Also..........the whole concept of mestizo culture...........i think is exaggerated.....................i don't think the Indians mixed as much as people think they did................would u want to mix with a race of people..........take the Spaniards..............who took your chief and raped his wife in front him?  They did that to the Taino...................they destroyed the Aztec culture in Mexico....................the Incas in Peru...........mass murder....................................yes, some mixed............but i bet most did not...............



 hundreds fell in fighting with the Spaniards, while untold numbers fled to remote regions beyond colonial control. In time, many Taíno women married conquistadors, combining the genes of the New World and Old World to create a new mestizo population, which took on Creole characteristics with the arrival of African slaves in the 16th century