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Presents the reply of the researchers to the commentary of Wolf Roder on their paper about the settlement of Sosúa, Dominican Republic. Inadequacy of Roder's analysis and reasoning on the situation described in Soú Inaccuracy of the critic's definition of symbiosis; Appreciation of the researchers for the interest of Roder in liberation movement.

Comments on a research paper about the settlement at Sosúa, Dominican Republic by Richard Symanski and Nancy Burley that describes a phenomena which has led to major violent crises in the world. Inappropriateness of the authors' adoption of the viewpoint of the settler minority and description of an exploitative situation as one of symbiosis; Failure of the authors to place their case study in a broader context of hypotheses; Exhibition of ethnocentric blinders in the paper.