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If you want to see some really confused faces - - I have a NY Yankees T-Shirt with a Dominican flag as part of the print. Dominicans in the city look at it . . . then look at me - 6'4" with blue eyes. It's a real conversation starter.
Oh lol! Yeah is not that common. Are you Dominican by the way?
Interesting. Yes I agree many of the Panamanians are dark. However I did not know that the Panamanians who come here come from the panama canal. Interesting. If you go to Orlando, FL you would mainly see Puerto Ricans. Like literally on every corner you would see Puerto Ricans. However these Puerto Ricans are very different from the ones in NYC. They speak more Spanish over there. I thought that I was in Puerto Rico over there when I went for the first time lol. They also dress different too. They dress like the Puerto Ricans in PR.
Na not that their from the Panama Canal lol. They are from the coastal sections of the country which lie on the Caribbean Sea. Most of their ancestors from the Caribbean came to the country to help build the canal.
That's funny I thought the Orlando Ricans were just a bunch of Ricans from NYC. I like Ricans and like orlando. Mainly because as a black man I feel like PR people are open minded to everybody and not bias or praising of others.
Absolutely. There will be a few ethnic neighborhoods but for the most part Nuyricans like the Italians have moved out to the 'burbs, intermarried with other ethnic groups, and their grandchildren will have to take Spanish in school because they won't hear it home. I know at least half a dozen families where the kids are half or one-quarter Puerto Rican.
Out on Staten Island or parts of South Brooklyn you will seen plenty of persons you'd swear were full blooded Italian, but are part PR. Even some of the full blooded PRs act and or try to give the impression they are Italian or Sicilian. Then there are those that simply assume any dark/Latin good looking man or woman out there *IS* Italian.
Out on Staten Island or parts of South Brooklyn you will seen plenty of persons you'd swear were full blooded Italian, but are part PR. Even some of the full blooded PRs act and or try to give the impression they are Italian or Sicilian. Then there are those that simply assume any dark/Latin good looking man or woman out there *IS* Italian.
I have never seen a Puerto Rican trying to act Italian/Sicilian and I live in southern Brooklyn. Idk but then again you have witnessed this so I can't argue or disagree. But you are spot on about the mixing. I know plenty of Italian/PR families in Brooklyn.
I got nothing against Puerto Rico, but why does it get such a massive parade? My country doesn't even have one. Peru doesn't have a parade, Ecuador has a small one, Colombia has a small one, it's like why does Puerto Rico get a special treatment? :/ I wish other countries would get equal treatment
Symbolic Minorities- Puerto Ricans are Symbolic Minorities, so are Jews, Arabs, Women, Blacks.
I have never seen a Puerto Rican trying to act Italian/Sicilian and I live in southern Brooklyn. Idk but then again you have witnessed this so I can't argue or disagree. But you are spot on about the mixing. I know plenty of Italian/PR families in Brooklyn.
I always see the opposite. Even if someone is like 75% white 25% PR they will do their best to pretend they're a full blown latino.
I always see the opposite. Even if someone is like 75% white 25% PR they will do their best to pretend they're a full blown latino.
Oh yes this is true throughout America in general. It seems that many people who are either half black or half Hispanic will choose to rep their black/Hispanic side over Asian/white sides.
My good friend is Dominican and Scottish and looks pure white. Call her white and she gets offended. Maybe her living in orange, New Jersey has something to do with it lol.
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