Cultural Identity and Diversity Day in Dominican Republic

The constant confrontations that humanity has experienced have led to the need to create legislation, worldwide, for the promotion and protection of those rights inherent to the human person. Although the Universal System for the Protection of Human Rights was born within the United Nations Organization, with the signing, on June 26, 1945, of the Charter of the United Nations, the recognition of human dignity dates back to the years of the colonization of America. In this sense, doctrinarians such as Francisco de Vitoria, professor at the University of Salamanca, were among the first to question the behavior of the colonizers from the point of view of natural law and ius Gentium (the law of nations).

On October 12, formerly known as Columbus Day or Columbus Day, we celebrate the Day of Identity and Cultural Diversity in the Dominican Republic. Today Dominicans celebrate what constitutes them as a nation, what they have developed as a culture since their ancestors settled here. Today they remember their past, the root of their present identity. Today they reflect on their origins and how they have grown as a people since discovery. In the same way, they must reconsider the concept of Dominican identity.