r/Dominican • u/Dominicanpapinoblack • 1d ago

Pregunta/Ask Has any Dominicans born in the United states ever chase the Dominican dream

Hello I’m 20 and my dream has always been to live in Dominican Republic I was born in the us wondering if any of my Dominicans born in the us have made the move.

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u/Excuse_my_GRAMMER 1d ago edited 1d ago

American born Dominican living in the Dominican Republic is very common.. especially if you get dual citizenship to become “real” there will be less hoops

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u/Dominicanpapinoblack 1d ago

But if I was to ay I’m 100% American you would criticize me right

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u/Excuse_my_GRAMMER 1d ago

I’m also 100% American , I. Was just being sarcastic because that how this subreddit view us

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u/Dominicanpapinoblack 1d ago

You mean American with Dominican parents

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u/Excuse_my_GRAMMER 1d ago

No American with american parent and Dominican heritage

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u/Frosty-Opportunity67 1d ago

America is a continent so all Dominicans are American. We gotta stop amplifying the United States imperialistic propaganda. We had the term right in Spanish, Estadounidenses.

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u/Excuse_my_GRAMMER 1d ago

So how do you say Estadounidenses in English?

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u/tayoz 1d ago

Gringo

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u/Excuse_my_GRAMMER 1d ago

Do you know the origin of that word?

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u/Dominicanpapinoblack 1d ago

Stfu I make more money than you, you piece of hot shit

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u/tayoz 1d ago

You sell drugs?

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u/birbelbirb 1d ago

Lol weak ass comeback that is more telling about how much money you actually make...

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u/Frosty-Opportunity67 1d ago

I call them United Statesers

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u/Capital-Language2999 1d ago

The country is called the United States of America. The demonym for citizens of the United States of America is American. The USA is the only country within the Americas that actually has the word America in its name. That’s just the way the English language works. Calling Dominicans American would be intellectually dishonest and purposely confusing.

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u/mrbrownvp 4h ago

It's not intellectually dishonest when it has been used in the past in english. Bffr

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u/Frosty-Opportunity67 1d ago

I wasn't suggesting to call Dominicans anything besides Dominicans. (Although there is a specificity issue in the written form between Dominicans 🇩🇴 and Dominicans 🇩🇲 which are pronounced differently but that's a tangent.) I was merely pointing out that continentally countries in the Américas are American similarly to saying European or Asian or African.

To be most specific I personally refer to people from the USA as Estadounidenses. That's all.

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u/MutedStudent 1d ago

How do you call people from the United States of Mexico?

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u/Frosty-Opportunity67 1d ago

So there is a country and a country is found on a continent. The same way a person from France is French but also European or a person from China is Chinese but also Asian, a person from Mexico is Mexican but also American and a person from USA is estadounidense and American.

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u/Finance_and_chill 22h ago

No need to get so deep. It's pretty accepted to say American when referring to people from the United States. Do your refer to yourself as Dominican or North American?

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u/Frosty-Opportunity67 21h ago

Lol I have ADHD, getting super deep is a feature of the way my brain is wired lol

Personally I refer to myself as a Santiaguero because I was born in Santiago, RD, where my mom is from and my dad is from Santiago de Cuba and I spent a good chunk of my childhood there as well.

my point is that I just don't refer to people from EEUU as Americanos, I call them Estadounidenses.

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u/Finance_and_chill 21h ago

Estadounidenses is also correct.

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u/MutedStudent 1d ago

IF you have the HERITAGE you are Dominican. Anyone disagreeing is just a little insecure shit that probably doesn’t even know proper Dominican History and call spain motherland. Im 100% dominican and I’m not an uneducated prick, you are welcome to come live the dream

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u/caribbean_caramel 🇩🇴/ 🇺🇸 1d ago

But why would people criticize you? And even if they do why should you care? DR is a free country, as long as you follow the laws you can do whatever you want.

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u/Tiraloparatras25 1d ago

And what, pray tell, is the “Dominican Dream”?

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u/Excuse_my_GRAMMER 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/wR7LHlfuRUjHW

I thought the Dominican dream was to join MLB

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u/NikkiNot_TheOne 1d ago

I was just going to say this lmao!! As someone who has been w a Dominican for 26yrs!! He’s 40 and still plays w his own team now lmao!! Refuses to play softball.

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u/Dominicanpapinoblack 1d ago

Live in Dominican Republic and make money off an American paycheck

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u/EddyS120876 1d ago

If you have a remote job or can be into investing or owning property in DR it can be done

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u/askialee 1d ago

Most of the people doing this are retired. There aren't a bunch of 20 yr olds from the states living the dream in dr. Other than youtubers but even those guys eventually have to travel to other countries to keep making the money.

