Dominican Republic

It's frickn' sad, but they did the same thing with Katrina—prevented people fleeing the disaster area from entering neighboring towns; the police of these towns actually fired on said refugees.

If there was a major disaster in Mexico and Mexicans started running for our borders in large quantities, I'm fairly certain our gov't. would do the same. Not that it would be right, just that I think they'd do it.

From my experience in most hospitals in the Dominican Republic they ask you to supply your own bandages, alcohol, and damn near stitches.
Perhaps they should have created some sort of Red Cross emergency headquarters where refugees could gather and be processed.
DR was lucky to be spared and while I understand resisting a mass exodus, they should do more than send over earth moving machines.
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It's silly madness and ignorance!

Same reason there has been prejudice against every darker skinned group within populations around the world.

i'm glad there's some good things happening in DR. i admit my knowledge of the countries' relationship is far from thorough, but the things i do know about their history don't make DR sound so great.... (Edwidge Danticat's "The Farming of Bones" is beautiful and horrifying.)

bococalady wrote: can anyone explain, why is there discrimination against the dark skinned dominicans in the DR? im just curious?

This article explains it well