My husband is Dominican but is always mistaken for light skinned black by blacks...They always say to him "Let me find you a nice black girl" since I am white.... and he is thought of as something foreign by Mexicans! Since he speaks spanish and I live near Mexico people assume he is Mexican...but I have had many people ask me "Does he speak Mexican"? LOL... I do not think Dominicans are mistreated in the US except in NY where they are known for drugs etc...My husband lived there for 10 years and told me the Puerto Ricans and Dominicans do not like each other more so than the whites disliking Dominicans. This subject can go in circles for years it is always opinions against opinion I think... Pam