Wow
What a healthy debate and I was no where in site! LOL
Thank you one and all for not considering me a blogster! Very funny indeed!
I would like to say that as far as my Estevezcronos webpage is concerned, yes it is self serving, just as the opposite argument on Taino continuities, survival and revivals are as well. For me it boiled down to constantly reading arguments on Taino extinction while at the same time reading contradictory statements in the very same history books that claim extinction. For example one reads that the Taino people became extinct and left only a few of their words and a few customs. So when we ask why do we have anything left from these people at all? The simple answer is Spanish retention of some Taino words and customs, and definitive proof of their early demise.? But upon closer inspection we find that in the Caribbean there are 3200 attested Taino words (place names, the names of fruits, vegetables, flora and fauna, etc). The plethora of Taino customs from Casabe bread to Chola bread from Guayiga to chen-chen from maize…
I suppose more Spanish retention?
All of the historical sources on my webpage can be verified. The only way I could fake what I have on there is to perhaps travel back in time and get all these people to help me pull a fast one in the future! As for the new scholars, yes there are many on there too. We are living in an age where multi-disciplinary sources are used to get a clearer picture, something that was not readily available just a few decades ago.
In any event as Chip mentioned mtDNA has already proven that there is a high level of Taino genetic survival in the DR. We could blot out the sun with a finger tip if we want to, but the facts are facts.
Loved your quote Ricardo900! Here is one
"Eppur si muove" - And yet it turns
Legend has it that the Italian mathematician, physicist and philosopher Galileo Galilei muttered this phrase after being forced to recant in 1633, before the Inquisition, his belief that the Earth moved around the Sun.
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