Zac, I've posted on this before, but I will try to answer you...
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Zac, I've posted on this before, but I will try to answer you now as best as I can. What I've observe about Haiti today is sad.
1. There is no longer any real aristocracy in Haiti.
Let me explain:
A. There is not enough of the old aristocracy left in Haiti for them to really be considered a whole social class.
There are not enough of them to really have any impact on the society and they are not even recognize by the rest of the social groups that now occupy the country.
B. There is also a small intellectual group in Haiti, but they like the aristocracy are too small in numbers to be considered a social class.
They also have no power and are too small a group to have any impact on social issues in Haiti.
C. There is a large group in Haiti now passing itself off as an aristocracy.
However, they do not meet the necessary criteria to qualify as an aristocratic class.
For one thing, in most societies members of a country's aristocracy tend to be the ones who really care about preserving their country's national integrity, and national sovereignty.
This new group of Haitians pretending to be an aristocracy really only have money and light skin. That makes them a petty bourgeois class--not an aristocracy.
This group of Haitians fail the first test of aristocracy which is to care about the nation; preserving its history, its traditional culture, its sovereignty, and its economic growth.
You see, true aristocracies have their history anchored in the national history.
So their ancestors most likely fought in Haiti's revolution or lived in Haiti from the earliest days of its existence.
Some had ancestors who fought against the Americans in their last invasion.
Aristocracy is connected with national heritage and pride.
Members of this new "elite" or as I called them petty bourgeois class, would sell Haiti for a dime. Many of them are only one or two generation Haitians and really don't care about the Haitian people or the nation itself.
The only thing they care about is how to squeeze that poor nation to get its last juices out so that they can fill their pockets; they in turn have nothing to give it.
Aristocrats are by nature selfish, but they are also intelligent and nationalistic.
They know that they must give back to their nation if it is to prosper.
I mean who wants to be an aristocrat of a dump; well those people who are not real aristocrats, like the ones in Haiti today.
So, to answer your question: No, there is no aristocratic class left in Haiti.
Many of those who were part of that class were forced into exile during the Duvalier period, the rest left when the little thief Aristide tried to secure his power by turning the poor against the rich, instead of coming up with constructive ways to really help the country's fiscal situation.
Linda, July 24 2009, 4:19 PM
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