The Dominican Republic

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The people of the Dominican Republic are knowledgeable of their past in order to know what their future might bring. The Spanish settlers gave them their language, as well as their predominant faith. Africans were brought to the Dominican Republic as slaves, bringing their faith, music, and art. Their love of baseball came from the United States troops. Creativity such as music and art is a large portion of the Dominican Republican culture and lifestyle. Their music ranges from forms such as meringue, bachata, and salsa. These diverse forms of music are also combined with jazz, rock, and hip- hop to form a culture of music. The art scene of this country was "discovered" by Rafael Trujillo, who founded the national school of fine arts in 1942. The painting in the Dominican Republic is, in majority, Primitive. As well as painting, architecture is another part of the Dominican culture. Buildings in the country are preserved for a reason. The buildings have very interesting color, much like their art and music.

Roman Catholicism is the official religion of the Dominican Republic, serving faith to more than 90 percent of Dominicans. However, many Dominicans do not practice their faith like the orthodox church-goers would do. Most religion from Dominicans involves memorizing the Catechism, rather than attending mass regularly. Many Dominicans approached their faith through religious models such as saints and clergy. Also, they approached their faith through curanderos and brujos, who came close to saints through herbs, roots, and different remedies to cure. They also cured through the power of driving out possessed spirits who may be contained in a person.

Dominicans have many morals and values but they have five core values a...

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... regional and bilateral issues, and the Dominican government informed the US of its efforts to foster agreement of World Trade Organization issues and to advance the Free Trade Area of America's process. They are trying to make trade easier between the Dominicans and Americas.

The Dominican Republic in some ways is like the US. They have almost the same government, their president is voted on by the people and the president has a four year term. Only thing is we are a Democratic country and they are obviously a Republic. The Dominican Republic is full of many crops such as sugar, fruits, and tobaccos. Dominican Republic was founded by Christopher Columbus in 1492 and the Columbus' are a very important family in that country. Columbus' brother founded the colony of Santo Domingo. The Dominican Republic has many interesting facts and backgrounds to be discovered.

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