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I´ll say this...some Puerto Ricans on the island would get pretty heated if you told them they were like Dominicans; those same people might be ok with you saying they are like Cubans.
Answers will vary, however. A lot of barriers get broken down in places like New York, where said peoples start to notice their similarities instead of harping on their differences as a means of distancing themselves from each other.
I´ll say this...some Puerto Ricans on the island would get pretty heated if you told them they were like Dominicans; those same people might be ok with you saying they are like Cubans.
Answers will vary, however. A lot of barriers get broken down in places like New York, where said peoples start to notice their similarities instead of harping on their differences as a means of distancing themselves from each other.
Those people have always existed and they are based mostly on a stereotype that many Dominicans have in PR. The stereotype is true of the average Dominican that moves to PR. Its also made worst when most Dominicans that don’t fit the stereotype are often not seen as Dominicans and they themselves except in private settings would say they are Dominicans or of Dominican origin.
But once PRs visit the DR and see the similarities, not only do most end up liking the DR, but they visit the DR most often and some move to the DR. The owner of San Juan Shopping Center and the gated community behind it in Bávaro is PRs. The owner of La Barrica, the main one is on ave Lincoln but they have several restaurants/bars through out Santo Domingo, is a PRs that originally didn’t want to visit the DR and now he moved. The owner of Corominas Clinic in Santiago are originally of PR. Caribbean Cinemas has second most chain all over the DR and they built Downtown Center. The owner spends equal time in San Juan and Santo Domingo. The colonial family that once moved from DR to PR, in last few years moved back to DR after spending hundreds of years in PR. Amadita Laboratorios was originally established by a Puerto Rican family. Half of Joaquin Balaguer and half of Juan Bosch, two historic men in Dominican politics and literature, were of PR origin. Many PRs go to Dominican universities. Part of Juan Ponce de Leon’s descendants live in the DR. It goes on and on.
Even the port Don Diego, where Americas Ferry arrive from San Juan and Mayagüez every week to Santo Domingo, was designed by a Puerto Rican architect. Many buildings all over the DR was designed by Puerto Ricans.
Sometimes I see flocks of Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Venezuelans, etc, in Cuba and they stand out as extremely different, notwithstanding the race. You can spot them a mile away. Cubans have a very limited genetic profile, a few tribes in Africa, a few valleys in Spain so there's a family look.
Sometimes I see flocks of Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Venezuelans, etc, in Cuba and they stand out as extremely different, notwithstanding the race. You can spot them a mile away. Cubans have a very limited genetic profile, a few tribes in Africa, a few valleys in Spain so there's a family look.
They are mostly the same as Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, regardless which origin is looked at genetically. The only thing that changes are the percentages.
Also, first historian of Cuba was born and raised in Santiago, Dom Rep in 1600s.
In late 1700s and early 1800s plenty of Dominicans moved to Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela (most to Maracaibo and Caracas) running away from Haitian invasions (there were 8 in total). In western PR there are places still with Dominican names (Higuey neighborhood in Arecibo is a good example) and many families are originally from DR, including PR’s first piano player and owner. All over Cuba, but especially in Camagüey (in those times it was called Puerto PrÃncipe) received the Dominicans (including the Real Audiencia de Santo Domingo, the first of the Americas). Many leading Dominican families, like Del Monte, became among leading families in Havana. Many others, like Pichardo in Camagüey, have connections to their Dominican family too.
Many of Cuba’s independence hero are Dominican. For example, Maximo Gómez was from Banà in DR and in Havana on the malecón is the best monument dedicated to him, better than anything commemorative of him in the DR. In fact, its the best monument dedicated to a Dominican in the world.
Cuba’s independence hero Antonio Maceo, his mother was Dominican.
In Santo Domingo’s National Pantheon is the only foreigner a Puerto Rican, Eugenio MarÃa de Hostos. He lived in DR for many years, but his family moved from Montecristi to Puerto Rico in the early 1800s, getting away from the Haitian armed invasions.
The brother of Juan Pablo Duarte, one of the DR founding fathers, was born in Mayagüez, PR. The Duarte family went to PR during the invasion of the Haitian Toussaint Loverture and wife gave birth in PR. They moved back to Santo Domingo after War of Reconquest was done in DR. All churches in Spanish America ring their bells when Santo Domingo was taken from 2,000 French in the War of Reconquest. Half of the soldiers that died in the battle of El Seibo in the War of Reconquest were Puerto Rican reinforcements. Once that war was won, the Real Audiencia de Santo Domingo moved back to Santo Domingo.
So on and so forth.
I think this is why so many PRs, Cubans, and Venezuelans feel at home in the DR. Many don’t know they descend from people that lived many centuries in the DR and they feel it.
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