The Studies in the Arts: Dominican Culture course examined multiple topic that relates to the culture of Dominican Republic, the political system during the past and the present, and all forms of music and sports that are popular in the country. The introduction to Antihaitianism in the Dominican Republic was first introduce at the beginning of the course. Antihaitianism is defined as the, “prejudice against, hatred of, or discrimination against Haitians and their language, culture, and race”. The two race have been in conflict due to sharing of the same island. For a long period of time, the Dominican army would kill the Haitians with weapons. During the 20th century the government and other political party wanted the island to be separated. …show more content…
The environment was demonstrated by the beautiful beaches, and also some poverty area of the Island. The two important music that was studied in this course were merengue and bachata. Merengue can only be played with only a Dominican drum and a guira. The Dominican tambora is a two headed drum which was used to play merengue music. They were made from salvaged rum barrels. The guira is known as a metal scraper which emerges from the Dominican Republic. This was used as a percussion instrument in merengue and also some kind of bachata. Merengue was originating in the Dominican Republic which became popular throughout Latin America and also was danced and played in the Hispanic neighborhoods of the United States. The Dominican Republic is the country of origin for bachata. Since the emergence of bachata in the early 1960’s, bachata was associated with poor rural migrants. Bachata was also considered too vulgar, crude, and too musically rustic. The music was not allowed in the mainstream musical landscape. Only a few years ago bachata was now finally respected by different class of the Dominican Republic. One of bachata’s most notable characteristics was extra musical; which
While this was happening the people of the Dominican Republic didn’t know. To them he won fair and square, and he was going to take care of their country. This was the first of many of wicked Trujillo's unfair stunts he pulled on the people of the Dominican Republic. Only one hundred and forty miles away from the Dominican Republic was the little country of Haiti. Due to the two countries being so close to each other, naturally some Haitians lived in the Dominican Republic and vise versa.
Culture of the Dominican Republic Compared to In the Time of the Butterflies In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez is a novel about four sisters and their journey fighting for themselves and their country. The book all started after an interviewer showed up to one sister, Dedé, for her and her sister’s story. The reason being because Dedé is the only surviving sister from a car accident that took the lives of her sisters, Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa. They all had a normal life, until they convinced their Papa to allow them to go to Inmaculada, a Catholic school located in the capital of the Dominican Republic.
Zykeria Adams Mrs. Brown Adv. Language/Literature 16 December 2016 Julia Alvarez The Dominican Republic elected Dictator Rafael Trujillo and Julia Alvarez mother preferred him over President Truman so at four months Julia’s family moved back to the Dominican Republic. Julia experience as a child living in Dominican Republic at the time was similar to the main character of Before we were Free.
String charanga are instruments that comprise of congas, timbales, bongos, bass, piano, woodwind, and a string area of violins, viola, and cello. Instruments, for example, the claves and guiro are generally play by singers.
The Dominican Republic Introduction The island in which the Dominican Republic now stands was originally known as Hispaniola. The native people of the island, called Taino, split up the island into five territories. Each territory also held one chiefdom within in. When Christopher Columbus was sailing the world in 1492, he claimed the eastern half of the island.
I had the grand honor of being born into a culturally diverse family. Although Dominican culture dominates our customs, we are 25% Middle Eastern from Lebanon, and 25% Spanish from Barcelona, Spain. The cultures have all laced into each other in such a way that I find it utterly ordinary to eat Arabic food while listening to Dominican music while serving Spanish desserts. My parents came to America at around the age that I am now, met each other, and my mom had my first sister at 18 while my father was 22. My mom went back to high school to finish her GED while my father enrolled in an institution that he never got around to finishing because his english was not well.
Chapter 1: Cultural Analysis: The chapter focuses and is centralize on the cultural environment and phenomena of Dominican Republic. We have tried to study and determine the cultural factors on how and what our service will be. Along the run our introduction will tell us the main points in Dominican Republic’s Cultural Analysis. I. INTRODUCTION: “Dios, Patria, Libertad”
Growing up in Cuba, boys and girls were freely allowed to play with one another. Many girls would climb big trees to get fresh savory mangos. They would fall and scrape their knees while playing hide and seek and even play sports which were considered “manly”. Many girls preferred to work outside the house, they would perform jobs such as; repairing a broken fence or painting the house. Boys were never told not to play with the girls, in fact, they would also help out around the house and clean dishes after a meal.
Another popular food they eat is called Mangu dominicano it contains Plantains,meat,eggs,vegetables, and they put other things if they decide to such as spices. They mainly eat it at lunch because that’s one of the most important meal of the day. Merengue Festival is one of the most popular festival’s in the Dominican Republic in July 26-31 which they dress up and dance with a partner as they shake their hips rapidly to their music. Baseball is one of their most favored sport by far in the Dominican Republic. The dominican Republic has the second-highest number of baseball players in Major League Baseball.
Joshua Morgan Oral Communication Professor Currie General purpose-to inform Specific purpose- my classmates will be able to convey how I grew to have an intimate relationship with Haiti Central idea-Haiti has a special place in my heart Intro Attention grabber- Haiti is not a large country, Haiti 's border with the Dominican-Republic is only 159 miles. To put that in perspective, if you were to drive along the border at 60 mph 's, it would only take you 2 hours and 39 mins.
“Slavery In The Dominican Republic and How It Affected the Natives Racial Identity” By definition the Dominican Republic is a Caribbean Hispaniola Island that is shared with Haiti to the West. The Dominican Republic today is a major tourist destination and has become a major source of sugar, coffee, and other exports. But the Dominican Republic had to suffer a lot in order to prevail the way they did, undergoing being enslaved by the Spaniards while on the other side of the island the Haitians were enslaved by the french hence the obvious difference in languages and cultures. The main difference is that the Dominican Republic lost their racial identity and until the present day are unaware of their true racial identity. Slavery affects every country and person differently but in the Dominican Republic, slavery took away the nation’s identity.
One key theme of Dominicanish is the difficulty of communication. In other words, the difficulties of learning a new language and the obstacle of being of darker complexion. In Dominicanish, by Josefine Baez, she expresses her opinion of pronouncing in English. Baez states, “GOSH to pronounce one little phrase one must become another person with the mouth all twisted Yo no voy a poner la boca asi como un guante” (Baez 22).
The most noticeable difference tends to be a large proportion of Hispanic influence with a bit of African in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, whereas Cuba is a more equal balance of the two (Roberts 10). One of the Dominican Republic’s music styles that successfully made it in the U.S. was the merengue (Roberts 10). This is a country style dance with instrumentation including a guiro (metal scrapper), a tambora, and a saxophone, and is sometimes fronted by a larger brass dance
Details and examples III. Conclusion a. Summary of main points Living in Dominican Republic vs living in Haiti Important researches about the history of the Caribbean shows significant geographical information about the second largest island in the Caribbean also known as the Hispaniola, which contains two separate countries; Dominican Republic and Haiti. This two countries are similar in several ways; for example, both share an impressive history about their colonialism and slavery. Even
From this, it can be said that to Filipinos, music is more than just a means of entertainment; it is a way to communicate emotions, to tell stories, and to express feelings. This is especially the case in times of crisis, the most significant instance being during the Martial Law period in the 1970s. This dissertation aims to discuss the role of music during this period. In particular, how was music used as a vehicle to supplement change in this period?