What currently exists in the Dominican Republic is Chauvinism and Xenophobia towards Haitians but not racism. Racism as you know it in the United States (and maybe South Africa?) doesn't exist in the DR. read more
In the Dominican Republic the racism doesn’t exists like in other countries. There is not racism from a dominican against another dominican no matter the skin color. The racism is against haitians. The origin of this is not about the skin color but cultural, mores and linguistics. read more
The Dominican Republic is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean region. The western three-eighths of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti. The first captive Africans were sold as slaves through the ports of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, in 1503. read more
Building a school in Jacmel, Haiti, isn't what David Palmer had in mind when he started teaching children across the border in the Dominican Republic five years earlier. Palmer, not pictured, studied in the Dominican Republic while in college and was struck by the children he saw living in poverty. read more