In Cuba, the hillbilly and the farmer or rural peasant is called guaj?ro. In Puerto Rico he is called j?baro. What are they called in the Dominican Republic?
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Antillano,
If I understand your question correctly then it's j?baro as well. J?baro means someone from the countryside or an equivalent americanismo is campesino.
LDG.
If I understand your question correctly then it's j?baro as well. J?baro means someone from the countryside or an equivalent americanismo is campesino.
LDG.
Wrong, wrong and wrong
At least to my understanding of the term, in the Dominican Republic the usage would be: serranos.
The "j?baro" , made famous by the song in Puerto Rico, and the "guajiro" are both closely associated with the hills of their respective countries. Also included in the social shadings of the term are all of the stereotypes of the "good ol' hillbillies" of the Appalachias or the Ozarks: interfamily marriages, isolationism, wearyness of "ferriners" and so forth.
In the DR and PR, it has been postulated that the lighter skins, small statures and relative backwardness of the "j?baros", but not the "serranos", comes from the fact that when large numbers of blacks from Africa were brought into Puerto Rico, a large number of the "Criollo" population took to the hills, how true or not this is, I just don't know.
In the case of the Dominican Republic, the phenomenon is relatively new, dating to the latter part of the 19th century when major forestry harvesting began and thousands went to the mountains looking for work. However, there were thousands more available workers than there were jobs and so many began to scratch out a living in the hills, using slansh and burn agriculture and surviving off the land. They became isolated from the rest of the country until well into the mid 20th century. So much so, in fact, that one early Peace Corps team, well off the beaten path, was greeted with questions about the American Occupation that had ended back in 1924!
Please note that many of the people in areas like San Jos? de las Matas, El Rubio, Monci?n, Juncalito, San Jos? de Ocoa, Jarabacoa, or J?nico, tend to fit the pattern.
Cordially,
HB
At least to my understanding of the term, in the Dominican Republic the usage would be: serranos.
The "j?baro" , made famous by the song in Puerto Rico, and the "guajiro" are both closely associated with the hills of their respective countries. Also included in the social shadings of the term are all of the stereotypes of the "good ol' hillbillies" of the Appalachias or the Ozarks: interfamily marriages, isolationism, wearyness of "ferriners" and so forth.
In the DR and PR, it has been postulated that the lighter skins, small statures and relative backwardness of the "j?baros", but not the "serranos", comes from the fact that when large numbers of blacks from Africa were brought into Puerto Rico, a large number of the "Criollo" population took to the hills, how true or not this is, I just don't know.
In the case of the Dominican Republic, the phenomenon is relatively new, dating to the latter part of the 19th century when major forestry harvesting began and thousands went to the mountains looking for work. However, there were thousands more available workers than there were jobs and so many began to scratch out a living in the hills, using slansh and burn agriculture and surviving off the land. They became isolated from the rest of the country until well into the mid 20th century. So much so, in fact, that one early Peace Corps team, well off the beaten path, was greeted with questions about the American Occupation that had ended back in 1924!
Please note that many of the people in areas like San Jos? de las Matas, El Rubio, Monci?n, Juncalito, San Jos? de Ocoa, Jarabacoa, or J?nico, tend to fit the pattern.
Cordially,
HB
depends
If im correct, the correct name for anyone who lives off his or her land is called a CAMPESINO / CAMPESINA
Not because they live in the region for example if you live in the northwest... you would be called a cibae?o but if you live in the south west you are a sure?o. If you live in the east your concidered ugly like To?o Rosario. Just kidding.
If im correct, the correct name for anyone who lives off his or her land is called a CAMPESINO / CAMPESINA
Not because they live in the region for example if you live in the northwest... you would be called a cibae?o but if you live in the south west you are a sure?o. If you live in the east your concidered ugly like To?o Rosario. Just kidding.
Palestinos
Further expanding on the original post, in Cuba they call guajiros or campo people who have migrated to the big city Havana: PALESTINOS, because of their campo way of speaking, walking, dressing, etc.
Do dominicans have a similar word for people from the campo that moved to the capital?
Bartolomeo
Further expanding on the original post, in Cuba they call guajiros or campo people who have migrated to the big city Havana: PALESTINOS, because of their campo way of speaking, walking, dressing, etc.
Do dominicans have a similar word for people from the campo that moved to the capital?
Bartolomeo
Bartolomeo67 said:
Correction: In Cuba they call palestinos- a very recent term as it is used there- only those people from the Oriente region of Cuba who have migrated to Havana and other parts of Cuba. They can be from the cities or the countryside. Peasants are always called guajiros. This new term they use in Cuba to refer to those who leave the easternmost region of Cuba is considered pejorative. Guajiros from Pinar del Rio who move to Havana are not called palestinos. Although people from this province are also the "victim" of countless jokes.
And yes, they do stereotype the so called palestinos from Oriente and make jokes about the way they speak and everything else they do. They make up a large part of Havana's police force.
Hillbilly said:
Although, there is a song called El J?barito by Rafael Hern?ndez, the term is thought to originated in the 1800's by the book El G?baro, by Manuel Alonso.
It is said, that when the slaves were brought to the island to replace the nearly extinct native Ta?no population, that they, the Ta?nos, went to live in the hills and mixed with the poor, European settlers that came afterwards. Their descendents are called J?baros, which is used to describe anyone of the low classes from the countryside. Thanks for the definition of the serranos, which I find to be very interesting.
In DR, the term Campesino is use to describe someone from the country. This word is also use to describe someone who is ignorant and naive. There is a saying in the DR that goes 'fuera de la capital, es monte y culebra' 'Anything outside the capital, is wood and snake'