yeah, and we have Texans and Carolinians, New Englanders ... the list can go on and on.
Here. Is. The. Newsflash...
R u ready???...
Boricuas are AMERICAN.
True, Puerto Rico holds a unique position; citizenship in our Nation comes from an act of Congress, and thus has applied to any American born on the island. Is that citizenship somehow different from you & I (you ARE a native-American, I assume???) who were born here?
You may believe so, I don't. In fact, your distinction based on geographic origin is just the good old socialist "let's define 'em by what makes 'em different" group model.
Hyphenated Americanism doesn't work, dude! Haven't you ever read what Teddy Roosevelt said about this same thing 100 years ago?
CGVet58
(USCG, 1976-2000, full-blooded AMERICANO con raizes de Acero Boricua)
The Boricua are not CULTURALLY American. I have been to PR three times, talked with many folks, from all social classes down there, and have observed Puerto Ricans who have moved from the island to the mainland.
PR's watch Univision/Telemundo (y las novelas), love to dance salsa, speak Spanish, THINK Latin. In other words, not American. As I stated before, the kids I went to college with from San Ignacio Prep all told me that they realized that they WEREN'T Americans/Gringos once they actually came to live on the mainland.
Puerto Rico has more culturally in common with Cuba (albeit with less immigration from Spain the last century) and DR than it does with the United States. You can say all you want about a dollar currency, American fast food joints, and consumerism, but Panama has all of those and no Panamanian would consider themselves an American.
What I believe will matter when I write to my senators and rep telling them I have no interest in having Puerto Rico become a state.
I have no time for them, Puerto Rico joining the US does nothing to benefit us and everything to benefit them.
I say cut them loose and cut our losses at the same time.
They sealed their fate when they chased the Navy away. Since then I could not care less what happens to it and have no interest in having it become a state.
Not only was I born here but my family helped make this country what it is by having someone fight in the revolutionary war, civil war and WWII.
We have enough leftist crybabies, we don't need any more.