a lot of mixing of the cultures. Most Dominicans tend to look down on these poor souls, so they deny any Haitian heritage in their blood. And use them as scapegoats for those Dominicans who are'nt well behaved citizens. Maybe this is do to ignorance and plain hatred.
If only they knew that here in the states the same goes on frequently with the L. Americans.
This is the first time I see that there is a lot of thier artwork in DR. I am curious to where they can be found particulary in STI.
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