Yeh...Mr. Sousa skin color got my attention also. He does look younger thou..
"Here, as in much of Latin America -- the "one drop rule'' works in reverse: One drop of white blood allows even very dark-skinned people to be considered white."...yeh, those drop rules..
.. but DNA always show the true colors even when the skin shows just one side of peoples histories and ignore others, etc.
"A walk down city streets shows a country where blacks and dark-skinned people vastly outnumber whites, and most estimates say that 90 percent of Dominicans are black or of mixed race. Yet census figures say only 11 percent of the country's nine million people are black.
To many Dominicans, to be black is to be Haitian. So dark-skinned Dominicans tend to describe themselves as any of the dozen or so racial categories that date back hundreds of years -- Indian, burned Indian, dirty Indian, washed Indian, dark Indian, cinnamon, moreno or mulatto, but rarely negro.
The Dominican Republic is not the only nation with so many words to describe skin color. Asked in a 1976 census survey to describe their own complexions, Brazilians came up with 136 different terms..."
LOL I have to laugh about Brazilians..the miscegenation is so great and high between white, native indian and black since Colony times until today..that there are many browns shades going on over there. Things outside US is not black and white, at all. :wink:
"The Cuban black was told he was black. The Dominican black was told he was Indian," said Dominican historian Celsa Albert, who is black. "I am not Indian. That color does not exist. People used to tell me, You are not black.' If I am not black, then I guess there are no blacks anywhere, because I have curly hair and dark skin."..Great thing is when individuals start to find out for themselves who they really are.
"Here, as in much of Latin America -- the "one drop rule'' works in reverse: One drop of white blood allows even very dark-skinned people to be considered white."...yeh, those drop rules..
.. but DNA always show the true colors even when the skin shows just one side of peoples histories and ignore others, etc. "A walk down city streets shows a country where blacks and dark-skinned people vastly outnumber whites, and most estimates say that 90 percent of Dominicans are black or of mixed race. Yet census figures say only 11 percent of the country's nine million people are black.
To many Dominicans, to be black is to be Haitian. So dark-skinned Dominicans tend to describe themselves as any of the dozen or so racial categories that date back hundreds of years -- Indian, burned Indian, dirty Indian, washed Indian, dark Indian, cinnamon, moreno or mulatto, but rarely negro.
The Dominican Republic is not the only nation with so many words to describe skin color. Asked in a 1976 census survey to describe their own complexions, Brazilians came up with 136 different terms..."
LOL I have to laugh about Brazilians..the miscegenation is so great and high between white, native indian and black since Colony times until today..that there are many browns shades going on over there. Things outside US is not black and white, at all. :wink:
"The Cuban black was told he was black. The Dominican black was told he was Indian," said Dominican historian Celsa Albert, who is black. "I am not Indian. That color does not exist. People used to tell me, You are not black.' If I am not black, then I guess there are no blacks anywhere, because I have curly hair and dark skin."..Great thing is when individuals start to find out for themselves who they really are.
