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    Originally posted by sonofisis View Post
    Great! So let's get started, shall we?

    sorry, its hard to be technical when you're raised on 3 languages.

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      Originally posted by 2501 View Post
      sorry, its hard to be technical when you're raised on 3 languages.
      So "technically", maybe you should get off my nuts as talking to you is like communicating with a rock. Sorry, I don't speak Cave man.

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        Originally posted by sonofisis View Post
        So "technically", maybe you should get off my nuts as talking to you is like communicating with a rock. Sorry, I don't speak Cave man.
        seriously sono i wanna like you your a smart guy[it seems]but you tend to be overtly race elitist,why?i am sure me and you can agree on somethings.seriously.don't be bitter.

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          Originally posted by sonofisis View Post
          So "technically", maybe you should get off my nuts as talking to you is like communicating with a rock. Sorry, I don't speak Cave man.
          yet you're almost 10 post deep in conversation with me. man, its really easy to get on your nerves. its just the net!

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            Originally posted by tito yuca View Post
            That's true for Puerto Ricans in the U.S., but not for the ones here. White Puerto Ricans can be extremely snnobish and prejudiced, and even darker-skinned Puerto Ricans deny their color and race. In the 2000 census it came out that 87% of PRicans describe themselves as white, what does that say? In the U.S. Puerto Ricans consider nationality to be a race because Americans lump all latinos together in the "Latino" group because they consider us inferior to American whites, but different from American blacks. So people consider "Puerto Rican" and "Mexican" races, but for those of PR or Mex blood, they do it as a means of solidarity between each other and in order to have an identity and something to belong to in a system that sees them ass second class.

            And as for this whole "is PR a country or not" thing, the island is U.S. PROPERTY but definitely not a PART of the U.S. TECHNICALLY (by government definition) it's a U.S. territory, but the language, culture, location, traditions and history we have more than make us a country of our own. We are U.S. property because they seized control of us from Spain, who invaded us in the 15th century. While many aspects of daily life have undoubtedly been influenced by the U.S., this is still a separate entity as far as culture is concerned.
            Well ,that's no suprise to me because if you look not only in PR but around the world, "whitness" or "being light skinned" is a sign of beauty. In Mexico, people are extrememly racist, talking down and treating poorly the dark skinned people which happen to be the indigineous people. There are even "Black Mexican's" in Mexico and have been pushed to a small part of the country and after the turn of the century would be stopped in the streets and forced to recite the Mexican anthem to see if they were really Mexican or not.

            I know people now view beauty as being different and that's a good thing but many people around the world still view blond hair or blue eyes as the most beautiful feature a person could have. There is alot fo racism in latin american countries and that's not going to change for a while.

            As far as PR being or not being a country, it's NOT a country, it's a common wealth. PR could not sustain itself economicaly or militarily if it weren't for the US. I'm not trying to dissrespect PR's but it's the truth. PR would end up just like Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Haiti ect ect if it weren't for US help. Many times have PR politicians tryed to make PR independent of the US and the very people in PR have voted against it because they know better.

            PR will never be independent and it has more chance of becoming a state than it does a country.

            Every state has it's own flag and anthem so that has nothing to do with it. The PR flag is a replica of the Cuban Flag but inverted. I will quote some historical data:

            "Some sources document Francisco Gonzalo Marin with presenting a Puerto Rican flag prototype in 1895 for adoption by the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Committee in New York City. Marín has since been credited with the flag's design. However, Antonio Vélez Alvarado probably deserves the credit. On June 12, 1892, Vélez was at his apartment at 219 Twenty-Third Street in Manhattan, when he stared at a Cuban flag for a few minutes, and then took a look at the blank wall in which it was being displayed. Vélez suddenly perceived an optical illusion, in which he perceived the image of the Cuban flag with the colors in the flag's triangle and stripes inverted. Almost immediately he visited a nearby merchant, Domingo Peraza, from whom he bought some crepe paper to build a crude prototype. He later displayed his prototype in a dinner meeting at his neighbor's house, where the owner, Micaela Dalmau vda. de Carreras, had invited José Martí as a guest. Martí was pleasantly impressed by the prototype, and made note of it in a newspaper article published in the Cuban revolutionary newspaper Patria, published on July 2 of that year. Acceptance of the prototype was slow in coming, but grew with time. Marín, who decided to have a proper flag sewn based on the prototype, presented the new flag's design in New York's "Chimney Corner Hall" a gathering place of independence advocates two years later. The flag "Puerto Rican Flag" (with the light blue triangle) soon came to symbolize the ideals of the Puerto Rican independence movement."

