What race is the Dominican?

 Are Dominicans Really Confused About Their Race?

Hello, how are you? I am a 23 year old Dominican girl and my experience traveling to different states of North America gave me to understand that sometimes the news and social networks can be a bit exaggerated.

What race is the Dominican?

 I experienced this doubt for the first time in myself, when I was working in the hotel sector in the Dominican Republic, seeing so many tourists from different parts of the world, I noticed that African-Americans treated me in a particular way, a woman told me you look black with light skin! That caused me a confusion. I mentally associated Haiti immediately and then I thought: Afro-American told me since then my question in question, after analyzing many questions I realized that they saw me because of my skin color.

After understanding that aspect, a few months later a couple was surprised by my English and we began to have a conversation, we talked about whether I was a local and from all the states I had visited, New York, New Jersey, Boston, Massachusetts, Houston Texas and St. Louis Missouri, then we talk about why Dominicans don't claim to be black? And then I explained to him that we don't see people because of their skin color, and I told him that the Dominican is a mixture of Africa, Spain and a Taino aborigine who has been a Caribbean Native American and that they had taught us that since we were little. He told me if it is true as Americans we have the rule that if you have something in black then you are black and that was invented by whites to separate us from each other, and since then I knew that such a rule existed.

My memories about my education in my growth vary from the mixture, nationality, patriotism and Dominican pride, they told me you have black behind your ear and it is because of its small size because of the large size of the lips because of the mulatto color of the skin, although this may vary, due to your hair curled by the curvy body of women among other characteristics. However, we are washed light skinned, some have fine noses and straight hair, others are white with honey-blue green eyes, endless migrations from eastern countries and during World War II the Dominicans welcomed the Jews fleeing from Europe. Therefore we are very diverse of many colors of many characteristics we could look from any country and no one would notice. Perhaps this is the reason why we cannot be classified into a single race or perhaps two because these do not exist, we are multicolored and this goes back in history in which slaves and Spaniards began to mix, and Creoles were born. However, we can recognize others by their culture in the first instance by the depth of their color that is; because they have not been mixed with any other color and their biophysical appearance that determines the region from that person.

In the end we are all human beings and we are rational people and it does not really matter the color of our skin, if we are all cousins ​​and we live on the same planet being the same species, the only difference is how we develop in places where our bodies had to adapt to geographic space and that is why we have different physical characteristics.