do you consider this Black love or interracial love ?

[ultraflexed]

I'm aware of the stats you're referring to. The percentages you gave in your other post are based on some old MtDNA/maternal tests that were conducted on about 112 people in a poor area DR (with Haitians included). The people in the Dominican parade would actually be a much larger and representative sample size as they come from the most densely populated areas of the DR, the Cibao region and Santo Domingo metro area.

Your made my point, are talking % in new York or the actually Dominican Republic country.
You said the study I read was done in the "poor area" where your study was conducted in better area, now just because your study was conducted in a non poor area does that make it more legit?

If you 40% study combine with my 80% the actually median is around 60%African which actually closure to the truth then your people are willing to admit

 

[antonio21]

Your made my point, are talking % in new York or the actually Dominican Republic country.
You said the study I read was done in the "poor area" where your study was conducted in better area, now just because your study was conducted in a non poor area does that make it more legit?

If you 40% study combine with my 80% the actually median is around 60%African which actually closure to the truth then your people are willing to admit

You can't conflate these studies as they're based on completely different methods. The problem you're having here is that you don't know the difference between MtDNA tests and Autosomal genetic testing. The percentages you mentioned earlier are not only based on a very small insignificant sample of the Dominican population, but also based on incomplete data. MtDNA or mitochondrial testing is only used to determine the maternal ancestral line, whereas autosomal testing is used to determine your entire genetic makeup. The studies I posted where definitely not conducted on a "better area" or wealthy segment of our population, but rather of Dominican migrants in the US who mostly come from a lower socioeconomic background in the DR. There are many rural and working class people in the Central Cibao region of DR who look predominantly Caucasian in their appearance.

 

[Chichi Manietzsche]

It's an intercultural relationship

 

[Malta]

@Malta

If she were born in Texas this wouldn't even be a question of what she is.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Which ones exactly? Almost every autosomal test I've seen puts the percentage of the average Dominican as lower than 40%. This is just one example:

DNAtribes is not a peer-reviewed source, but instead a private company. Here is a more recent peer-reviewed autosomal study on Dominicans.

Population Structure. We applied the clustering algorithm FRAPPE to investigate genetic structure among Hispanic/Latino individuals using a merged data set with over 5,000 individuals with European, African, and Native American ancestry genotyped across 73,901 SNPs common to the Affymetrix 500K array and the Illumina 610-Quad panel (Materials and Methods). FRAPPE implements a maximum likelihood method to infer the genetic ancestry of each individual, where the individuals are assumed to have originated from K ancestral clusters (24). The plots for K = 3 and K = 7 are shown in Fig. 1 and for all other values of K in Fig. S1 K = 3. We observed clustering largely by Native American, African, and European ancestry, with the Hispanic/Latino populations showing genetic similarity with all of these populations. However, significant population differences exist, with the Dominicans and Puerto Ricans showing the highest levels of African ancestry (41.8% and 23.6% African, SDs 16% and 12%), whereas Mexicans and Ecuadorians show the lowest levels of African ancestry (5.6% and 7.3% African, SDs 2% and 5%) and the highest Native American

Source:
http://www.pnas.org/content/107/Supplement_2/8954.full.pdf

While not 47% like I said, they are not below 40% like you stated. This study has them at 41.8% African.

 

[Crayola Coyote]

Also I remember Dominicans hating on Rosa Acosta for not only visiting Africa, but saying "we're Africans."

Rosa Acosta Responds To Criticism About Volunteering In Tanzania

But I'm also noticing many Afro-Latinos in the US, especially Dominicans are becoming more and more vocal and comfortable of being black which is interesting.

Ain't no rainbow coalition type of dude but I think people are waking up to their blackness.

 

[antonio21]

DNAtribes is not a peer-reviewed source, but instead a private company. Here is a more recent peer-reviewed autosomal study on Dominicans.

Source:
http://www.pnas.org/content/107/Supplement_2/8954.full.pdf

While not 47% like I said, they are not below 40% like you stated. This study has them at 41.8% African.

Nice find. 41.8% is closer to 35.2% than it is to 47-50% though, like you mentioned earlier. And definitely nowhere near close to 80%. I've seen too many people in different websites who don't know anything about genetics regurgitating the outdated MtDNA study, so I appreciate that someone is using an actual autosomal study for once.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Nice find. 41.8% is closer to 35.2% than it is to 47-50% though, like you mentioned earlier. And definitely nowhere near close to 80%. I've seen too many people in different websites who don't know anything about genetics regurgitating the outdated MtDNA study, so I appreciate that someone is using an actual autosomal study for once.

41.8% would actually be between the two imo.

 

[antonio21]

41.8% would actually be between the two imo.

You mentioned 47-50% so I assumed your initial estimate was somewhere between those two percentages.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

You mentioned 47-50% so I assumed your initial estimate was somewhere between those two percentages.

Thats because I thought I read a study that had the percentages around those percentages.

 

[antonio21]

Thats because I thought I read a study that had the percentages around those percentages.

Well obviously you thought wrong. But still 41.8% is a pretty damn high percentage imo. That makes us by far the blackest Latinos, if we exclude Haitians.

 

[HandsomeBrute]

She's clearly mulatto.
On sidenote, how many of yall actually live in Nyc or Dr?

I'm from Brooklyn,grew up with Dominicans/Ricans and went to middle/high school with them.
I've seen ones who are white as hell but for the most part, they're mixed.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Well obviously you thought wrong. But still 41.8% is a pretty damn high percentage imo. That makes us by far the blackest Latinos, if we exclude Haitians.

And you thought wrong about Dominicans being less than 40%. I guess we're even. And yes that would make Dominicans the "blackest" Latinos if we exclude Haitians and Afro-Brazilians.

 

[antonio21]

And you thought wrong about Dominicans being less than 40%. I guess we're even. And yes that would make Dominicans the "blackest" Latinos if we exclude Haitians and Afro-Brazilians.

That was based on an actual study though, and wasn't too far off from the percentages on your peer-reviewed study. Now I still haven't seen a single autosomal DNA test that shows the average Dominican as being 47-50% black, peer-reviewed or otherwise.

 

[antonio21]

Also, if we include minority groups within countries I think Afro-Cubans and Afro-Colombians along with the Afro-Brazilians would be blacker. The blacks in these countries are pure as fukk. In DR the Afro admixture is more evenly spread out.