I saw your post about puertorican reader but puertorico is part of the USA so wouldn’t that just be American reader?
No? Uhh.. no??
ugh sorry but this anon PMO. i love history and learning and fun fact i actually wrote a paper on the history of puerto rico for AP us history so PLEASE anon listen when i say and this is exactly why people say puerto rican instead of just saying american because it’s not that simple!! PR is so beautiful & complex and needs its history KNOWN!!!
like puerto rico didn’t just “become american” in some fair mutual way. the u.s. took it from spain in 1898 after the spanish american war and just kept it. it’s still a territory, not a state, which is basically a “polite” way of saying it belongs to the u.s. but doesn’t get treated like it…
people born there got u.s. citizenship in 1917 but they still can’t vote for president if they live on the island and they don’t have full voting representation in congress. so calling them “just american” like it’s the same thing ignores the fact that they literally don’t have the same rights and culturally it’s not the same either. puerto rico has its own identity, language, and history that existed long before the u.s. showed up and never went away. it’s caribbean and latino, not interchangeable with mainland american identity, and acting like it is just flattens all of that!!! they have their own identity!!!!!!!
and the way the u.s. treats puerto rico is exactly why people don’t just go “oh yeah they’re american” and leave it at that. like look at d*nald trump (blergh maga stay away from me after you read this and learn some shit) and how he handled hurricane maria!!!!! thousands of people died, the island was without power for months, and the response was slow and dragged out while funding got held up behind extra things that other places didn’t have to deal with!!! PR was one of the only areas to deal with waiting for so long!!!! this is also the same person who threw paper towels into a crowd like it was a game, talked about puerto rico like it was disposable, and even wanted to trade it away. people in his own administration straight up said the mindset was basically “these aren’t my people” and now you’ve got people at his rallies calling puerto rico a “floating island of garbage” and pretending it’s just a joke like that isn’t coming from the exact same attitude
so yeah technically puerto ricans are u.s. citizens. but acting like they must be called american means their identity is just “american” ignores the colonial history, the unequal treatment, and the fact that a lot of puerto ricans don’t even primarily identify that way in the first place!! so calling someone puerto rican isn’t separating them, it’s literally just being accurate and not erasing everything that makes puerto rico puerto rico
sorry for this reblog ramble
Also puerto rican is an ethnicity, a culture, so many other factors and american is just your nationality 😔 some people lack critical thinking












