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My feeling about Dominicans has always been a negative one. Whenever I'm among them, I feel like I'm an outsider, since we're completely different people. I'm currently working in a factory where the majority are Dominican people. I personally can't stand many of them, and only because jobs are...

My family is from Dom. Rep., and they've mentioned that their ancestors, going several generations back, had emigrated from Spain. This is pretty apparent with the physical appearances that exist in the family as well as the Caribbean-based appearances (West Indian or Black), both origins making...

I've always liked merengue music, and I have lots of vintage songs and newer ones of different groups. Nowadays, however, I don't seem to hear much about merengue bands anymore, since more D.R. people may be into bachata and reggaeton, and so it may seem that the once popular merengue has died...

Hi, I was just wondering about something. My family is Dominican, and both my parents' ancestors came from Spain and intermarried in the D.R. The only problem is that my parents don't know what generation of ancestors came to the D.R., so it could be rather distant. My question is, if my family...

Hi, I've read articles about the problems that exist between the D.R. and Haiti, such as the D.R. performing deportations of illegal haitians and disliking them in general, and something peculiar has occurred to me. If these two countries are experiencing such problems, wouldn't it be a good...

Hi, I have a great interest in foreign languages, thus, I have studied a good number of them. Apart from learning to write well in the Spanish language, I have learned to write in languages related to the family tongue, among them Portuguese, Catalan, Italian, Romanian, and French. As far as...

Hi, I've been seeking an old LP of cuco valoy for a while now. I actually had this LP when I was very young, but somehow it got lost. I'm looking for it because I would really like to know the tracks it contains. A few years back, I searched for CDs of Cuco Valoy, but I didn't find a CD...