Dear Jenny, I am Shadow and I wrote the statement that you objected to. "The status of who was upper class back then was not associated just with how much money you had; your family name in the archives of Haitian history was actually more important.Skin color or money were secondary assets.
So you see, marrying white is a new disease." I pasted my whole statement below so that you could reread the whole thing in context.
I will respond to your objection and explain why my statement stands and is accurate in another post so that this one is not too long.
"It's funny to hear Lavie and Dan Xavier talk about the fact that Haitian man and women prefer to marry whites.
What neither of you realize is how this is really a recent generational change.
Previously in Haiti, let's say my mother's generation, marriage to a white of any nationality met that you had taken a step down in the social ladder.
So the real members of the elite class would never dream of doing such a thing.
"White" to us was not the same as light skin, it actually met "foreigner." The only Haitians who married whites were Haitians from the lower social stratas.
The same was true of marriage to someone who was from the middle east.
People from there were also part of the lower social strata.
We called all of them (regardless of which part of the middle east they were from) "Syrien boite lan do." Regardless of how much money they had, they were not acceptable marriage partners for most upper class Haitian families.
That was when, in Haiti, upper class actually met something.
The status of who was upper class back then was not associated just with how much money you had; your family name in the archives of Haitian history was actually more important.
Skin color or money were secondary assets.
So you see, marrying white is a new disease."
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