Word: dominican
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...million people, 7.5 million of them children, are working as bonded laborers in factories, on farms and on construction projects, unable to pay off employer advances. The ILO warns that slavery-like practices also exist in countries as varied as Mauritania, India, Thailand, Peru, Brazil and the Dominican Republic...
However, the connection most Latin Americans feel to Spain is often so remote that such an identification is patently absurd. Most Latinos (or Hispanics) agree that it is as ridiculous to call a Mexican or Dominican the same name given to a Spaniard as it is for Archie Bunker to characterize all people with Spanish surnames as Puerto Rican. To Archie's credit, the reality of demographics in New York at the time "All in the Family" was filmed makes his stereotype an understandable assumption...
...Dominican should not feel compelled to prefer Latino or Hispanic. What's wrong with simply using "Dominican"? Germans don't generally call themselves Europeans. Canadians don't refer to each other as North Americans. It makes sense to use a name that is descriptive and meaningful...
While today's secular checks on the Church's power may prevent the mass executions of the past, they cannot prevent the church from causing havoc in other ways. The pope and teh Catholic hierarchy have been alleged supporters of oppressive militaristic regimes in the Dominican Republic and throughout Latin America...
...Pope has just completed a trip to the Dominican Republic to celebrate the arrival of Christianity 500 years ago with the arrival of Christopher Columbus. As the chief evangelist of Christ's gospel on earth, the visit was indisputably inappropriate, whatever one thinks of the fifteenth century explorer...