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I know many of you take pride in your Taino ancestors, who were unfortunately wiped out by famine, disease and murder brought by the Spanish. My question to you is and I have always wondered this: Out of Puerto Ricans, Cubans and Dominicans, which group has the highest concentration of people with Taino features? My guess was always Puerto Ricans. To me most Cubans are White, most Dominicans are mulatto, but many Puerto Ricans I encounter have these indigenous features that I believe are Taino. I do not want to turn this question into which group is Whiter or Blacker, I just want to know which island has the highest ratio of Taino descendants if that is even possible to determine. Many of us would've loved to see what the Taino civilization and language looked and sounded like in it's pure form and with no intervention from Europeans. What did Tainos really look like? Did they look a lot like your present day brown-skinned Puerto Ricans and Dominicans? or they looked more like the indigenous people from South America?.

Kevin7 · Accepted Answer

People in all 3 nations Puerto rico,Cuba and the dominican Republic do have people with strong  Amerindian features or significants amounts of Taino or other Amerindian D.N.A. A person can have a large amount of Taino D.N.A without looking Taino .

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cubans....are mostly white with a lil bit of taino im dominican but you really cant see any taino in me but alot dominicans have african spanish and a lil taino features and i think puerto ricans have the highest taino especially the triqueÃ±os you can really see the mixture in them

Anonymous · Answer

American Indians are American Indians and they all belong to the same race,do basically they all possess the same racial features,there is no real need to wonder what Tainos looked like since there exists plenty of full blooded American Indians in any part of the Americas(Cherokee,Mayans,Tarahumaras,Navajo,etc).

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i would assume from what ive seen on stone painting left from the maya; and other latin american pre columbian peoples; since the art of a pre contact people sometimes is based on the phenotypes of the society at that time; i assume the original premixed indigenous latin american; is said to be dark haired,dark eyed, an average of 5'5'' in height,and swarthy to dark brown in complexion, high cheekbones and straight hair are common phenotypes; so to be honest most of these groups and other latinos in many areas have at least one person in their family that has at least two of these phenotypes; so it more depends on the individual rather than the group/family

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