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Nasjira :
Also toooooo many Dominican women can birth Black dominicans and white Dominicans. My grandma is a black Dominican and her kids look like this 🧑🏽👩🏿👩🏻🦱🧑🏽🦱, only three of her kids are black by phenotype. All have a black parent but not all of them are black. This is also why Dominicans will say i have black in me or go the biracial route bc even if you have a black parent you can be born white lol
2025-07-31 14:31:23
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sarahkelly1763 :
Thanks for this! I grew up in the US Deep South and have learned SO much in the past few weeks! Like, I knew the racial dynamics in Latin America were different than here but I had honestly never thought about what it meant for Latin Americans living in the US and how they might identify
2025-08-01 18:01:45
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Tone Tone :
This is such a great take! Dominican culture is nuanced as any other culture. Every Dominican is pretty aware that they are mixed unless they know they are not mixed. I grew up with all types of Dominicans with different admixtures (Lebanese, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, French,etc) this was really not a shock. For some of us, our families have been living in the same regions and areas since the establishment of the settlement. Now this all being said, DR has a slew of issues like any other country but we are proud of our heritage. Respectfully, no one in my circle friends would ever refer to themselves as Afro-Latino. We are Dominican and we fought valiantly to remain independently Dominican.
2025-07-31 13:24:38
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Kt123 :
I agree. For years I’ve noticed a big source of these problems: Some people use black to denote skin tone & an underlying diasporic culture, while others use it to specifically represent African American culture.
2025-07-30 20:21:41
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L!SS🌸 :
Omg you explained it so well!
2025-08-01 04:35:28
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Rochelly :
EXACTLY, thank you!
2025-08-01 16:54:01
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luckyman :
as a black person I get your point 👍
2025-07-31 13:23:37
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chaleDel17 :
It’s The Greatest explanation
2025-07-31 14:48:59
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Platano :
Us Dominicans are mixed and claim mixed can’t name a country more proud to be of their nationality than a Dominican it’s in our culture language blood food we are mixed and a lot of people are upset that we apréciate our race
2025-07-31 05:53:28
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Tik Toker :
Accurate!
2025-07-31 03:19:07
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KM1 :
Thank you!! I’m a Black Dominican and not everyone here is Black. It’s such a dangerous generalization. It’d be like saying everyone in America is Black. It’s just plain incorrect. People don’t know anything about GLOBAL Black history and the diaspora but they make sweeping generalizations anyway and it’s not good. Americans want people in the diaspora to identify their race in the exact same way they do in the US and that’s not how it works. In the DR, we have Black, white and mixed people JUST like in the US but we are not classified the same way. Are there racist people and colorism in DR? YES. That’s a problem in EVERY country.
2025-07-31 01:11:52
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👩🏽💻 :
If black people have to be labeled black because of the one drop rule, then obviously theyre going to expect other people who have African blood to be classified as black.
2025-07-31 02:59:49
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Ericka Garcia :
It’s that here in the USA they are so obsessed with race like be for real they only have a problem with Dominican like they don’t tell Brazilian that they are black the have the most African decent and other Latin America too. Like we do acknowledge as Dominican that with come from African decent and other races and with have taínos in our blood but they still so obsessed with Dominican with I’m not black I’m just Dominican. Like we as Latino we don’t rep our race or ethnic we rep proudly and loud our nationality… it’s crazy how we have to explain ourselves.
2025-07-31 03:52:31
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anablanc661 :
👏🏽👏🏽
2025-07-31 18:43:48
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Anacaona-Doro :
❗️❗️❗️👏🏼
2025-07-31 13:00:29
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bernyb_ :
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
2025-07-31 04:52:10
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Lola :
To add to you statement which I agree with. DR is a classist society (reminisce of our colonizers). So we have Albino, Jabao, Trigueño, Mulato, Indio, Moreno, Negro and Prieto. I see it as a way of everyone having their own racial identity. But it was created to signify the proximity to whiteness and separation. Today, this same system is used all over Latin America and Latinos take pride in their racial make up. So it’s no longer an insult but more of pride to specify your racial make up. Sadly in the states we haven’t reached the point of explaining this because of the attacks and ignorance surrounding the topic. But we know our racial indentity. Like TRUST we have our own white elites and racism we face on the island.
2025-07-31 18:21:48
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hoe4yves :
A big factor that helps into this is that a black person in DR wouldn’t experience racism the same way someone in the US would. All the N word thingy and racial profiling does not happen. In the US a black and white person have totally different cultures, even the way they speak or dress. In DR this does not happen since we treat each other as equal. But we are part black, people just don’t understand the concept of “race” the same way here.
2025-07-31 07:04:08
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Cierra :
Anyone who says all dominicans are Black should come to my old school and see it was literally all white dominicans🤦♀️
2025-07-31 21:47:11
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Larimar✨| Digital Diary :
Facts! It’s very hard for Americans to understand because it’s a different racial system here with different oppression tactics. Also it’s more “self hate” then racism because black people cant be racist, that would imply systematic power.
2025-07-31 14:03:15
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davidmartinez1596 :
What are you talking about, we are racist, when I was little kid I was tormented by my own family for being the darkest one, every woman that I had all of them told me that “ I always said that I never will have a black boyfriend” even the black girls said the same thing.
2025-07-31 23:43:13
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