Is it true Dominicans burned & destroyed their history books and tried to rewrite where they came from?
During Trujillo's dictatorship, many history books were destroyed by dumping them in the landfills by the truck load. Those were the history books used in Public school's classrooms in the DR at the time. Trujillo ordered then secretary of Education "Balaguer" the need to correct many "errors" as he affirmed them to exist in those books.
Dominicans didn't burn history books, but the trujillista machinery did...
As a matter of fact most books were replaced with a newer edition prepare under the close scrutiny of the Dictator... Many books had his portrait pasted in the last or front initial page...
Trujillo didn't want Dominican heritage to be identified with that of the Haitian blood, therefore of African ancestry in its majority.
I read history that after Colombus arrived searching for gold Spain killed off all the Indians in the 16th century & begin bringing slave from Africa to DR Now a majority African-Dominican in the country.
When Colon arrived in Hispaniola the Taino population was about 2 to 3 million. Once the Aborigines were exposed to the pathogens brought over from Europe by the conquistadores, the immune system of the Tainos wasn't prepared for the killers. The local population, which was a very docile and of small frame, didn't provide the work the Europeans had experienced with Africans. The French and Spaniards introduced African slave to the island for this issue. The population of Tainos, greatly reduced by the pathogens and killing sprees of the conquistador es was moved to smaller chores;those that survived.
The Tainos serving chores closer to the homes of the colonists, did become more and more integrated with them via sexual relations and the such.
The slaves that were brought over to the eastern side of the island, left when the uprising from the slaves on the western side became successful and made their way to the easter side. Some remained in the eastern side but most left to the darker held side of the island for good.
Dominicans are more a result of the mix of Tainos and Whites than Whites with Africans. The characteristics of the African traits are easy to spot as well as the easy to spot Taino traits in Dominicans as well. In Haiti most whites intermixed with Tainos than Africans, as Tainos were seen as less "wild" than Africans. That's the biggest reason why in Haiti today, color of the skin and facial characteristics play a defining role in social/racial interaction of classes.
Dominicans are intensively mixed with races from all over the world, yet it's Taino and white the biggest and stronger of all when samplings are taken to trace racial heritage among them. It wasn't until after 1965 when large masses of Haitians made their way into border towns (then scantly populated by Dominicans, many of long Spaniard lineage) of the DR, where they did the logical thing and intermarriages with Dominicans became quite frequent...
Any person alive after 1940 can tell from an eyewitness account that towns and major cities like Santiago and satellite charming little "Campitos" where predominantly of white and very Indian like shades as the darkest of complexions. The campesinos from the farms where hard labor was the daily bread, many did become mixed with Haitians, which were the #1 laborers of the Fields there...
Still many campitos in the hard to reach places are seldom darker than Nicole Kidman. (Juancalito, Loma prieta, los Ranchos, etc...). Mainly b/c they were never open to Haitian migration for the fields.
Also I read in a history book most Dominicans judge themselves by skin color, a lighter shade they like to call themselves Indian.
Thats b/c most of the lightest shaded skin toned Dominicans of mixed heritage are indeed of Whites with Taino/Mestizo ancestry and NOT White/African.
The Mestizo population was much higher in post pure Taino concentration in the eastern side of the island.
I just want to know if any of this is true by Dominicans abroad & Dominicans on the island.
From a Dominican abroad and in the island as well...
Also are Christopher Colombus bones still on the island?
Colon's bone are positively in the DR, as the inscriptions on the box his bones were later discovered provided. Somebody made sure to send other bones to Spain....
Are Dominicans living abroad & at home ashame of their heritage as Afro-Dominicans?
I guess some are (to what extend of the ones ignorant to having at least some traits of African heritage in their blood, I don't know), but saying that Dominicans of any other shade than Nicole Kidman's pure white, is simply just as ignorant of the huge and much greater % of Dominicans of actual Taino/White/Mestizo heritage as well.
Just going around pointing toward non-whites of Dominican nationality and calling their posture on the African heritage "ignorant", serves the voice behind such affirmations as no lesser ignorant on the prevalence of Taino blood in Dominicans as well with little to NONE African ancestry/blood in their family's entire line...