I just don't think the majority of Dominicans are interested in this topic. There are various reasons why this is the case but I think rather than trying to dissect it as there was something the matter with it, I think we can learn a lot from it.
In others words the whole "heritage" issue as seen in the US is a product of a society opposed to to racial integration(hence one does not loose one's identity, bla bla ad nauseum) and is not something to be admired or copied.
This is not to say that knowing one's heritage is a bad thing - but the moment one starts defining one's worth because they are "Scots-Irish with a smidge of German" or from "Central Africa" imo they have turned history into a tool of separation, exclusion and ultimately racism.
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