Folks,
This isn't intended to be an anti-haitian tpoic or anything. A respondant to the topic on dominicans in nyc recently mentioned something that I find rather interesting. I live in the washington d.c. area, which has thousands of haitian nationals. There's definately more haitians here than dominicans.
Going way back to my high school days I recall that many haitians that I met or knew claimed to be dominicans. At the time, I knew nada about the DR, so I belived them. Now-a-days even many adult haitians that I've met pretended to be something that they were'nt. Some try to drop their accents and claim to be americans. I've met others that told me that they're from france. Or from some other island in the carribean, such as jamaica. The dead-give away is their french surnames! At first I thought that they might opt to do this because haiti is so poverty stricken. Then, I thought to myself, wait a minute, haiti isn't the only poor country in world. For example, we've many salvadoreans in the d.c. area and they're also from a poor country, yet I haven't met any salvadoreans who pretended to be another nationality.
Any thgought on this?
This isn't intended to be an anti-haitian tpoic or anything. A respondant to the topic on dominicans in nyc recently mentioned something that I find rather interesting. I live in the washington d.c. area, which has thousands of haitian nationals. There's definately more haitians here than dominicans.
Going way back to my high school days I recall that many haitians that I met or knew claimed to be dominicans. At the time, I knew nada about the DR, so I belived them. Now-a-days even many adult haitians that I've met pretended to be something that they were'nt. Some try to drop their accents and claim to be americans. I've met others that told me that they're from france. Or from some other island in the carribean, such as jamaica. The dead-give away is their french surnames! At first I thought that they might opt to do this because haiti is so poverty stricken. Then, I thought to myself, wait a minute, haiti isn't the only poor country in world. For example, we've many salvadoreans in the d.c. area and they're also from a poor country, yet I haven't met any salvadoreans who pretended to be another nationality.
Any thgought on this?