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**CowextetleSix** · 11-18-2011, 03:30 AM

There are elements of taino culture in Domincian campesinos one, also in PR jibaro culture, still there are people who identify with the taino elemnt of DR culture and their taino ancestry and they can't be denied that just because they aren't pure Taino ro live a 100% intact taino culture.
And according to that logic neither they should identify as black, as they don't speak the African language or live a 100% African culture.

I am just going by what usually determines Native identity in the countries of the Western hemisphere. I've never seen mixed people who don't practice a (traditional/linguistic) Native culture be identified as Native statistically and demographically.

11-18-2011, 03:30 AM	#7
CowextetleSix Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 473 Senior Member	There are elements of taino culture in Domincian campesinos one, also in PR jibaro culture, still there are people who identify with the taino elemnt of DR culture and their taino ancestry and they can't be denied that just because they aren't pure Taino ro live a 100% intact taino culture. And according to that logic neither they should identify as black, as they don't speak the African language or live a 100% African culture. I am just going by what usually determines Native identity in the countries of the Western hemisphere. I've never seen mixed people who don't practice a (traditional/linguistic) Native culture be identified as Native statistically and demographically.
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