A general look of the Dominican Republic and its culture, including an overview of the that nation's history, religion, morale, festivities, geography, government, and daily life.
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 along with their morals: compassion, inclusion, liberation, hope, and Jesus. They act as ministers who take the love of Christ and feed the hungry, heal the hurt, and do to the least what we did to him. AS people of inclusion they believe Jesus came to include all, not exclude. All are welcome. They are people of liberation because they seek to challenge all the oppressed and they embody grace by living out their liberation until all are set free of oppression. Dominicans are filled with hope, joy, and unrelenting optimism because they believe: God is good, with God all things are possible, and God uses us to transform the world. As Jesus' people they believe Jesus was the incarnation if God's grace. They believe Jesus was the ultimate liberal and showed us the way to lead the life God intends for all of us.
Judicial branch judges are elected by a Council made up of members of the legislative and executive branches with the president presiding. The branches in their government resemble our government.
The daily life of the Dominican Republic is very interesting. During the day they do many different things like cleaning and doing crafts with others. They have to regular meals breakfast, lunch and dinner. Things that they would eat would be their national dish beans and rice. Rice was the most important crop for them.
Dominican Day in August-Colorful floats move on the street as music plays with the participants wearing their costumes. People along the street yell, sing, dance, and wave the Dominican flag.
The Dominican Republic shares an island with Haiti, and is also located near Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Cuba. The capital is Santo Domingo, located in the southeast portion of the country. The Dominican Republic is showered with untamed nature, drawing many adventurers. In fact, so many like the country that the Dominican Republic suffers from overpopulation. Despite the increased amounts of tourism, the country still suffers from poverty. The forests are cut to produce firewood and building materials. Unfortunately, the productive soil of the Dominican Republic is often washed away into the ocean by heavy rains. However, the country still maintains a gorgeous site to witness, even offshore, including the gathering of humpback whales during the breeding season. The country is surely beautiful beyond its apparent environmental statistics.
The Dominicans major issue today is that they are focused in multilateral, regional and bilateral issues. In an effort to deepen bilateral trade ties the US-Dominican Republic Trade and Investment Council focused on multilateral, 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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