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\u201cI’ve always heard this term, \u2018indio,\u2019 but I never knew why they called me it. I’m like the beautiful brown one, I don\u2019t know.\u201d Pablo says, reflecting on his Dominican family, where his mom\u2019s side of the family was a lot lighter than him. He makes connections between the prevalence of colorism in the D.R. and dictator Trujillo, whose administration is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Haitians in the 20th century. \u201cHe created this arbitrary term called \u2018indio\u2019 and made it a race category, a way to differentiate Haitians and Dominicans in a very racist way. Haitian meaning black. Indio, which was an in between, like, you\u2019re tan. And then, white.\u201d He recounts a story where, as a child, he witnessed a taxi driver in the D.R. refer to a dark skinned man on the street as \u201cHaitian;\u201d he asked his mom how he knew the man was Haitian, garnering the response \u201coh, because he’s darker.\u201d This further prompted Pablo to ask about a dark skinned woman who is close to the family, \u201cisn\u2019t Glenis Dominican? \u2018Yeah but that\u2019s different!\u2019 As a kid I was like, I don\u2019t understand how you guys are differentiating these people.\u201d Indio was \u201cglorified because it meant you weren’t Haitian, which to them was like the worst thing because of the dictator embedding that and stereotypes into their heads.\u201d Growing up, Pablo felt certain pressures about his hair, which was much curlier than his family\u2019s, and kept short by his mother until high school. He says \u201cI would always hear my family be like \u2018y ese paj\u00f3n,\u2019 which means like big puffy ball but with a negative connotation,\u201d a relatable topic of discussion among him and many other Dominicans. \u201cHearing that made me think that curly hair was bad. But having my friend group who was super positive about their different cultures, I think that really helped me accept my hair,\u201d as well as, \u201cbeing able to notice things about Dominican culture that are not so great.\u201d He points out a trend of students grouping up based off skin color and general appearance in high school, \u201cwe were light skin, but we were lightskin POC, so we were still different from the white kids, we conglomerated together because we understood each other.\u201d<\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"

\u201cI’ve always heard this term, \u2018indio,\u2019 but I never knew why they called me it. I’m like the beautiful brown one, I don\u2019t know.\u201d Pablo…<\/p>\n

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