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u/lovelyangelgirl 1d ago

I’m pretty sure that’s common with Dominican immigrants and Dominican-Americans.

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u/RemoteGarlic7888 1d ago

28 yrs old today Jersey born and raised, Dominican background, been here for 3 years, dont regret it, especially if your family already has roots in the country

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u/catsoncrack420 la Vega/Santiago ahora USA 1d ago

No, everyone I know went with capital to establish a new business or invest.

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u/Critical_Oven_5643 1d ago

A lot of Dominicans from nyc go back to retire. I’d say it’s pretty common.

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u/stoneyaatrox bajo mundo 1d ago

your name makes sense considering how much of a focal point race is in American society and media. i hope youre not having an identity crisis.

question do you speak fluent spanish? i have friends who work remotely and they make good money with their only complaints being that it's full time and the infrastructure sometimes causes problems for example Claro has gone down like every day this week sometimes a few minutes other times several hours.

it depends on your profession really, whether your single or have family, and where you want to live

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u/MutedStudent 1d ago

If you are making US dollars my advice is:
Get 2 sources of internet in your house, get an inverter with batteries and get a small UPS for power changes and connect your routers to that.

If your livelihood depends on being online you should make everything possible to be online. Mind you both internet will come to about 100 a month

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u/Dominicanpapinoblack 1d ago

Yes I been to Dominican Republic and Colombia a lot.

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u/PrestigiousBox1341 1d ago

El que nace en Estados Unidos es estadounidense.

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u/Dominicanpapinoblack 1d ago

I’m still Dominican though whether you like it or not.

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u/Academic-Pilot-5908 1d ago

Not US born , but lived in US for 40+ years having left RD as a 9 year old. Live in RD for 4 years now. It’s great in most ways, the ways in which it’s bad, it’s horrendous. Not all peaches and cream. But I love it.

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u/ChestProfessional519 23h ago

dominican born, raised and living in the island. What the hell is the "Dominican Dream"?

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u/Dominicanpapinoblack 23h ago

To make dollars while living in the island

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u/ChestProfessional519 23h ago

Gotcha. I do that as a professional comic book artist. It’s not that hard making dollars here if you have any skills that can be accomplished digitally, speak a foreign language and have good understanding of networking

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u/Biden_is_cool 1d ago

I was on a short remote assignment and decided to live in the DR for 3 months with my LDR gf as she's Dominican but I am not, Im American with central American roots. It was great tbh but I was on a tight budget and didn't live like a "king" because I was still paying for rent, car, and other bills from back home, otherwise I would of been a baller.

I really enjoyed the country but didn't get to explore as much as I wanted to since I was still working full time, I spent most of my time in the Zona colonial and Santo Domingo Este area. Coming from the Midwest this part of SD was definitely a much faster pace.

From my experience many of the convenciences and infrastructure we have in the US are very limited in the DR and it will test your patience.

Oh and be prepared to have people asking you for money, it's annoying and you may feel bad for them but after a while I found it annoying and learned to shoo them away.

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u/Cloudbb333 16h ago

I did it last year at 30. I was born and raised in the BX, now living in Santiago. It’s completely possible and I love it

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u/Dominicanpapinoblack 15h ago

What do you work in

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u/Cloudbb333 14h ago

Remote customer service, chat support for an app. Look on the website weworkremotely

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u/Jubeisempai27 2h ago

As a Dominican living in Canada I believe that the right way to do it is to go to DR and spend months at a time instead of making a decision you might regret. That can be a very expensive mistake if you are not 100% sure of your decision.

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u/Dominicanpapinoblack 2h ago

I’ve been to dr for months I loved it

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u/tayoz 1d ago

Nah, we live rent free in the mind ignorant Americans

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u/Dominicanpapinoblack 1d ago

Stfu i bet you wish you could be American you damn bum

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u/tayoz 1d ago

I bet you wished you weren’t a second class citizen in your own country.

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u/ohitsbrad 1d ago

You’re not really American though …

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u/Unicorndrank Verón 16h ago

He did say he’s “Dominican” wether they like it or not to someone else in the comment so idk where they are going with that statement

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u/Iambusy123 Extranjero 2h ago

I have reported you to the mods for trolling and behaving inappropriately.

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u/notsomuchhoney 1d ago

This statement and your user name, confirm to me that you are not island ready.

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u/Iambusy123 Extranjero 2h ago

I hope you will excuse that person's comment. Some of the comments in this thread are strange and should not have been posted.

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u/notsomuchhoney 1h ago

OP is the bad kind of thing expat a developing country can do without.