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    Default Dominicans "85 % have African ancestry, 9.4 percent Indian and less than 0.08 percent European!

    Make this thread because I am black and want people to know truth. It is wrong that people are not told about who other people really are and to me truth should always be there.

    http://www.theroot.com/views/dominicans-denial?page=0,2

    Climbing back into the car, I realized that my first interview was already under way. I love meeting with scholars and historians, politicians and activists. But there's so much you can learn about a place just by chatting with everyday people, whose understanding of where they live is, of necessity, profound.



    I told my driver about my project, learning about the black experience in Latin America, and I asked him about blackness in the Dominican Republic. He told me amiably that Dominicans don't think of themselves as black. They call themselves indio instead, in a reference to the color of their skin, echoing a myth about the extent of their genetic descent from the island's indigenous inhabitants.

    I knew those tribes were long gone from the island. So I asked him to define indio for me more clearly. I wanted to understand why the term is used to describe a people who, back home in the States, would be described as black. But he struggled to find an explanation that would satisfy me.

    It seems that anyone who isn't white -- whether the person is lightly tan, medium brown or dark black -- self-identifies as indio. It is more about being Dominican, he explained, than being African or indigenous. Who is black? Who is "negro"? Why, the Haitians!


    And the fact is that if we applied the United States' "one-drop rule" to Dominicans and made Indian ancestry that one drop, most Dominicans would, in fact, be descended from Taíno roots, as DNA evidence reveals quite clearly. I sat back, thinking about that, as we neared the hotel.

    The Dominican Republic was born a Spanish colony named Santo Domingo, and as it became a maturing nation, its Eurocentric ruling elites identified it as Caribbean but proudly declared that its heritage was primarily "Spanish, Catholic and white." And this in a country where mitochondrial-DNA evidence reveals, as the anthropologist Juan Rodríguez pointed out to me, that "85 percent of the residents ... have African ancestry, 9.4 percent Indian and less than 0.08 percent European! And on the father's side, through Y-DNA, we now know that only 1 percent of us descend from an Indian male and 36 percent from an African male. Yet the average person here describes their race as indio."

    In other words, this country acknowledges its indigenous past but not its African heritage. But where had its blackness gone, outside of its music and baseball? Where was the cultural mark -- and the cultural recognition -- of the hundreds of thousands of slaves whose labors built this country? I was determined to find out.

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    TROLL. lol Way more than .8% of Dominicans have European blood, id say around 90% do, its just the average is about 50-60%. lol Dominicans on average have more Euro than African blood. Its just they are close to half and half.
    Eurogenes EUtest V2 K15 Oracle-x ------------------ McDonald results
    Spanish_Galicia 43.35% ------------------ Spain - 42.3%
    North_Amerindian 14.83% -----------French - 19.9%
    Spanish_Extremadura 8.70% --------Maya - 16.1%
    Bantu_S.E. 8.62% ------------- Moroccan - 13.9%
    Algerian 5.98% --------------------- Yoruba - 7.8%
    Portuguese 4.68%
    Orcadian 4.15%

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    Hmm I wouldn't be surprise if it was true
    After all, the first black republic it's neighbors with them

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    And this in a country where mitochondrial-DNA evidence reveals, as the anthropologist Juan Rodríguez pointed out to me, that "85 percent of the residents ... have African ancestry, 9.4 percent Indian and less than 0.08 percent European!

    MITOCHONDRIAL is NOT the same as AUTOSOMAL. Do you know anything about DNA and its connections to ancestry?
    Eurogenes EUtest V2 K15 Oracle-x ------------------ McDonald results
    Spanish_Galicia 43.35% ------------------ Spain - 42.3%
    North_Amerindian 14.83% -----------French - 19.9%
    Spanish_Extremadura 8.70% --------Maya - 16.1%
    Bantu_S.E. 8.62% ------------- Moroccan - 13.9%
    Algerian 5.98% --------------------- Yoruba - 7.8%
    Portuguese 4.68%
    Orcadian 4.15%

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    And on the father's side, through Y-DNA, we now know that only 1 percent of us descend from an Indian male and 36 percent from an African male.

    From the same article, meaning the Y DNA is around 63% European... God you know nothing.
    Eurogenes EUtest V2 K15 Oracle-x ------------------ McDonald results
    Spanish_Galicia 43.35% ------------------ Spain - 42.3%
    North_Amerindian 14.83% -----------French - 19.9%
    Spanish_Extremadura 8.70% --------Maya - 16.1%
    Bantu_S.E. 8.62% ------------- Moroccan - 13.9%
    Algerian 5.98% --------------------- Yoruba - 7.8%
    Portuguese 4.68%
    Orcadian 4.15%

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    Quote Originally Posted by Just90 View Post
    Hmm I wouldn't be surprise if it was true
    After all, the first black republic it's neighbors with them
    It is true people lie about their black parts and are cruel to Haitians in that country because they cant stand the connection to them

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    Quote Originally Posted by acevedoricky View Post
    And on the father's side, through Y-DNA, we now know that only 1 percent of us descend from an Indian male and 36 percent from an African male.

    From the same article, meaning the Y DNA is around 63% European... God you know nothing.
    but they ARE STILL AFRICAN you know that and you try to trick people and that is wrong

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    Quote Originally Posted by fror View Post
    It is true people lie about their black parts and are cruel to Haitians in that country because they cant stand the connection to them
    Dude, did you not read my comments. Youre wrong about their ancestry.
    Eurogenes EUtest V2 K15 Oracle-x ------------------ McDonald results
    Spanish_Galicia 43.35% ------------------ Spain - 42.3%
    North_Amerindian 14.83% -----------French - 19.9%
    Spanish_Extremadura 8.70% --------Maya - 16.1%
    Bantu_S.E. 8.62% ------------- Moroccan - 13.9%
    Algerian 5.98% --------------------- Yoruba - 7.8%
    Portuguese 4.68%
    Orcadian 4.15%

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    Quote Originally Posted by fror View Post
    but they ARE STILL AFRICAN you know that and you try to trick people and that is wrong
    YES. They have African blood, but they are not African, they are not European, and they are not Native American, they are ALL of them. And they identify as Dominican first. Black in the US is a social/cultural thing including race. If the average Dominican is more European than African, why should he have to identify as black? Why cant he/she just identify as hispanic?
    Eurogenes EUtest V2 K15 Oracle-x ------------------ McDonald results
    Spanish_Galicia 43.35% ------------------ Spain - 42.3%
    North_Amerindian 14.83% -----------French - 19.9%
    Spanish_Extremadura 8.70% --------Maya - 16.1%
    Bantu_S.E. 8.62% ------------- Moroccan - 13.9%
    Algerian 5.98% --------------------- Yoruba - 7.8%
    Portuguese 4.68%
    Orcadian 4.15%

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    Quote Originally Posted by acevedoricky View Post
    YES. They have African blood, but they are not African, they are not European, and they are not Native American, they are ALL of them. And they identify as Dominican first. Black in the US is a social/cultural thing including race. If the average Dominican is more European than African, why should he have to identify as black? Why cant he/she just identify as hispanic?
    never said they cant id as what they want, just mean to say they are africans too and dominicans pretend they aren't and try to hide this truth on the internet. you should read the article it's good

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