Essay On Racism In Dominican Republic
Racism has been around the world since the beginning of time. Racism in its most basic form is the idea that if you are of a certain skin color you are better than another person of a different skin color. It is a topic that most people do not like to talk about but whether they like it or not it is a major issue that needs to be addressed. People of darker skin are the ones who have been oppressed by people of lighter skin since colonial times. However, most of it had stopped for a while but now we see that it is coming back. The same issues that people struggled with to get over and create harmony are entering back and haunting society today. The current event, the mass deportation of Haitians from Dominican Republic echoes its racist history.
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The racism within these two nations lies not between their economic status nor is it a certain conflict between the two. Even Haitians who were born in Dominican Republic were drafted for the expulsion. Mr. Kartz refers to the racism as “the narcissism of minor differences.” The racism of these two nations goes back to the colonial years when Haiti got its independence almost 60 years before the Dominican Republic by defeating Napoleon. The racism in Dominican Republic is they see that if you are white you have more power and this is how it is everywhere else in the world. Since the blacks were taken as slaves to work on the plantations, it is engraved in the minds of people that blacks are always lower than whites. Trujillo who was a military guard controlled public education and made Haitians hateful as a threat to the Dominican Republic. He did this by insisting that children in school be taught the differences between Haitians and Dominican in terms of how they look. Today most Dominicans grew up with the ideas that Trujillo has engraved in their minds such as Dominicans being proud while Haitians were gross and backward. Interestingly, the racism within these two nations is not based only on skin color but the way they speak, their hairstyles and the cultures that they
The racism within these two nations lies not between their economic status nor is it a certain conflict between the two. Even Haitians who were born in Dominican Republic were drafted for the expulsion. Mr. Kartz refers to the racism as “the narcissism of minor differences.” The racism of these two nations goes back to the colonial years when Haiti got its independence almost 60 years before the Dominican Republic by defeating Napoleon. The racism in Dominican Republic is they see that if you are white you have more power and this is how it is everywhere else in the world. Since the blacks were taken as slaves to work on the plantations, it is engraved in the minds of people that blacks are always lower than whites. Trujillo who was a military guard controlled public education and made Haitians hateful as a threat to the Dominican Republic. He did this by insisting that children in school be taught the differences between Haitians and Dominican in terms of how they look. Today most Dominicans grew up with the ideas that Trujillo has engraved in their minds such as Dominicans being proud while Haitians were gross and backward. Interestingly, the racism within these two nations is not based only on skin color but the way they speak, their hairstyles and the cultures that they