Puerto Rican Culture

The official or dominant definition of Puerto Rican culture is that Puerto Ricans came from three races Spanish, Taino and African. This mixture is called mestizaje were the Spanish heritage is the principal one. This point of view state that culture cannot be change and it is the same today as it was before. The only way culture can survive it is in the island and any change to it can threat its survival and continuity. This view have been challenge by a new definition. This new definition see culture as dynamic and not static; meaning that culture change as time passes and as new ideas is being brought to it. Many cultural nationalism believe that the only way to preserve Puerto Rico’s culture, Puerto Rico must became independent from the United Sates. …show more content…
By Raquel Rivera recognize that culture change over time. Rivera state that Vico C one Puerto Rican rapper, support the idea of mixing your culture with new thoughts. In the article, Rivera public a part of Vico C song what said “My music is not just a copy of that of African Americans, Everyone knows that I’ve got plenty of flavor I follow the trend they started, but I do it in my own style that’s why my blade is double-edged.” This mean that does not matter if the idea came from other culture if you add your style it become part of yours. But Eddie dee another island rapper said that, “I do copy African Americans because is I don’t copy them who am I going to copy? Tavin Pumarejo?” In those verses Eddie is trying to connect with his black roots through the music of African Americans; a very unlikely argument than Vico C who reject its blackness origins and promoted its Spanish