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**slimsex** · 06-30-2010, 03:34 AM

In my opinion, there are a great deal of haitians that aren't "pure" black - even the ones that look str8 outta Ghana tend to sometimes have somewhat of a considerable (no more than 1/3 non-african for the "fresh outta ghana lookin ones" however) amount of nonafrican admixture (if you consider 1/4 non-african to be a "considerable amount"). I tend to think Haitians are somewhat underlooked, in terms of non-african admixture. I think around 60 percent of haitians are pure black, around 30 percent are "inbetweens" of a 50-50 mulatto and a pure african, 10 percent are true mulattoes/whites/or anything non-african.

Yeah, I figured that this stereotype is caused by the fact that all people see of Haiti is the slums of port-au-prince, which is perhaps one of the entirely homogenous areas of Haiti. Although when I was watching the news when the earthquake had just happened, I saw a young haitian commoner being interviewed and he definitely looked to have caucasian ancestry, like maybe 20%. I just read in a book on Dominican history that the South of Haiti was a mulatto region, while the north was a black region during the time of the Haitian revolution and the conflicts between Blacks and Mulattos. I'm guessing the blacks of the North could've moved to the South and absorbed the mulatto population, leaving some exotic "griffe"/MGM types in that region.

The average phenotype could also vary by class. 80% of Haitians are impoverished, but there's still a 20% who are middle class (or perhaps working class), and it seems like a large chunk of them are dark mixes or even mulattos based on what i've seen.

Haiti is no DR or Puerto Rico, and the vast majority of Haitians whether "dark mulatto" or "black" would be seen as "black" to the average Western eye, but it'd still be interesting to see if some regions of Haiti have a sort of psuedo-latin american/french creole culture like say Louisiana. It can't just be a new world transplant of Africa.

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People from Fond Des Blanc:
http://assets3.razoo.com/image/image...9.jpg-conv.jpg
http://www.southofboston.net/special...-281-450px.jpg
http://haitiprojects.org/womanarticle1.jpg
http://www.fondsdesblancs.com/topic1/bv000004.jpg
http://www.haitihealth.org/images/up...fc090d6b00.jpg
http://www.vieuxbourgeois.com/Events...NOIS_007_1.jpg

06-30-2010, 03:34 AM	#13
slimsex Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 459 Senior Member	In my opinion, there are a great deal of haitians that aren't "pure" black - even the ones that look str8 outta Ghana tend to sometimes have somewhat of a considerable (no more than 1/3 non-african for the "fresh outta ghana lookin ones" however) amount of nonafrican admixture (if you consider 1/4 non-african to be a "considerable amount"). I tend to think Haitians are somewhat underlooked, in terms of non-african admixture. I think around 60 percent of haitians are pure black, around 30 percent are "inbetweens" of a 50-50 mulatto and a pure african, 10 percent are true mulattoes/whites/or anything non-african. Yeah, I figured that this stereotype is caused by the fact that all people see of Haiti is the slums of port-au-prince, which is perhaps one of the entirely homogenous areas of Haiti. Although when I was watching the news when the earthquake had just happened, I saw a young haitian commoner being interviewed and he definitely looked to have caucasian ancestry, like maybe 20%. I just read in a book on Dominican history that the South of Haiti was a mulatto region, while the north was a black region during the time of the Haitian revolution and the conflicts between Blacks and Mulattos. I'm guessing the blacks of the North could've moved to the South and absorbed the mulatto population, leaving some exotic "griffe"/MGM types in that region. The average phenotype could also vary by class. 80% of Haitians are impoverished, but there's still a 20% who are middle class (or perhaps working class), and it seems like a large chunk of them are dark mixes or even mulattos based on what i've seen. Haiti is no DR or Puerto Rico, and the vast majority of Haitians whether "dark mulatto" or "black" would be seen as "black" to the average Western eye, but it'd still be interesting to see if some regions of Haiti have a sort of psuedo-latin american/french creole culture like say Louisiana. It can't just be a new world transplant of Africa. ---------- Post added 2010-06-29 at 19:51 ---------- People from Fond Des Blanc: http://assets3.razoo.com/image/image...9.jpg-conv.jpg http://www.southofboston.net/special...-281-450px.jpg http://haitiprojects.org/womanarticle1.jpg http://www.fondsdesblancs.com/topic1/bv000004.jpg http://www.haitihealth.org/images/up...fc090d6b00.jpg http://www.vieuxbourgeois.com/Events...NOIS_007_1.jpg
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