There are haitian communities in other parts of canada, the united states and other countries as well. Haiti's population is mostly of african descent (5% are of mixed african and other ancestry), though people of many different ethnic and national backgrounds have settled and impacted the country, such as poles (polish legion), jews, arabs (from the arab diaspora), chinese, indians, spanish, germans (18th century and world war i), italians, and french, most marrying into the majority black.
Heinl, robert debs, and nancy gordon heinl. The chart above is intended to demonstrate the full extent of african ancestry among my haitian survey participants. A small proportion of haiti's people (5 percent) are of mixed heritage or white known as (les mulatres). As a haitian i remember to hair washing every every 2 weeks with hot oil treatments and weekly braiding with some kind hair grease concoction that included lâhuile mascreti, moelle de boeuf, palmerâs hair success (which is the equivalent of elasta qp mango butter) or somebodyâs brand hair food).