Spain celebrates Columbus, descendants defend his legacy

[HAYTIAN PRIDE]

Jose Martinez wrote:

umm. okay no. i'm dominican, and "afroDR" need's to do his homework because our country is made up of 70% European descendent's, 21% Taino Indian and 9% descendent's of African slaves.
Haitian's and Dominican's have not a thing in common. the Haitian black's were brought by the French from Africa. The Dominican black's were brougt by the Spaniard's from Spain; they were called the "African Munk's"
and their is no such thing as an Africanized Spanish. Dominican's speak spanish but some vocab word's are taken from the Taino language; for example, Dominican's got the word "hurricane" from the Taino. a lot of Spanish speaking countries say "que lo que" it's the modern way of saying "que tal" just like some in America say "what's good" instead of "whats up"
maybe you should do your research before you declare a whole nation to be one race. thank's
PERFECT EXAMPLE: i am dominican, have blue eye's & blonde/light brown hair with the taino skin color (caramel? light light brown. i have no African feature's at all.
when the Spaniard's came to DR it was all men, no women, so they mixed with the Indian, very few mixed with the African's for the reason that they were slave's. that's why those who claim to be of European descent in DR today have a brown skin tone, NOT BECAUSE OF THE FEO NEGROS pero because of the taino.
so because your a descendent of a negrito slave, doesnt mean we all are. thanks, bye!

LOL

OOOOOOOPS! I GOT TO GET MY GLASSES FOR THIS ONE.

PEPE, DOMINICAN PRIDE: YOU GUYS GOT ALOT OF WORK TO DO.

[HAYTIAN PRIDE]

Dominican Pride wrote:

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My Gogh, there is really something wrong with our schools.

I WOULD AGREE WITH YOU UNDOUBTEDLY ON THIS ONE.

WHILE YOU AT IT REVISE THE BOOKS TOO.

[Dominican Pride]

Whatever, did you cleaned up your cage yet?

Listen, unlike you I don’t got to wikipedia or copy and paste. All you said about Maximo Gomez was something you saw in a website.

I don’t know what history they teach in Haiti, since there are no schools there, but whatever it is, I couldn’t care more.

Here;…

Brbrbrbrbrbrbrbr :-b

Ps. I will put your comadre Antonio in his place (like always) latter today.

[elafricano]

the wrongs of the past will be avenged by fire
and the whole of Hispaniola with the exception of Santo Domingo was Haiti and then reconquered by dom rebels

[elafricano]

the wrongs of the past will be avenged by fire
and the whole of Hispaniola with the exception of Santo Domingo was Haiti and then reconquered by dom rebels

[elafricano]

Trujillo ordered an attack on the border, and thousands of Haitians were slaughtered while trying to escape. he also was very open to the migration of exile Jews and refugees from the Spaniard civil war in order to whiten the nation, so take thats were you non mixed Dominicans come from

[elafricano]

in fact you should thank the Haitians because along with the British they helped the criollos drive out the French who had captured it after the French revolution.

[elafricano]

after the Haitians helped restore Santa Domingo back to Spanish rule they (Santa Domingos) declared independence and instituted slavery, which is a no-no so they were invaded by the Haitians again.

[elafricano]

to Dominican pride:
were do you get your facts from?
is it not from a book?
and did not a person write that book?

[dotherighthing]

Jose Martinez wrote:

umm. okay no. i'm dominican, and "afroDR" need's to do his homework because our country is made up of 70% European descendent's, 21% Taino Indian and 9% descendent's of African slaves.
Haitian's and Dominican's have not a thing in common. the Haitian black's were brought by the French from Africa. The Dominican black's were brougt by the Spaniard's from Spain; they were called the "African Munk's"
and their is no such thing as an Africanized Spanish. Dominican's speak spanish but some vocab word's are taken from the Taino language; for example, Dominican's got the word "hurricane" from the Taino. a lot of Spanish speaking countries say "que lo que" it's the modern way of saying "que tal" just like some in America say "what's good" instead of "whats up"
maybe you should do your research before you declare a whole nation to be one race. thank's
PERFECT EXAMPLE: i am dominican, have blue eye's & blonde/light brown hair with the taino skin color (caramel? light light brown. i have no African feature's at all.
when the Spaniard's came to DR it was all men, no women, so they mixed with the Indian, very few mixed with the African's for the reason that they were slave's. that's why those who claim to be of European descent in DR today have a brown skin tone, NOT BECAUSE OF THE FEO NEGROS pero because of the taino.
so because your a descendent of a negrito slave, doesnt mean we all are. thanks, bye!

those brainless,clueless, mindless dominican!still singing the same song hein!70%euro 21%taino 9%black,well fyi,the world sees you in a whole diferent optic.get a clue.

