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Originally Posted by DoubleF
The Wester colonial powers and imperialism don't help. I don't disagree with that. As I mentioned I'm not well versed in the subject. The only aspect I know is what people from the DR say about Haiti.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domini...bbean%20region.
https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/p...blic-relations
This is what I found when I quickly looked up information relating to the relationship between the two countries. To call it tense is almost an understatement. Honestly speaking, I had no clue until I looked it up just now. Apparently the border between the two countries is being fortified and closed.
Again, I don't know enough. All I'm saying is that for individuals that emigrated from the country that shares the island, many seem kinda disappointed when it comes to the topic of Haiti. |
The DR and Haiti have a long history of killing each other. Haiti invaded the DR continuously for decades in the 1800s, and once they did a scorched earth genocide that killed a huge percentage of the population.
Then in the early 1900s Trujilo (dictator of the DR) massacred tens of thousands of Haitians.
The people aren't the same race, don't speak the same language, and the Dominican economy is more than 10x larger per capita. The economic disparity has led to tons of illegal immigration from Haiti, which is unpopular in the DR.