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Originally Posted by Chip
Hey guys a word of advice, this is a "western" oriented forum and just because you guys vehemently disagree about the Tainos (a la "porque no") has nothing to do with the facts.
You need to understand this isn't something up to conjecture, or where one's "credentials" are enough to convince people (such as is all to common here in the DR) we are talking about cold hard fact.s There is no doubt that pure blooded Tainos existed until the late 1800's in quisqueya.
Again, phrases like "just because" and like I hear much too often here "porque no" don't(no vale) fly here, sorry but true.
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Who's left anything up to conjecture? Who has relied on the "just because" argument? Who has used credentials as a way to argue something? No one is arguing that Tainos never existed or that they played a role in DR culture etc. The argument has shifted to the "percentage" of Tainos as part of the overall makeup, which I am arguing, though existent, was minimal at most. What I have continually argued is that intermixing between Dominican/Spanish/African
was more the norm and in larger numbers than was mixing with Tainos, because there were "no" Tainos. (Notice the quotations around NO)
As for the "pure blooded" Tainos into the 1800's I'd like to see where you got that from? i.e. your reference. Can you send me the link? Not that I don't trust your argument, I just like to see where you read it so I can continue reading on it. It helps me understand where you come from and helps me build a better argument.
And P.S., no Wiki references please. Thanks.
Mr. Lu