Available data from the New York City Department of City Planning indicate that Dominican and the Chinese communities are the top two immigrant groups in the city. The Dominican group has a population strength of 380‚200‚ compared to that of the Chinese which is about 350‚200‚ according to a December 18‚ 2013 Press Release from the agency. Sub-Saharan African population is about 4% of the total immigrant population in the city. I have profiled organizations with services in politics‚ legal‚ language
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The plantain is very important to me and to the Dominican culture. It is part of our identity‚ and it is a staple food of the Dominican Republic. So much so‚ that there is a saying used to express how Dominican someone is. The saying goes‚ “he/she is more Dominican than the plantain.” There is even an old song that uses the plantain as a metaphor. The chorus of the song says‚ “platano maduro no vuelve a verde”‚ which translates to‚ “ripe plantain does not return to being green.” This is saying to
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It was a day before the dance and I was excited. I was going to the dance with Celia from the Dominican republic. Also Froggy was going he wanted to be the 3rd wheel between us. Today was the day‚ it was the day of the dance I have been waiting for this day all year. I had finally made it to the dance I could tell nobody wanted to dance because everybody was sitting next to the wall. So me and Froggy went to join them. As me Froggy were sitting I had started to worry so I got up and started
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foreigners from around the world. Some also migrate from many Latin countries including Mexico‚ Cuba‚ and the Dominican Republic‚ as mentioned in "Immigrants from the Dominican Republic in the United States" by authors Jeanne Batalova and Chiamaka Nwosu. Hispanics are one of the biggest immigrant groups in America and Dominicans are the fifth-largest Hispanic group throughout the states. The Dominican diaspora‚ the different methods
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Haiti vs. the Dominican Republic Comparing Two Sister Countries They say the grass is always greener on the other side‚ for Haiti this saying seems to be true. Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the island of Hispaniola‚ but are completely different in many ways. Haiti is the poorest countries in the western hemisphere and almost all of its people live in poverty‚ while the Dominican Republic is one of the wealthier countries. In 1960‚ both countries had the same per capita real GDP but in
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in the D.R. The Republic experienced a tortuous process of social and political unrest that naturally unhinged the economic development of the forces native production. These factors of national and international nature‚ derived from the clash between the great industrial powers of the capitalist world‚ which triggered the First World War and clearly explain the true causes-economic‚ political and military that led to the occupation by the United States of Dominican Republic and the establishment
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The Dominican Struggle for Equality In the Dominican Republic‚ Politics have made the largest impact on the rights of the peoples. The leaders of the Dominican‚ the laws and what they enforce is what made the Dominican so poor. A major contributor to the poor people of the DR and the below average rights of all the peoples was the Bloodiest dictator in all of Latino history‚ Raphael Trujillo1. When his regime ruled over the Dominican Republic he seemed to not care at all at all for the lives of
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there a large amount of Haitians and Dominicans in Boston Massachusetts. I began my research to the roots of the conflict of Hatians and Dominicans to see what caused the flow of immagrants to come to the U.S. The struggle between Hatians and Dominicans began in colonials times when both sides were trying to take over Hispanola. France and Spain fought over control intill they decided to split the Island into 2 countrys one Hatie owned by France and Dominican Republic owned by spain. Two islands in the
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paternal side‚ they have provided me with a lot of insight to our family history and how we have ended in the United States. On my Dominican side we have not had many family members migrate to the United States until my mother and aunts decided to do so in in the 1970s. Santo Domingo‚ where my mother is originally from is the capital and the largest city in the Dominican Republic (DR). For a while the DR was not heavily populated until the metropolitan area was expanded‚ which increased the population to
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of the Republic. Nobody was happy with their situation. The Patricians wanted to keep their power and not give anything up to other civilizations or even people of their own society. However‚ this created a lack of resources and opportunities for the Plebeians‚ who then caused turmoil for the Patricians. Their solution was to redistribute land and wealth to the poor people‚ but the lack of cooperation eventually led to the downfall of the system. There are many parallels between the Republic and today
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