Part I. Compare and Contrast the reception of Cubans and Dominicans as they arrived in the United States When one leaves all that they know to venture into a land of supposed opportunity aka the United States, who is know what truly lies waiting for them once they arrive? Time has revealed that upon arrival in the states there is a common encounter that has eluded immigrants in having to experience a sense of division and sorts of hostility derived from those already here. People fear what they do not know and that fear transforms sometimes into unwelcoming behaviors that affect the adaptability and embracing of immigrants. This may be projected throughout migration history. Yet, prime examples of this somewhat inhospitable action taken
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As society hesitantly embraced the arrival of Cubans and Dominicans, one easily found themselves questioning what ethnicity or what race these individuals were to be. Americans sought to place them into a box that distinguished what category they were to be placed in. By which were conjectured merely on what meets the eye rather than what creates their unique humanity. Dominicans were often misconstrued as if they're Black Mexican, or Hispanic, never a correlation of the too. Which, conflicted with how Dominicans often found themselves denying their black roots that especially during the Trujillo era ranging from 1930 to 1961. When in reality their racial identity was created based on a triangle of relationships shaped by Haiti, the US, and the Dominican Republic fusing together this unique identity the Dominican Republicans are bestowed with. Cubans by the same mixture were questioned if they too fell suit with being Black, Mexican, Spanish, Hispanic, or white. It is unfortunate but, these categories were automatically placed on individuals out of false ideals on what one should be, that penetrate into the ideals of today as
As society hesitantly embraced the arrival of Cubans and Dominicans, one easily found themselves questioning what ethnicity or what race these individuals were to be. Americans sought to place them into a box that distinguished what category they were to be placed in. By which were conjectured merely on what meets the eye rather than what creates their unique humanity. Dominicans were often misconstrued as if they're Black Mexican, or Hispanic, never a correlation of the too. Which, conflicted with how Dominicans often found themselves denying their black roots that especially during the Trujillo era ranging from 1930 to 1961. When in reality their racial identity was created based on a triangle of relationships shaped by Haiti, the US, and the Dominican Republic fusing together this unique identity the Dominican Republicans are bestowed with. Cubans by the same mixture were questioned if they too fell suit with being Black, Mexican, Spanish, Hispanic, or white. It is unfortunate but, these categories were automatically placed on individuals out of false ideals on what one should be, that penetrate into the ideals of today as