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re-title section: "Haiti's Contribution to the World"/NPOV tag

I don't think this section title or the way it is currently written are in line with Wikipedia policy on neutrality of content. Fixing the actual language should be fairly easy, but I'm not sure what a better name for the section would be, anyone got any ideas? Beeblebrox (talk) 03:16, 12 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How about Haiti's Impact on World Affairs? The current title rather gives away the game. Haiti's two hundred years of history are uniformly embarrassing, and one longs to find something positive. The article seems to claim that refugee communities elsewhere in the world are a "contribution," but when a country routinely forces its best and brightest to flee it's hardly something to brag about. I'm surprised that Haiti's important 20th century painters weren't mentioned. But Haiti's greatest influence on world affairs would be the Louisiana Purchase, which ultimately made a world power of the United States. Haiti's unexpected military successes (coupled, it is true, with yellow fever) had made it Napoleon's Vietnam. He decided that a North American empire would be much more trouble than it was worth. America, hoping to buy New Orleans for about ten million, was astonished to be offered half the continent for five million more, without a fight. We have Haiti's freedom fighters to thank for that. So for the section, how about Haiti's Impact on World Affairs, or something similar? Profhum (talk) 09:54, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Smells racist

Claiming "the first" "the only" slave revolution in more than one occcations smells racist. First of all there are many revolutions and rebellions in both medieval ages and later. Best example is Mameluk rule in Egypt almost all the rulers were rebel slaves till Ottoman era. Is it just because Circassians are European slaves of Semitic Arabs, rather than African slaves of European French? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.103.213.221 (talk) 20:22, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Motto ?

According to the French wiki page about Haiti, which cites reference (contrary to the English page), the motto is the same as France's : "Liberte, egalite, fraternite". The one cited here ("L'union fait la force") is actually the one from Belgium.. All of this sounds quite disturbing, isn't it ?