you make a good point, the only thing to keep them from being americanized is the hatred of black people/haitians. when i went to school, a lot of the dominican teens felt this strongly, and would regularly shit on haitians/blacks. which is weird because they conformed to their social standards. the hispanics in my school (during 2010 - 2014) wore jordans, true religion, prada (america's cup if they could afford it), and polo/rugby polo shirts with baseball hats (never the ones with the black underbrim, only green or grey underbrim). if you wore a hat in that school that had a black underbrim they would call you and it "black nasty". crazy.
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