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Dominicans are not inclined to highlight African and Haitian influences on their culture.

As ethno-musicologist Martha Davis points out, many Dominican scholars " have, at the least, ignored African influence in Santo Domingo.

At the worst, they have bent over backwards to convince themselves and their readers of the one hundred percent Hispanic content of their culture.

This is not an uncommon Latin American reaction to the inferiority complex produced by centuries of Spanish colonial domination ".