VERA LANDOLFI
JUAN MATA
DALISSA MONTES
Art Director PAOLA CABRERA
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MADE IN? PLATANO POWER OVER THE BIG APPLE
In the 1980s, immigration to the United States from the Dominican Republic rose to unprecedented levels. The number of Dominicans legally entering the United States between 1981 and 1990 was far greater than the number of Cubans: indeed, more Dominicans entered the United States in the last decade than any other Western Hemisphere national group except migrants from Mexico (Ruben G. Rumbaut, “The Americans: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples in the United States� in Americas: New Interpretive Essays, p.288).
Despite these numbers, however, Dominican immigrants have been relatively unstudied. Systematic research on the Dominican population in the United States is scarce, and newspaper and magazine coverage is sparse compared to other Caribbean immigrant groups (e.g., Cubans and Haitians). Those studies that do exist rely on data from the 1980 census or from studies conducted in the early or mid-1980s. Thus, upto-date, accurate, and complete information on Dominicans in the United States is difficult to find. As the raw data from the 1990 census is analyzed and studied, more work on this important immigrant group will result. Most Dominicans in the United States arrived after 1960. Over time, Dominicans living in the United States, especially in the Big Apple and Americans with precession in the Dominican Republic have established certain new intercultural mergers that today mark both cultures.
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“Let’s Fuck this Turkey Up”
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hanksgiving Day is traditionally a day for families and friends to get together for a special meal. Tha meal often includes a turkey, staffing, potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy, pumpkin pie, and vegetables. Thanksgiving Day is a time for many people to give thanks for what they have. Thanksgiving Day parades are held in some cities and towns on or around Thanksgiving Day. Some parades or festivities also mark the opening of the Christmas shopping season. Some people have a four-day weekend so it is a popular time for trips and to visit family and friends. Thanksgiving may not be a Dominican tradition, and it is certainly not a dominican holiday (meaning we don’t get a day off) BUT, Thanksgiving is still celebrated in the Dominican Republic – ay many different groups of people and in many different ways. Thanksgiving Day is a party of North American origin, but in many Latin American countries it is
celebrated, perhaps because of the great cultural influence of the United States, as in the case of the Dominican Republic. For this date - November 26 - families put on the table rice with fruits, lasagna, green salad and pumpkin pie. And, before tasting these dishes, they give thanks for the prosperity obtained during the year. Because in the country this celebration has been assumed as their own in a large social lays. For sure, as dominicans, Thanksgiving dishes are changed by other dominican traditions. Thangs giving Day is traditionally a day for families and friends to get together for a special meal. Tha meal often includes a turkey, staffing, pota-
toes, cranberry sauce, gravy, pumpkin pie, and vegetables. Thanksgiving Day is a time for many people to give thanks for what they have. Thanksgiving Day parades are held in some cities and towns on or around Thanksgiving Day. Some parades or festivities also mark the opening of the Christmas shopping season. Some people have a four-day weekend so it is a popular time for trips and to visit family and friends. Thanksgiving may not be a Dominican tradition, and it is certainly not a dominican holiday (meaning we don’t get a day off) BUT, Thanksgiving is still celebrated in the Dominican Republic – ay many different groups of people and in many different ways.
Thanksgiving Day is a party of North American origin, but in many Latin American countries it is celebrated, perhaps because of the great cultural influence of the United States, as in the case of the Dominican Republic. For this date - November 26 - families put on the ta ble rice with fruits, lasagna, green salad and pumpkin pie. And, before tasting these dishes, they give thanks for the prosperity obtained during the year.
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