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Originally Posted by Chip
It isa simple, the first real "Dominicans" were the Tainos just like the first Americans were the native indigenous peoples. Gradually over time they have been assimilated into the imported population of Spanish and Africans, etc, ie the were never wiped out as has been historiucally claimed(see Tainos in the DR thread for more info, incl DNA results).
At this point a Dominican for the most part is tri-racial entity with all of the appurtant cultural and linguisitc influences as well.
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I agree with most of what you said accept the whole "first Dominican" thing. Tainos were never Dominicans. They never knew the concept of nationalism and boundaries and territories as we know them. Dominican in a sense as we know the DR today, which encompasses their land, but the concept of Dominicaness didn't exist until 1844.
Mr. Lu