Most people on this thread are a bunch of ignorants!
Assuming that Dominicans are black is wrong.
Sure, it may appear to be that way, but apperances can and are deceiving.
Dominicans for the most part are mixed. End of story.
Whether you want to believe that or not, that is not important because a quick DNA testing on a representative sample of the DR population would certainly reveal that!
Keep in mind, the average age today in the DR is 21. That means that most of the Dominicans roaming today came out of relationships and wedlock not so long ago. The further back in time you go, the more fixed the races become with pure whites and pure blacks. As more into the present we come, the more MIXED it gets.
There is a distinct physical difference between Dominicans from the Eastern part of the country and those from the Cibao. Its also no coincidence that in the eastern part of the island blacks outnumbered whites in the vast ranches and that in the Cibao is where the highest concentration of whites and Indians were on the island, but blacks being relatively in small numbers compared to the other two. As such, it makes perfect sense why Cibae?os are lighter skin color (fromt their mixed black and white ancestor), they have high cheek bones and many are born with "Asian" eyes (from their Indian ancestors), and many have easier hair to comb.
Contrast to those from the eastern part of the country who are black in skin color and physical features with a few whites and a few blacks with blue eyes (an eye with no pigment looks blue which means that its an eye "designed" for places like Sweden where the sun is not intense, which means they have some white blood in them) or whites with kinky hair (indicative of african features in them).
Also keep in mind that 60% of Dominicans live in the Cibao and only 10% of Dominicans live in the east! That means that more Dominicans are mixed than black. Of course, if you only visit the eastern part of the country, you would think most Dominicans are black because you have no idea that the people you are looking at in the eastern part of the country only make up 10% of the population. Those that visit the Cibao see a "different" type of Dominican, the lighter skin colored Dominican who predominate in the Cibao Valley, the region that is home to 60% of the national population.
Also keep in mind that there are many Haitians walking within the population, so many blacks that you might see might be Haitians whom you assume as Dominican, but are not!
It doesn't matter what Americans in particular think about Dominicans skin color, whether most are black or white. If things in the US keep going as they are (whites are in decline, blacks and Hispanics immigrants are exponentially growing at alarming rate), not only is the US going to become predominantly black or Hispanic (most Hispanic being Indians from Mexico in the US), but the US will also become increasingly impoverished.
The US is currently looking at a future similar to the DR's. The masses will evolve from the high birth rates among the current minorities and poor who in the future will compose the majority of the US, but the money will remain in the ever shrinking whites.
When that time comes, this discussion will appear once again, but not in the DR, instead it will be in the US.