            Puerto Rican people have a great culture and sence of pride but let's not get it twisted in thinking they could be what they are if it weren't for the US. That would be an insult to the rest of Latin America to think so.

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              Originally posted by cuauhtemoc1496 View Post
              Well ,that's no suprise to me because if you look not only in PR but around the world, "whitness" or "being light skinned" is a sign of beauty. In Mexico, people are extrememly racist, talking down and treating poorly the dark skinned people which happen to be the indigineous people. There are even "Black Mexican's" in Mexico and have been pushed to a small part of the country and after the turn of the century would be stopped in the streets and forced to recite the Mexican anthem to see if they were really Mexican or not.

              I know people now view beauty as being different and that's a good thing but many people around the world still view blond hair or blue eyes as the most beautiful feature a person could have. There is alot fo racism in latin american countries and that's not going to change for a while.

              As far as PR being or not being a country, it's NOT a country, it's a common wealth. PR could not sustain itself economicaly or militarily if it weren't for the US. I'm not trying to dissrespect PR's but it's the truth. PR would end up just like Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Haiti ect ect if it weren't for US help. Many times have PR politicians tryed to make PR independent of the US and the very people in PR have voted against it because they know better.

              PR will never be independent and it has more chance of becoming a state than it does a country.

              Every state has it's own flag and anthem so that has nothing to do with it. The PR flag is a replica of the Cuban Flag but inverted. I will quote some historical data:

              "Some sources document Francisco Gonzalo Marin with presenting a Puerto Rican flag prototype in 1895 for adoption by the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Committee in New York City. Marín has since been credited with the flag's design. However, Antonio Vélez Alvarado probably deserves the credit. On June 12, 1892, Vélez was at his apartment at 219 Twenty-Third Street in Manhattan, when he stared at a Cuban flag for a few minutes, and then took a look at the blank wall in which it was being displayed. Vélez suddenly perceived an optical illusion, in which he perceived the image of the Cuban flag with the colors in the flag's triangle and stripes inverted. Almost immediately he visited a nearby merchant, Domingo Peraza, from whom he bought some crepe paper to build a crude prototype. He later displayed his prototype in a dinner meeting at his neighbor's house, where the owner, Micaela Dalmau vda. de Carreras, had invited José Martí as a guest. Martí was pleasantly impressed by the prototype, and made note of it in a newspaper article published in the Cuban revolutionary newspaper Patria, published on July 2 of that year. Acceptance of the prototype was slow in coming, but grew with time. Marín, who decided to have a proper flag sewn based on the prototype, presented the new flag's design in New York's "Chimney Corner Hall" a gathering place of independence advocates two years later. The flag "Puerto Rican Flag" (with the light blue triangle) soon came to symbolize the ideals of the Puerto Rican independence movement."

              Puerto Rican people have a great culture and sence of pride but let's not get it twisted in thinking they could be what they are if it weren't for the US. That would be an insult to the rest of Latin America to think so.
              there you go talking out your ass again,you know jack ****,you go on wikipedia and you think you know.

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                Originally posted by cuauhtemoc1496 View Post
                Well ,that's no suprise to me because if you look not only in PR but around the world, "whitness" or "being light skinned" is a sign of beauty. In Mexico, people are extrememly racist, talking down and treating poorly the dark skinned people which happen to be the indigineous people. There are even "Black Mexican's" in Mexico and have been pushed to a small part of the country and after the turn of the century would be stopped in the streets and forced to recite the Mexican anthem to see if they were really Mexican or not.

                I know people now view beauty as being different and that's a good thing but many people around the world still view blond hair or blue eyes as the most beautiful feature a person could have. There is alot fo racism in latin american countries and that's not going to change for a while.

                As far as PR being or not being a country, it's NOT a country, it's a common wealth. PR could not sustain itself economicaly or militarily if it weren't for the US. I'm not trying to dissrespect PR's but it's the truth. PR would end up just like Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Haiti ect ect if it weren't for US help. Many times have PR politicians tryed to make PR independent of the US and the very people in PR have voted against it because they know better.

