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Originally Posted by NALs
For certain that's a plausible possibility, but it's not clear if the two are connected or not.
For that reason, any of the two possibilities (it's connected or it's not connected) are both very real at this moment in time. Perhaps, tomorrow or some other time this confusion is resolved.
Until then, nobody here really knows other than maybe it is or maybe its not connected.
-NALs
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exactly, but lookey here, ...
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Originally Posted by
Chirimoya 
Mountain out of molehill.
SP's batey-dwelling parents were probably illiterate, so the French "Pierre" became the Kreyol "Pié".
The young girl used a more Spanish-sounding first name like so many immigrants (or children of immigrants) in every country who want to fit in, and as she was more educated than her parents, decides to spell her last name the correct French way - Pierre.
As a campaigner for the rights of Dominico-Haitians, she has nothing to hide - neither the fact that her parents were Haitian (duh) or even the fact they were illegal, because she advocates granting DR nationality to children of undocumented/illegal immigrants anyway.
It's a feeble attempt to discredit her, which will have no effect. People who don't agree with her will continue to fume, and people who share her opinion or don't care either way will think "so what?".
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Originally Posted by NALs
That could certainly be the case. Of course, if it's simply a case of illiterate parents and their educated daughter which brought about this discrepancy in her name, why would this escalate to threats?  |
maybe you should follow your own advice.