DOMINICAN REPUBLIC XENOPHOBIA: The Issue At Hand.

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Associated Press/ Red Cross Reports that according to an Amnesty International, the United Nations and The Human Rights Watch, the physical attacks against Haitians have increased since 1992 and reports of the lynching of Haitians surfaced as late as 2006.

Homes of suspected Haitians are sometimes burned to the ground and police roundups of "Haitian looking" people are conducted on a regular basis.

According to another New York Times report in 2004, grandchildren and great grandchildren of Haitians are denied birth certificates, medical care, education and social services because of their race and dependancy given the current political and economical challenges in today Haiti.

In 2007 the United Nations and International Human Rights Organizations found "profound and entrenched" racism at all levels of Dominican society, including within families.

SUGAR PRODUCTION SLOWS IN DR:
Figures released by the Dominican Sugar Institute (INAZUCAR) today 4/23/08.
inazucar.gov.do/

The Associated Press: Reveals that during the 2005-2006 sugar production season, DR only produced 490,350 metric tons of sugar, which wasn't enough to cover its own domestic demand or fill of the export quota to the United States this year. This collapse is blamed on a lack of Haitian labor workers with the help of Human Right activists and organizations who have seen the illegality of the working methods and conditions of the Haitians in DR which the Government is denying to address.

SEE WHAT IS BEING DISCUSSED BY HAITIANS AND DOMINICANS:
dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2008/4...

XENOPHOBIA: An unreasonable fear, distrust, or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or anything perceived as foreign or different.

A person unduly fearful or contemptuous of that which is foreign, especially of strangers or foreign peoples - especially of people of foreign origin.

Someone suffering from xenophobia is having abnormal fear or hatred of the strange or foreign filled with total fear or apprehension.

Thus in a nut shell, most of the general Dominicans are afraid of Haitians pretty much...

(However, I am sure someone will beg to differ in 1...

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Will Rosenberg, April 24 2008, 1:25 AM

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