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Originally Posted by Mr. Lu
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
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I am using the term "Dominican" in the same way "American" is used to describe the first inhabitants of what is now the Americas.
By the way, I think it can be proven that the term Dominican was used long before 1844, as this a term rooted in "Santo Domingo", the name of the colony for many centuries.