I went to college in PR in the early 70’s. I had gone to high school on the mainland at the height of anti-Americanism during the war. I found far more true-blue America-backers on campus in PR than here.
Yes, there was an Independence faction that was anti-American, but they were small in number compared to the pro American kids. I am not Puerto Rican looking, but I was not discriminated against in the least in PR. Fond memories of PR and its people.
Thanks for the agreement. Now let me tell you a funny story from Vietnam. Our site, Portcall, had no Vietnamese Air Force VNAF personnel working there. Many of the others sites did. The airmen and NCOs in the surveillance section would talk to other at distant sites to pass air traffic. When they couldn’t understand them our airmen or NCOs would say, “Put a GI on, Put a GI on” thinking they were talking with a VNAF. One night we were passing traffic to Paris control at Tan Son Nhut. The airman couldn’t understand the person on the other end of the line. So he made the comment above. The person on the other end of the line was a LTC from Puerto Rico working in the Air Defense Artillery (ADA) section and in the U.S. Army. His response was, “I am a GI you son-of-a-bitch!” After that our airmen were much more careful about using that term.