Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Deep in Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico, called by most the island of enhancement. Called by most of us the best place to live and the happiest world on earth. Even though our opinion in other parts of the world they have negative aspect of Puerto Rico. Criminality, economy, poverty, unemployment, etc.; are most of the reason that the world have a negative image of Puerto Rico. But what if they could see the bright side of Puerto Rico? What if they could see deep inside of the persons that compound this beautiful island? Puerto Rico is not only problems, criminality and bad economy, Puerto Rico is full of persons that are always ready to extend their hand to needed one, of persons that always are always trying to make other people happy even though their situations and of persons always try to find the positive side to everything.


Is pretty difficult to find a puertorican that actually says, “I wished I’ve never was born in this island”. We puertoricans are pretty patriotic and we always are going to defend our island to any negative comment of us. Not only in the island puertorican are patriotic, they are also all around the world constantly defending the ideals, persons and situations here in Puerto Rico. In an article by Peter Roberts, called “The Roots of Caribbean Identity: Language, Race and Ecology” he wrote and quote; “The identity of any human can be specified by using, singly or in combination, many different universal criteria, e.g. sex, age, religion. However, in the modern, political world human beings are automatically identified with a country, and national identity is generally established by place of birth or place of residence”. So my message to all the persons that make negative comments of Puerto Rico is not to come a visit the beautiful places this island has, but go deep in Puerto Rico to really discover what really Puerto Rico, the island of enchanment, is really made of.

2 comments:

  1. This is really true, no matter where it is, if you find a Puertorican outside of the island he will probably tell you that even though he's been living outside the island for a couple of years he still feels at least a little Puertorican inside of him. It is an identity that is really difficult to get away from.

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  2. The negative aspects that you talk about are spread all over the world. We as Puertoricans see it more since it was we are used to see every day. People from other countries see it kind of different; the same way we see a place when we go to vacation.

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