Puerto Rican people

individual because forging a “culture” to a group of people eliminates certain aspects of self-identity. Connecting this thought to Hall’s perspective allows us to get in touch with characteristics that represent a society such as high-low context culture. For me, this is a subject that makes us retrospect and think about our own particular cultures. Coming from Puerto Rico and being part of the United States creates a big confusion for the Puerto Rican people because we are considered to be a…

between the Sharks and the Jets. Not only did they dress differently, there was a stereotype used in differentiating each side. The Sharks were all represented as brown-skinned Puerto Ricans with jet black hair, while the Jets were all fair-skinned with overly blonde hair. However, not every Shark was an actual Puerto Rican. Bernardo and María, George Chakiris and Natalie Wood, had been…

Puerto Rico By Cal Meuse This essay is about Puerto Rico; the traditions or what the Puerto Rican people celebrate from generation to generation, the culture or where they come from and what religion they practice / were born into, and the customs of Puerto Ricans which are the things they do in day to day life.Puerto Ricans have Taino, African and Spanish influences on their culture. Taino is explained as native caribbean. One celebration that is unique to Puerto Rico is the birthday of…

America, mainly Puerto Rican issues but racial inequality as a whole. “My Native Costume” is an example of the preconceptions that people may have about POC’s (people of color) and that they are just seen as their native selves. Espada’s use of irony and satire throughout all of his poems demonstrates the racism that POC’s have to endure everyday. Espada’s utilizes satire to depict the struggles of being a Latino. “You know, the teacher said, a Puerto Rican costume.” (Espada 144) People will…

Julia de Burgos left her legacy through her poetic writings and her passion for civil rights activism in the Daughters of Freedom, a branch of the Puerto Rican Nationalist party. She was born on February 17th, 1914. She was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico and grew up in a barrio, and was the first born of a family of thirteen children. Her father was Francisco Hans, he was a farmer and also worked for the National Guard and her mother was Paula Garcia de Burgos. Although she was one of thirteen…

attended which reflected the culture of Puerto Rican families. The first event I attended was the Puerto Rican festival in Charlotte, North Carolina. This festival was fun, crowded, and family oriented. It was held on behalf of the Puerto Rican Cultural Society. There were cars on display, a live band, and a lot of food for sale. First, I saw a lot of shirts with the colors red, white, and blue which are symbolic of their flag. Next, I noticed the majority of people were drinking out of a…

The status of Puerto Rico in accordance with the United States has been controversial at best throughout the years. In a 1998 referendum, the majority of Puerto Rico was not in support of statehood. However a 2012 referendum resulted in the opposite with 61% of Puerto Ricans voting for statehood (Castillo para. 2). Although this referendum was non-binding, meaning it did not develop Puerto Rico as a state, it shows the island’s support for full integration and forces Washington to address this…

Through participation in a service that directly impacts the Latino community, I learned about Latino culture beyond a classroom setting. I provided my service at the Latin American Festival in Longs Park, Lancaster, PA on October 10, 2015. There were several activities that the coordinator had the group of volunteers do, such as help with children’s activities, parking duty, stage crew, information booth, program distribution, and the workshops. The activities that I had to do were to direct…

The book War Against All Puerto Ricans by Nelson Denis looks into the actions of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party during the 20th century and how it affected US-PR relations. As time went on and the US still occupied Puerto Rico, the North American imposed government in the island was faced with several uprisings against it let by the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and its leader, Pedro Albizu Campos. Albizu Campos organized the agricultural workers of the island and executed and agricultural…

and Juliet, except instead of the Capulets and Montagues, it’s the Puerto Ricans and the Anglo-Americans. The migration of Puerto Ricans to the United States in the 1950s led to an influx of new community members and as a result, another component of diversity in the “melting pot,” that is the United States. With the introduction of West Side Story came a new, yet unsatisfying, portrayal of a group of people labeled as “Puerto Rican Migrants”. West Side Story is a critically acclaimed film that…