                PR will never be independent and it has more chance of becoming a state than it does a country.

                Every state has it's own flag and anthem so that has nothing to do with it. The PR flag is a replica of the Cuban Flag but inverted. I will quote some historical data:

                "Some sources document Francisco Gonzalo Marin with presenting a Puerto Rican flag prototype in 1895 for adoption by the Puerto Rican Revolutionary Committee in New York City. Marín has since been credited with the flag's design. However, Antonio Vélez Alvarado probably deserves the credit. On June 12, 1892, Vélez was at his apartment at 219 Twenty-Third Street in Manhattan, when he stared at a Cuban flag for a few minutes, and then took a look at the blank wall in which it was being displayed. Vélez suddenly perceived an optical illusion, in which he perceived the image of the Cuban flag with the colors in the flag's triangle and stripes inverted. Almost immediately he visited a nearby merchant, Domingo Peraza, from whom he bought some crepe paper to build a crude prototype. He later displayed his prototype in a dinner meeting at his neighbor's house, where the owner, Micaela Dalmau vda. de Carreras, had invited José Martí as a guest. Martí was pleasantly impressed by the prototype, and made note of it in a newspaper article published in the Cuban revolutionary newspaper Patria, published on July 2 of that year. Acceptance of the prototype was slow in coming, but grew with time. Marín, who decided to have a proper flag sewn based on the prototype, presented the new flag's design in New York's "Chimney Corner Hall" a gathering place of independence advocates two years later. The flag "Puerto Rican Flag" (with the light blue triangle) soon came to symbolize the ideals of the Puerto Rican independence movement."

                Puerto Rican people have a great culture and sence of pride but let's not get it twisted in thinking they could be what they are if it weren't for the US. That would be an insult to the rest of Latin America to think so.
                old man for real just shut the **** up u don't like ricans is obvious and don't come with that bull**** of my baby momma is boricua cuz that may be another ****ing lie u don't know **** about PR unless ur a historian is not the first time that ur trying to act to say "not to disrespect but its the truth" bull**** just shut the **** up and mind ur own business.

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                  Originally posted by NAPO View Post
                  old man for real just shut the **** up u don't like ricans is obvious and don't come with that bull**** of my baby momma is boricua cuz that may be another ****ing lie u don't know **** about PR unless ur a historian is not the first time that ur trying to act to say "not to disrespect but its the truth" bull**** just shut the **** up and mind ur own business.
                  then they say it's us that start it.everything undo said is true.
                  it's all of them that complain about pr,most pr's don't give a **** so

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                    Originally posted by tito yuca View Post
                    That's true for Puerto Ricans in the U.S., but not for the ones here. White Puerto Ricans can be extremely snnobish and prejudiced, and even darker-skinned Puerto Ricans deny their color and race. In the 2000 census it came out that 87% of PRicans describe themselves as white, what does that say? In the U.S. Puerto Ricans consider nationality to be a race because Americans lump all latinos together in the "Latino" group because they consider us inferior to American whites, but different from American blacks. So people consider "Puerto Rican" and "Mexican" races, but for those of PR or Mex blood, they do it as a means of solidarity between each other and in order to have an identity and something to belong to in a system that sees them ass second class.

                    And as for this whole "is PR a country or not" thing, the island is U.S. PROPERTY but definitely not a PART of the U.S. TECHNICALLY (by government definition) it's a U.S. territory, but the language, culture, location, traditions and history we have more than make us a country of our own. We are U.S. property because they seized control of us from Spain, who invaded us in the 15th century. While many aspects of daily life have undoubtedly been influenced by the U.S., this is still a separate entity as far as culture is concerned.

                    then i don't know what part of san juan u live because i used to live in PR just because i wasn't born there or i wasn't mainly there i know my heritage and ppl in PR towards RACE is not ans issue tito is darked skin why all PR came to salute him everytime he won his fights??? were are all one bro is PUERTO RICANS NOT BLACK OR WHITE OR TAN.

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                      Originally posted by ANTONIM View Post
                      then they say it's us that start it.everything undo said is true.
                      it's all of them that complain about pr,most pr's don't give a **** so
                      he needs to go to one of the univision forums there he could say his bull****.

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