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**costamarianavia** · 06-29-2010, 12:43 PM

Most people pretty much think that phenotypically, Haiti is no different from Africa in that the people are pretty much pure black African with an extremely tiny Mixed and White elite, but is this really true? Footage and photos of Haiti (usually Port-Au-Prince) often show them to be pretty much entirely 100% SSA, but this seems pretty similar to how the DR is portrayed in the media, as being a country where almost everyone looks like a regular brown-skinned African American, even though there's MUCH more variety in the DR than that (though most dominicans are in fact dark mulattos, but not homogeneously). Could this be the same case in Haiti? Especially since most people wouldn't even want to visit due to it's reputation.

I've personally met/seen some haitians who are what I would describe as "dark skinned mulatto" (for the second photo, the guy to the left):
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4WLuYjQfvW8/0.jpg
http://www.haitianmusicindustry.com/...rees-miami.jpg

Do a large chunk of people in haiti look like this, among the common people? And are there regions that can claim a somewhat mixed-race or creole heritage?

06-29-2010, 12:43 PM	#1
costamarianavia Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 422 Senior Member	Is Haiti really a Pure Black country with no admixture? Most people pretty much think that phenotypically, Haiti is no different from Africa in that the people are pretty much pure black African with an extremely tiny Mixed and White elite, but is this really true? Footage and photos of Haiti (usually Port-Au-Prince) often show them to be pretty much entirely 100% SSA, but this seems pretty similar to how the DR is portrayed in the media, as being a country where almost everyone looks like a regular brown-skinned African American, even though there's MUCH more variety in the DR than that (though most dominicans are in fact dark mulattos, but not homogeneously). Could this be the same case in Haiti? Especially since most people wouldn't even want to visit due to it's reputation. I've personally met/seen some haitians who are what I would describe as "dark skinned mulatto" (for the second photo, the guy to the left): http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4WLuYjQfvW8/0.jpg http://www.haitianmusicindustry.com/...rees-miami.jpg Do a large chunk of people in haiti look like this, among the common people? And are there regions that can claim a somewhat mixed-race or creole heritage?
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