Dominican Culture Decoded! 🇩🇴 

@Rolls Royce 🤗 I'm glad you enjoyed it!

@@VivaBellabyXtina Gracia Mami, lo agresco muchisimo, desde Manhattan, NYC.....

All my Haitians in DR I love u

❤ for u. Thumbs 👍 for video

​​@@listhatelisme1445it's a dominicaN video why not love Haitians in Florida NYC

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you and i are in the same boat mana. i’m half dominican and half italian (sicilian). my dad left when i was a baby though, so i was never taught my dominican culture. however i do have a lot of puerto rican family, so i guess that kind of made up for the lack of my hispanic culture i guess? i really wanna learn and be apart of my other half ❤️💙🇩🇴

Thank you so much! I'm glad 🙂

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Thank you, and you're welcome 😊

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I'm glad you enjoyed it!! ☺️

Thank you!

I love Jamaica.

Gracias!!

@@K1ngKrunch you're right, that is your opinion and you are entitled to it.......

Just like millions of Americans from other parts think that the southern accent is low class. I was born in New York but I grew up in Florida. Most Dominicans, Boricuas and Cubans that I know speak like that. Now Estrelleta, I disagree with you, I don't think it's shameful. I don't think it's low class but again that's your opinion. Just like I don't think the southern accent is low class. But for the people who don't like it, oooo well LOL.

@@K1ngKrunch LOL you kill me i'm lovin it hehehehehe hahahahaha, you is a breath of fresh air. That's just how we's southern fook ( folks) tawk ( talk). I (eyes) from Flooda (Florida). We say ole not oil LOL...... We some country fook....

Another southern lesson. I'm fissin to go to da stoa... Translation: I'm about to go to the store. I done told you translation I have told you LOL....

@@K1ngKrunch LOL heeeheee hahahahaha. One of those dialects sound so familar to me Lol. It reminds me of mi familia...Mi familia es de la capital. I say Tia Verónica, dime cómo te siente? She says ay mi sobrino, me siento muy feli. That's just how mi familia talks lol. My mom's say to me, mijo que ta haciendo o que ta perando? I say e toy perando la guagua y e toy perando que mi pana me llame pa tra...... I remember mi prima said to my friend hola mi amol. My friend was tripping. He asked me Wendell what the hell is a mole? Then I realized it and told him she said amor LOL..... I love that video....Asi hablan los dominicanos....LOL Pa lante....ke es esa vaina que tú tiene ay ay Dio mío....lol

Thank you so much!

@@VivaBellabyXtina Anytime! Very professional, and informative!

🙏🏾🙏🏾 Thank you, so glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you!!

Haha!

I'm glad this was able to help!

Thank you!

Yes!

Thank you!

Glad you enjoy the videos! Unfortunately I don't really know of any channels that focus more on PR culture 😕 not sure if you saw them already, but I did make a video on PR Bomba music and I made a video on DR/PR/Cuba in one. I think they are in my Cultures of the Americas playlist!

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@@VivaBellabyXtina Yes I never been went to Elementary nor Middle school with Dominicans . The 1st time I heard about Dominican Republic when I was my Teens I was like I would love to go there . I never been to 🇩 nor try the food before I gotta try 🇩🇴 dishes I'm allergic to all kinds of Seafood so I can't eat it

Thanks!

Thank you! And no, unfortunately I do not 😕 I didn't note all my sources down back when I was making these videos.

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Yup lol

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I say que lo que primo, cómo tu ta? He responds ay primo to ta bien to ta bien k hay de nuevo? Then I say to ta bien. La vida ta buena.....Lol

VI? Vigin Islands?

@@VivaBellabyXtina I meant to say "visit". LOL

@@MrAmhara ohhh lol I'm going in December! I will definitely be vlogging

@@VivaBellabyXtina Ok. I'm looking forward to your content. But you have to go to a bar/ restaurant and dance Bachata when get there. 😁

I'm not sure 🤔 we really do say it a lot though lol

Understandable! My parents taught us this but I've slacked with teaching it to my own kids

@@VivaBellabyXtina same actually my kids don’t speak Spanish at all I have to start sending them to dr for the summer so they can learn

Oh wow you're right, I hadn't even realized that

@@VivaBellabyXtina JAJA Hay que saber same game different country

Lol, my mom's side aren't TOO bad, but my dad's side... 🤦🏾‍♀️ those men must have livers of iron lol

@@VivaBellabyXtina LOL

The women of my family are not too bad but all the men drink lol.

Cada vez que yo viajo a la Rep Dom, tengo ganas de beber una linda botella de Él Presidente Lol

My mothers family is all alcoholics. I was opposite and ashamed. My mother grew up without a father because he was a drunk and left my grandmother. And my uncles and mother are alcoholics. My mother is now a recovering alcoholic but the damage has already been done. I am not happy with the extreme abuse I had to endure as a child and growing up from my mother. Also, Dominicans stay very close with family. At least mine does…mostly the women. 3rd, 4th, 5th cousins are just “cousins”. Grandmothers and great grandmothers are just like having another mother. My mom still behaves like a 10 year old in the presence of her mother and there’s “mommy issues” like crazy in my family. Was very weird seeing my mother get scolded by my grandmother when my mom was a grown woman. Those things together were so insanely toxic. I broke this cycle in my family. I absolutely will not touch alcohol given my families history with alcoholism. I’m not proud of it in the slightest. It’s so harmful. I changed my parenting too. When my mother tries to step in as a mother to my children I have to put her in her place quickly to remind her they are not hers and she is the grandmother, not a second mother. This has made my family extremely angry. But I refuse to pass down toxic patterns and behaviors simply because of cultural upbringing.

Yep.

RD.. recien aprendi de la mangulina! Tendre que hacer un video sobre eso como parte de mi "Music of the Americas" serie

Gurl what

Who told you merengue had any connections with Mexican culture?

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Hi! To be honest I don't know too much about it, I know that there is a small Muslim community and I've seen pics of mosques around the country but I've never really looked into the history of how the religion arrived to the island or began to spread 🤔 I will need to look into that!

@@VivaBellabyXtina Thank you! I appreciate your response. :)

There were quite a bit of Muslims in Spain; the Moors ruled Spain for centuries. In fact the architecture in Southern Spain is very Islamic/North African (the Alhambra). The name Andalucia is actually the European version of Al Andulus, which I believe is what the Moors called it. Some Spanish surnames and names are actually Arabic in origin, like the name Omar 😊 anyhoo I loved ur video, the Dominican ppl are awesome!

Just say your black don't say Dominican

@@ER-df8vx um, no. My identity is my own. Not all Dominicans are Black and vice versa.

Spain is more evident by far

Haitians do not want to be Haitians, they prefere to be anything but Haitians. Lol

Yeah we have way more in common with Spain NOT AFRICA.