What I'd experience in Puerto Rico, is that most Puerto Ricans, from the island don't consider New Yoricans, as Puerto Ricans. They feel we are too Americanized, even though they themselves are ruled by the United States.
The parade is officially Puerto Rican but they allow participation by other people who wish to contribute to the spectacle. As a Puerto Rican, I marched in one in Newark NJ back in the 1960's as a member of a rock band.
I feel like nuyoricans try to standardize our foods and culture. One nuyorican said pasteles don’t include raisins. All the sudden they try tell us in Puerto Rico, we shouldn’t eat pasteles w raisins because it’s not the standard. Se vayan al carajo.
I'm reading so many disrespectful comments here. This is supposed to be a celebration of our Puerto Rican heritage, our culture, not a dog fight to see who could spit out the nastiest most offensive comment. Whatever you are, however you feel, celebrate it with pride and let each person do the same. No need to be disrespectful, show you have class and show you're an educated person. Let us never forget education has absolutely nothing to do with school. Education is what your elders teach you at home before going to school. How you carry yourself as a person, how you treat others. That's what education really is. You can have 10 master degrees from the best colleges anywhere in the world and still be uneducated. By the same token you could be an illiterate, a person who never learned how to read and write bc never had the opportunity to go to school like my father for instance and still be very educated. My father grew up at a time in which hardly 30% of the population in Puerto Rico was able to go to school so he was part of the vast majority that didn't and yet my grandparents instilled in him the need to be respectful of others. Yo soy boricua pa que tu lo sepas.
As an Afro Nuyorican now living in Washington, DC., I am very proud of my Puerto Rican heritage. However, Puerto Ricans on the island always reminded me during the visits to the island, I am a Nuyorican because I speak Spanglish. 😀 😃 😄 😁 Let me also say, when I was at Georgetown University in the mid 80's, the Puerto Rican students from the island were white and wealthy. Some were racist looking down on Afro Boricuas and Nuyoricans. Santurce and Carolina all day and everyday.
Now afro nuyorican, seriously? It's like your regurgitating the same BS that black Americans do they refer to himself as black American rather than seeing that their American. Why can you just say that you are nuyorican? You don't see other people of Puerto Rican descent sang I am a white Puerto Rican, I am a Taino Puerto Rican, or mixed race Puerto Ricans. You so-called afro descendants really make me sick sometimes, cuz whenever you add a-to your nationality or ethnicity you are no longer fully part of that ethnicity or culture because you added something else to the culture that was not there.
Nuyoticans have a different vibe from Puerto Rican’s Mostly Nuyoricans say there no difference when there are noticeable language, cultural, vibe differences.
I'm sorry but all attraction towards beautiful nuyorican women goes down the drain once you hear their manly voice, new york accent, and slang. Ill stick to PR Women from the Island or ones born and raised in Florida.
Their behavioral mannerisms convey the very strong impression that they are far prouder of identifying with African American culture than they are of identifying with Island culture despite all the garish supposedly pro Puerto Rican hoopla they display at these parades.
Muy Boricuas pero la nueva generacion ni español hablan; se dejaron agringar y podran tener un banco de sangre boricua pero la patria no se lleva en las venas; se lleva en el ejemplo y dejaron de serlo no cuando salieron o ni nacieron en Puerto Rico; sino cuando Puerto Rico salió de ellos o nunca en ellos ha nacido dicha patria.
te doy la razon en parte. me cuenta mi mama que cuando era mas joven yo decia "soy americana" y lo interesante es que desde hace un par de anos deje de pensar asi. cuando me pregunta la gente yo siempre respondo diciendo que soy Puertorriquena de NYC. yo si tengo plan de ir a vivir en la isla. saludos.
Muy cierto. Y yo personalmente observe el inicio de ese cambio. Note como de facil se empesaron a dejarse convencer por personas de una otra cultura acerca de su propia identidad. Pero nunca me imagine en esos momentos, que esa tendencia hiba a llegar a lo que ha llegado.