[Jim562]

You forgot to thank Spain for their contributions. for the murderers they sent to the Americas and for todays abuse towards foreigners especially from Ecuador they were so kind enough to "open their doors" (cheap labor)to Ecuadorians history repeats itself. They continue the abuse.

[Jim562]

How could you possibly say that D.R is 70% European descendants????? You could say that about Cuba, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and some parts of Brazil but Dominican Republic, why don't you check out the world almanac.
Just because you have blue eyes it doesn't mean that the rest in D.R does too!

[Pepe32]

Jim562 wrote:

You forgot to thank Spain for their contributions. for the murderers they sent to the Americas and for todays abuse towards foreigners especially from Ecuador they were so kind enough to "open their doors" (cheap labor)to Ecuadorians history repeats itself. They continue the abuse.

Jim,your hatred is your weakness....

Ecuadorians are not forced to go to Spain so I would say that they are taking advantage of the opportunities that their own miserable administration of their nation cannot provide them with!

No matter what happens you will never look into the mirror and see your own actions as faulty ,always looking to blame others....but if you hate Spain so much please don't use the SPANISH language and please destroy most of Quito ,Ambato,Cuenca etc. and go back to your "taparabos" please go back to your utopic inca fantasyland .....

You are an ungrateful people who always think someone ows you and that you have the right to atack and insult without response.....

[Pepe32]

BTW Mr Martinez' facts are totally off since DR is mainly mulatto with small amounts of black and white and miniscule "other"

[MDP]

FUÇK Christobal Colon and ALL his descendants. The only important name to North and South Americans alike is AMERIGO FRIGGINIANO VESPUCCI.

[MDP]

And BTW Mr. Pepe32, the DR, as it implies Dominican Republic - is mostly MESTIZO, not Mulatto. I'll leave it up to you to differentiate the two, and I don't care where you live or where you're originally from - facts are facts, so don't misinform the world.

[MDP]

Pepe32 wrote:

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if you hate Spain so much please don't use the SPANISH language

Spain does not have a monopoly on the Spanish language. In fact, better Spanish is spoken in began Bogota, Colombia and La Paz Bolivia, among other places.

You see, while the Industrial Revolution was burgeoning in Europe and all of Spain's surrounding countries traveling inhabitants melding the dialects into something faintly resembling the original tongue, the places I mentioned above remained inaccessible due to their geographic proximity, therefore leaving the dialect of their invaders intact for close to half a millennium.

I don't know, or care to know who hates Spain so much as you say, but that is no reason for them to abandon speaking Spanish. Perhaps a nice fascist country would be good for you?

[Pepe32]

MDP wrote:

And BTW Mr. Pepe32, the DR, as it implies Dominican Republic - is mostly MESTIZO, not Mulatto. I'll leave it up to you to differentiate the two, and I don't care where you live or where you're originally from - facts are facts, so don't misinform the world.

Mestizo implies a mix between the native Americans and Europeans which applies in Mexico Central America and South America but not in the Caribbean.

Mulatto is the mix between Black Africans and Europeans.

Please read before YOU misinform people!

[Pepe32]

MDP wrote:

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Spain does not have a monopoly on the Spanish language. In fact, better Spanish is spoken in began Bogota, Colombia and La Paz Bolivia, among other places.
You see, while the Industrial Revolution was burgeoning in Europe and all of Spain's surrounding countries traveling inhabitants melding the dialects into something faintly resembling the original tongue, the places I mentioned above remained inaccessible due to their geographic proximity, therefore leaving the dialect of their invaders intact for close to half a millennium.
I don't know, or care to know who hates Spain so much as you say, but that is no reason for them to abandon speaking Spanish. Perhaps a nice fascist country would be good for you?

MDP to say better Spanish is spoken en Bogota (the best in Ibero America) than Spain is ludicrous .

If you do not hate Spain then the response was not aimed at you so please read and comprehend before you respond.

If you want me to explain why Latin American Spanish is imperfect I will educate you.

Pepe32

PS I missed the Bolivian part ...that is funny Bolivians speak better Castillian than Castillians.....jajaja

[Pepe32]

MDP wrote:

FUÇK Christobal Colon and ALL his descendants. The only important name to North and South Americans alike is AMERIGO FRIGGINIANO VESPUCCI.

Vespucci never came to this hemisphere so how is he more important the Cristobal Colon?

Boy you are way off base,stop getting your history from comic books....