Well... About 2 1/2 decades ago I went shopping to Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream Long Long Island and the only "blacks" were us. That's to say we had just arrived from the DR, where we had been laying around the sands at Playa Dorada like bread slices in the toaster. Our tans were nice, but we looked like blacks when compared to the sea of white in that Mall. Not even the security or maintenance personnel were made up of minorities there! Speed up to today and the reverse is truth...
Same thing happened to me in Chicago, Austin and the most memorable one was in Menomonee Falls in Wisconsin, where the local high school looked like a set from Happy Days reruns... I recently visited family in Tecumseh in Ontario, and it was all Deja vu...
As more minorities reach better income levels, now is more common to see other non-whites in those venues. In the DR purchase power goes hand in hand with the racial/income breakdown. The lighter the skin the more odds are, that they historically had been families with an established income source.
Many here forget that the DR was a Colony, not a democracy.
As of late the racial/economic divisions have been shattered somewhat in the DR; more and more people are joining the higher income brackets, from these mixed income-minorities than ever.
AZB in the DR there's not a single Mall/Plaza/shopping center where race plays a role. Not a single one!
Same thing happened to me in Chicago, Austin and the most memorable one was in Menomonee Falls in Wisconsin, where the local high school looked like a set from Happy Days reruns... I recently visited family in Tecumseh in Ontario, and it was all Deja vu...
As more minorities reach better income levels, now is more common to see other non-whites in those venues. In the DR purchase power goes hand in hand with the racial/income breakdown. The lighter the skin the more odds are, that they historically had been families with an established income source.
Many here forget that the DR was a Colony, not a democracy.
As of late the racial/economic divisions have been shattered somewhat in the DR; more and more people are joining the higher income brackets, from these mixed income-minorities than ever.
AZB in the DR there's not a single Mall/Plaza/shopping center where race plays a role. Not a single one!
