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BY is under the impression that subcultures have emerged with the mainstream, and he's right. However, I would say that the purity of Puerto Rican diaspora has dispersed or migrated.
To where? Where are these "pure" Puerto Ricans to be found?
If you grabbed the iPod Touch or iPhone of the average Puerto Rican living in Florida or actual Boricuas on the island itself, what do you think you'd more likely find: Ray Baretto or Odd Future?
To where? Where are these "pure" Puerto Ricans to be found?
If you grabbed the iPod Touch or iPhone of the average Puerto Rican living in Florida or actual Boricuas on the island itself, what do you think you'd more likely find: Ray Baretto or Odd Future?
Nuyorican culture has been dead for about a decade or more now, I remember it freshly in my head when old timers used to dance on the street, folks used to blast freestyle and salsa from their car windows. Nuyorican hispanic culture is being quickkly replaced by other subcultures like in Williamsburg and Les for example, Nuyorican culture is being replaced by hipster subculture via gentrification. In much of the South Bronx many Puerto Ricans have either died out or moved to East Bronx mixing it up with the Guido culture or out of the state taking their culture with them. In much of the South Bronx one would hear Merengue, Bachata and all that sexy Dominican style stuff. It's not that its extinct its just that its less relevant now here in most of NYC. If your looking for Nuyrican culture try upstate NY, Western PA and Central or South Florida. The days of fowl chicken fights, the days of Puerto Rican Luncheonera, the days of Rican flags hanging over the streets of the South Bronx, East Harlem, LES, and Brooklyn. The days of free style blasting in cars, the days of button down tee shirts with an crucifix over the chest. All these things I have mentioned are over and part of an by gone era. Sometimes I think there are more Dominicans and Mexicans than Ricans these days.
I don't think so...........there are about 6 Puerto Ricans in Pittsburgh.
You do realize that the term "Pure Puerto Ricans" is an oxymoron, just like "Pure Americans." That being said, I get what you mean. And yes, the African American culture is dying in NYC also..
The culture is growing in Florida, it is waning in NYC, not just in raw numbers, but in percentages, influence, etc.
new york used to be the land of oppurtunity for blacks and brown.
now the whites are coming back to take everything. they call it
gentrification or whatever word they think of next.
In terms of other strong PR communities in Brooklyn and Queens, I'd say Cypress Hills still has a strong pop. and sections of Woodhaven and East Elmhurst as well still have a significant amount of PRs in the area to this day...
Well, some of the Boricans also do the shuttle between the NYC and the island. I remember vacationing in PR and quite a few of the locals spoke English with a tri-state accent (one said he was from NJ, one from Long Island).
I concur that the dispersal of Puerto Ricans to places other than NYC has been a factor. Cultures always evolve and change with the times.
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