33 Facts About Dominican Americans

Dominican Americans are Americans who trace their ancestry to the Dominican Republic.

Dominican Americans arrived on Manhattan in 1613 from his home in Santo Domingo, which makes him the first non-Native American person to spend substantial time in the island.

Dominican Americans became the first Dominican, the first Hispanic and the first person with European and African ancestry to settle in what is present day New York City.

Today, emigration from the Dominican Americans Republic remains high, facilitated by the social networks of now-established Dominican Americans communities in the United States.

Until about the early 2000s, the majority of immigration from the Dominican Americans Republic came from the Cibao region and "La Capital".

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However now, Dominican Americans immigrants are arriving to the United States from many parts of the country.

Almost half of all the Dominican Americans today arrived since the 1990s, especially in the early part of that decade.

Dominican Americans are the fifth-largest Hispanic American group, after Mexican Americans, Stateside Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans and Salvadoran Americans.

Dominican Americans have a Latin Caribbean culture similar to Puerto Ricans and Cubans, they have very high intermarriage and procreation rates with Puerto Ricans.

In contrast to Puerto Ricans who have high overall intermarriage rates with non Latinos, Dominican Americans have the lowest intermarriage and reproduction rates of all major Latino groups with populations over 500, 000.

Majority of Dominican Americans marry and create families with other Dominican Americans, smaller numbers with other Latinos primarily Puerto Ricans as stated earlier.

Dominican Americans tend to be heavily focused on issues in Dominican Republic, rather than that of the United States, with many having intentions of returning.

Significant number of Dominican Americans are young, first-generation immigrants without a higher education, since many have roots in the country's rural areas.

Second-generation Dominican Americans are more educated than their first-generation counterparts, a condition reflected in their higher incomes and employment in professional or skilled occupations and more of them pursuing undergraduate education and graduate degrees.

In New York City, Dominican Americans entrepreneurs have carved out roles in several industries, especially the bodega and supermarket and taxi and black car industries.

Dr Eduardo J Sanchez was the Commissioner of Health for the state of Texas from 2001 to 2006, and Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez, of Puerto Rican and Dominican descent, held her post as New York Secretary of State from 2007 to 2010.

Dominican Americans became the first formerly undocumented American to be elected to Congress.

Dominican Americans was born in Yamasa, Republica Dominicana in 1957 and died from cancer in July 2005.

Dominican Americans lived during the diaspora, in which Dominican authors wrote about nostalgia that Dominican immigrants experienced in New York.

Dominican Americans's is the winner 2018 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the Boston Globe-Hornbook Award Prize for Best Children's Fiction, and the Pura Belpre Award.

Dominican Americans's received her bachelor's degree at The George Washington University in performing arts, and she received her MFA in creative writing at the University of Maryland.

Dominican Americans have increasingly made a presence in the financial industry.

Traditional Dominican cuisine has translated well to the United States as Dominican Americans have opened reputable restaurants throughout the diasporic communities.

Dominican Americans take pride in their food from their homeland and they use it as a symbol in times of celebration.

Some Dominican Americans are non-religious, while a few others practice African diasporic religions like Dominican Vudu.

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Designer Oscar de la Renta, born in the Dominican Americans Republic, was one of the most recognized names in the fashion industry.

Dominican Americans, there is a disparity between men and women in terms of access and ability to complete education.

Dominican Americans's obtained her medical degree from the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in 1876.

When she died in 1933, the Dominican Americans Republic declared a nine-day period of national mourning with flags flown at half-mast.

Dominican Americans is widely regarded as the father of the medical specialty of neuroradiology, having co-authored the first textbook of this specialty and founded both the American Society of Neuroradiology and its journal, of which he served for several years as editor.

Dominican Americans have made great strides in the field of baseball, the community's favored sport.

Dominican Americans was the highest-paid player in Major League Baseball, and one of the most famous athletes in the United States.

The larger portion of MLB players of Dominican Americans origin immigrated from the Dominican Americans Republic, number in the hundreds, and count among them Robinson Cano, Jose Bautista, Rafael Soriano, David Ortiz, Albert Pujols, Edwin Encarnacion, Hanley Ramirez, Manny Ramirez, Bartolo Colon and Hall of Fame members Juan Marichal, Vladimir Guerrero and Pedro Martinez.