White Dominican (Dominican Republic)
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| (2006 survey: 1.6 Million (13.6%) 1960: 490,000 (16.1%)) |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
| Chiefly in Espaillat, Santiago, Santiago Rodríguez, and Valverde; also in Distrito Nacional, Hermanas Mirabal, La Vega, and Monte Christi. | |
| Santiago Rodríguez | 67% |
| Valverde | 61% |
| Languages | |
| Dominican Spanish | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Roman Catholicism minority Protestantism |
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| Related ethnic groups | |
| Dominican people, Jewish Dominican, White Latin American, White Mexican, White Puerto Rican, White Haitian, White Hispanic and Latino Americans, Dominican American, | |
White (Spanish: Blanco, colloq. Rubio) is part of a racial classification system in the Dominican Republic.
The census bureau decided to not use racial classification in the 1970 census. The Dominican identity card (issued by the Junta Central Electoral) used to categorised people as yellow, white, Indian, and black, in 2011 the Junta planned to replace Indian with mulatto in a new ID card with biometric data that was under development, but in 2014 when it released the new ID card, it decided to just drop racial categorisation, the old ID card expired on 10 January 2015. The Ministry of Public Works and Communications uses racial classification in the driver’s license, being white, mestizo, mulatto, black, and yellow the categories used.
Originally applied to people of full or predominant European ancestry (who were considered or consider themselves white), it was also applied to the Middle Eastern immigrants of the early 20th century. They represented 7.79% of the Dominican population, according to the leaked 1996 electoral census based on Dominican identity cards data, or 16.1% of the Dominican population, according to the 1960 population census (the last population census in which race was queried).
Most white Dominicans are descendants from the Canary Islanders, Portuguese, mainland Spanish, and French settlers’ lineage in the Hispaniola island during colonial times, but many others are descendants from white Levantines,Italians,Dutchmen,Germans,Hungarians, Americans, and other nationalities who have migrated between the 19th and 20th centuries.
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