The final fight: Post 4

Summary#4
Outside of Hispaniola, Haitians and Dominicans are met on a different battleground: New York. Deep in New York City, Dominican immigrants and their Americans children live in close knit neighborhoods and try to blend their island lifestyle with the fast pace lifestyle of New York. In these neighborhoods Dominican drug dealers are shot and killed every year. There was a point in time hundreds of caskets were sent to the Dominican Republic all filled with the bodies of young teenage gangbangers. New York, as the rest of the United States, is considered a holy land too many Dominicans and Haitians. This is quite obvious with thousands of Haitians and Dominicans alike constantly immigrating to the United States.
Summary#5
Back home, the three worlds collide: the United States, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic swirls around in the island of Hispaniola. The three worlds are constantly butting heads on political, economic, and social issues. But, there is a time when the three entities’ lines are blurred. That time is called carnival. Carnival is time period in Hispaniola where both Haiti and the Dominican Republic share a few days of dancing and having fun. The carnival is actually quit wild; all the lines drawn before are crossed. There is an explosion of sexual rejuvenation and loud music blared. This time period is the only time all the cultures within the island come, unite, and act civilized, but after the carnival all of that goes back to the same old.
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#4: "'Even though we live here, we invest back there' 210 "
#5: "They are here in the cane fields that have long represented the center of conflict between the Dominican Republic and Haiti. The three worlds have fused into one (Wucker 251)."
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#4: As for Haitians and Dominicans alike, we live here, but our family and national ties are strong. I personally known that my father lived in the US for years after i was born and sent money back to Haiti. This is the same for alot of immigrant families, they live in the United Sates, but send money back to their country and pay attintion to what is going on there.
#5:It seems the only time that Haiti, USA, and the Dominican Republic can finaly coexist is on the days of carnival. The violence and conflict between the three groups can be easily forgotten on the days without rules. There is an obvious fusion of the culrtures; as Haitians, Dominicans, and American-Haitan and Dominicans, come together to celebrate a day without rules, conflict, or political limitations.