Dominicans from the Eastern Provinces

[Daven]

[Daven]

Most look heavily Black-admixed, though still IMO slightly more Euro-shifted and lighter on average than e.g. Afro-Americans. A few of the more Caucasoid-leaning types in these photos might pass as Gulf Arabs or South Asians.

How SSA do these region look to you on average?

[Tooting Carmen]

How SSA do these region look to you on average?

40-60% maybe?

[Daven]

40-60% maybe?

It came out around 56% SSA in the NatGeo DNA study like I mentioned. So you were very close haha

Before the sugarcane industry this region was less negroid. Some of the older towns were founded by Canarians so I imagine they left a genetic impact there.

La Romana is a new city so most folks from there are from the provinces nearby like La Altagracia, Seybo and Hato Mayor where there was less cocolo influenced. But a lot are also from surrounding plantation towns (bateys) and places where there were a lot of Anglo-caribbeans. San Pedro de Macoris was at some point a really diverse and prosperous city.

[Daven]

Dominican icon Oscar de Renta in his finca in countryside La Romana (video is from 1991).

Oscar lived in this province until the 90s when he moved to Punta Cana, La Altagracia. He was the one who first promoted the country worldwide as a tourist spot and specifically the Punta Cana area.

I want to correct myself and say that this video was not shot in La Romana but in countryside Bayaguana, Monte Plata which is still part of the East. The one in red:

[Daven]

The East encircled in RED:

[Daven]

The East encircled in RED:

[axel.aleman]

Muy interesante el Este dominicano. Más que el suroeste o el sur cercano

[axel.aleman]

Este es uno de los vídeos más graciosos de destino al cual veo como un buen ejemplo de grifo más que de negro puro

[Daven]

Pienso que ese negro del video se ve como de 80% de SSA por lo menos.

Los grifos suelen tener toques de caucasoide como la nariz mas fina, aveces pelo medio rizado, no tan oscuros. Tambien la forma craneal suele estar modificada. Aunque lo de nariz "fina" y lo craneal es subjetivo porque hay negros puros que la tienen pero mas o menos vas agarrando la idea de por donde voy. Sammy Sosa para mi antes de usar su crema era un buen ejemplo de grifo dominicano. Arlenis Sosa es otro buen ejemplo.