I see. So let me pose a hypothetical situation to you: Let's say you've worked hard, really hard, to secure property and a home for you and your family. Let's say you've managed your investments wisely and are running a sound household. Let us also suppose that your next-door neighbor has squandered his earnings and has let his living standards and his property go to crap, to the point that it's an eyesore on the street you live on. Would it be fair for your neighbor to demand that you tear down the fence that seperates your properties and share your well managed but meager resources with someone who squandered them while you were doing what was expected of you? What would you do if said neighbor came to you demanding that you tear down the fence so that he can enjoy your flat screen since he has no TV at all and all that's in your refrigerator since his is bare? Would it be fair to you and your family to have pick up your neighbor's burdens? Would it be fair to your children to have to take food from their mouths to feed said neighbor? That is in essence what you are asking of the Dominican people as a whole.

Cib. If your brother ask you for a piece of bread would you throw him a stone instead?

A man who has two sons. The younger demands his share of his inheritance while his father is still living, and goes off to a distant country where he "waste[s] his substance with riotous living", and eventually has to take work as a swineherd clearly a low point, as swine are unclean. There he comes to his senses, and decides to return home and throw himself on his father's mercy, thinking that even if his father does disown him, that being one of his servants is still far better than feeding pigs. But when he returns home, his father greets him with open arms, and hardly gives him a chance to express his repentance; he kills a fatted calf to celebrate his return. The older brother resents the favored treatment of his faithless brother and complains of the lack of reward for his own faithfulness. From that statement above Cib I can tell that you are the older brother resenting the younger one or I should say the Dominicans resenting the Haitians because of their careless decisions over the years.

But the father responds tot he older brother is this and my response to you:

Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine. It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.

The same goes for us so we Haitians we messed up fine just like the prodigal son and we have realized our errors and now we are willing to return and work in the jobs that you Dominicans do not want, we are willing to work as servants in your homes, take your kids to school, clean your houses, do the construction labor work that you are not willing to do but yet you still resent us. We are not asking for you to give us anything we are willing to work for it but we face daily abuse from your policemen, soldiers, government agents and civilians alike so this has to be more than because of our history.

"From that statement above Cib I can tell that you are the older brother resenting the younger one or I should say the Dominicans resenting the Haitians because of their careless decisions over the years."

That comparison is not fitting because our peoples do not stem from a common source or have a benefactor in common as the brothers you mentioned do. You are working under the assumption that haitians and Dominicans are the same people. We're not. The cubans and the Puerto Ricans have much more in common culturally with the Dominican people then do haitians yet they are also not the same people as us. Do you get where I'm going with this?

Oh wow just because you both speaks spanish as a language does that qualify you as being more culturally connected them is that it? and yes DR and Haiti do share the same benefactors oh believe me we do and always has I think you ought to stop reading from Balaguer's page book if you think different.

"Oh wow just because you both speaks spanish as a language does that qualify you as being more culturally connected them is that it? "

It's just not language and if you think that's the only affinity that exists in the Spanish speaking caribbean then you obviously need to learn more about your neighbors. Besides, countries that share even less affinities with us save language are still more culturally compatible to the Dominican people then the haitian people would be. Language is a biggie when it comes to a common identity in case you haven't noticed and for anyone to say otherwise is just shear nonsense. My wife is from a Spanish speaking South American nation and I'm able to enjoy her family's warmth precisely because we all speak spanish. If my wife had been haitian I would never be able to form a bond with her non-english speaking relatives. It would be evident to all that we come from different nations and stem from different peoples.
Indeed there are certain affinities between our peoples but the affinities shared between the haitians and the Dominicans are shared by practically ALL island peoples. That doesn't mean that cuba and jaimaca should form a single nation. That sounds as ridiculous as DR and haiti forming a single nation.

If Cuba and Jamaica was on the same island I don't see the reason why not to form a single nation. I would have been in the best interest of both nations to form a single nation, single market, single currency etc.... The new world order will take place and like it or not there will be a single nation on the island of AYITI, KYSKEYA, BOYO whatever the hell you want to call it. I have more people supporting my sinister ideas than you do so like the saying goes resistance is futile. I try to reason with you but you seemed to be stuck on one thing DIVISION and I don't do DIVISIONS nor SUBTRACTIONS I only do ADDITIONS and MULTIPLICATIONS. So regardless if you don't want the Haitian Empire to ADD your side of island to it list then you leave us no choice but to MULTIPLY so greatly that we outnumber you and swallow you whole which is what is happening right now. Ball is in your court sucker. You can't stop the inevitable.

"Ball is in your court sucker. You can't stop the inevitable. "

I see. Fine then. Why don't your people give up their flag and all symbols pertaining to the haitian nation in particular, learn spanish and then maybe we can speak of unification. The entire island could become an expanded Dominican Republic. How does that vision for unification strike you?

I accept but only if you promise to return the island to its original name: AYITI.

"I try to reason with you but you seemed to be stuck on one thing DIVISION and I don't do DIVISIONS nor SUBTRACTIONS I only do ADDITIONS and MULTIPLICATIONS."

I'm stuck on me being me and you being you. I'm not going to change my ways to placate you and I'll be damned before I ask another human being to do the same for me. Besides, I think it's wonderful that the island I'm from can boast two vibrant cultures. I celebrate the diversity that exists on hispaniola (or whatever you want to call it) as should all the island's denizens. I think it would be a monumental shame to destroy one at the expense of the other. That haiti and DR exist are realities and certain people from both nations need to come to terms with that.

LOL That wasn't my proposal. So you would be willing to give up your language and your people's cultural patrimony for unification?