[Porfirio Rubirosa]

(06-18-2015 12:20 AM)MajorStyles Wrote:  

2.) Many Haitians do not assimilate, but rather, they hold on tightly to their cultural ways. The DR is not a place with self-enclosed barrios like the US, where cultures remain inclusive even after arrival. You are forced to immerse yourself in Dominican culture. So people who blatantly reject this are ultimately frowned upon.

In urban centres you don't really notice this with second-generation immigrants and so on but in some rural areas and especially obscure bateyes populated almost exclusively by Haitians you'll meet Dominican-born people who only speak Haitian Creole having only a basic command of the Spanish language.