Therefore I do agree.that the mulattos are a different group of people.
Ethnicity is a group of people with a common tradition and a sense of identity that functions as a subgroup within the larger society; membership is a matter of self-identification.
However one has to look at the entire package not just the skin tone.
Colorism on the other hand is a form of discrimination based solely on skin tone People should be judged by the content of their character not their skin tone.
The Syrians, Lebanese immigrants and other foreigners would do well not to use the "mulattos" as leverage against the majority of the noir creole population of Haiti.Population of Haiti 8,706,497 (2007 census)Ethnic groups: African descent 95%,African and European+mulatto descent 5%.
Mulatres = biracial or multiracial.
These terms are usually employed with three different meanings: self-identity, DNA, and appearance.Genetically mixed people autosomal DNA shows both subsaharan and European ancestry-informative markers.
Virtually all of the Haitian population show markers from both Continents.(exluding the Levantine group) An amazing example: one-third of the White U.S. population and virtually all African-Americans show markers from both continents.
In this sense, virtually all Black Americans and one-third of White Americans are mixed.
Other groups of people living in Haiti (year 2000): Levantine: Primary Language: Arabic, Standard modern.
Population: 3,984 Primary Religion: Islam.
Han Chinese,Population: 351 Primary Language: Chinese, Yue Primary Religion: Buddhism.
I borrowed the following from a previous post: ""In Haiti (formerly Saint-Domingue), mulattos represented a smaller proportion of the population than in many other Latin American countries. Today they constitute about 5% of the population. In the 18th century, they made up a class of their own, the gens de couleur. Often they were highly educated and wealthy. Many Haitian mulattos were also slaveholders and as such actively participated in the suppression of the black majority. However, some also actively fought for the abolition of slavery. Distinguished mulattos such as Nicolas Suard and others were prime examples of mulattoes who devoted their time, energy and financial means to this cause. Some were also members of the Les Amis des Noirs in Paris, an association that fought for the abolition of slavery. Nevertheless, many mulattos were slaughtered by African Haitians during the wars of independence in order to secure African political power over the island. Earlier some African volunteers had already aligned themselves with the French against the mulattos during the first and second mulatto rebellion. In Haiti, mulattos initially possessed legal equality with the unmixed French population. This provided them with many benefits, including inheritance. In the 18th century, however, Europeans fearful of slave revolts had restricted their rights, but they were successfully reclaimed in 1791. [edit] Brazil According to the IBGE 2000 census, 38.5% of Brazilians identified themselves as pardo, or of mixed ancestry.[11][12] This figure not only includes mulatto people but also includes other multiracial people such as people who have European and Amerindian ancestry (called caboclo). The term mulatto (mulato in Portuguese) is not commonly used anymore in Brazilian society. Instead, other terms widely used are moreno, light-moreno and dark-moreno. These terms are not considered offensive, and focus more on the skin color than on the ethnicity (it is close to other human characteristics like tall and short).Those terms are also used for other multiracial people in Brazil, and they are the popular terms for the pardo skin color used on the 2000 official census."" Previously Posted by Rosenberg on 2/23/08; You can copy and paste tittles to Youtube.com Videos: THE INTERRACIAL COUPLE / MULATOO GIRLS 2
