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**suidinguilelf** · 11-18-2011, 03:54 AM

There are many more who do so, but they are underrated, PR are the ones who identify more as it, Dominicans have knowledge in taino culture, I remeber kilometro speaking about taino legends and taino words, but despite it only some identify as soleley Taino, but majority just identify as Dominicans, but despite that, why eliminating the indigneous identity from DR society?

---------- Post added 2011-11-17 at 16:52 ----------

Diasporing population don't represnt a country population, it is like saying all Mexicans are your clones.

I don't think there was an Indigena category in DR in the first place so I don't know what you are talking about Jib. Kilo and Andullero have mentioned various times that Indio in DR does not mean Indigena, it is just a color descriptor, so those people being called Indio before were not being identified as Indigenous but as a skin color.

11-18-2011, 03:54 AM	#16
suidinguilelf Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 409 Senior Member	There are many more who do so, but they are underrated, PR are the ones who identify more as it, Dominicans have knowledge in taino culture, I remeber kilometro speaking about taino legends and taino words, but despite it only some identify as soleley Taino, but majority just identify as Dominicans, but despite that, why eliminating the indigneous identity from DR society? ---------- Post added 2011-11-17 at 16:52 ---------- Diasporing population don't represnt a country population, it is like saying all Mexicans are your clones. I don't think there was an Indigena category in DR in the first place so I don't know what you are talking about Jib. Kilo and Andullero have mentioned various times that Indio in DR does not mean Indigena, it is just a color descriptor, so those people being called Indio before were not being identified as Indigenous but as a skin color.
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