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Puerto Rico
Nathaniel Bailey
Evan Collins
It's funny, more people in PR speak English than in Miami.
Chase Gutierrez
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Eli Ward
Our public university system is in process of being privatized, right now theyll fouble the cost of attendance an d it will be the most expensive university from the cheapest. Keep in mind that the UPR is recognized ad one of the best systems in the hemisphere an recognized worldwide in Humanities, Social Sciences and STEMs, rivaling gringo universities like MIT abd Georgia Tech. Last time i checked there were 100 scientists graduated from the UPR working in NASA, all this coming from one of the poorest regions under gringo control. Apart from being one of the last bastions for communist /independentist studies. Im in 2nd year studying History and before ill die im going to have to see it become a milquetoast liberal uni for the wealthy from its life as a genuine force of education and research, badically every boomer was educated there and the gulf is gigantic when you compare the private vs the UPR
on top of that you have 20 yrs of austerity politics culminating in an impository Fiscal Board by the gringos to manage our 76 bl usd debt, debt that was inescapable thanks to the underlying structure of the colonial system in which 80-90% of everything consumed is imported, and importing goods ate shackled to the US Merchant Marine, the most expensive fleet in the world.
I could go on but since theres so much youd need to be more specific in your questions or else ill end up writing an essay.
To put it in perspective we had more political an economic freedoms/privileges in 1898 under the Autonomic Charter of the Spanish gov than today
Thomas Ward
It's questions like these that know no answer
Aiden Long
Most everyobe understands at least a lityle thanks to aculturization but speaking fluently is another thing entirely
Gavin Johnson
Id really wish there was a way mods could replace images, cause then id ask them to use this flag instead of that generic hispanic image op used
Jaxson Long
Also I was born here, my fathers' side were cane-cutters from the western part of the island while my mother's side were poor urban dwellers, my mother's mother is daughter of two catalonian refugees that fled franco, thankfully i managed to obtain my spanish citizenship from it just in case i really need to book it.
The hurricanes Irma and Maria (we were hit back to back with barely a week in between) simply ripped off the image of bountifulness and wellness that gringo ownership has brought us, the recovery effort was a complete joke. It hasnt been enough however, people here think they live in some sort of paradise, thankful that they dont live in *those* places where tinpot dictators live, live Venezuela, Cuba, or Nicaragua (lol). Needless to say theyre pozzed as FUCK, incredibly ironic considering that the Nationalists (both left and right wing) were the biggest political force in the island till the 50s when the industrialization really kicked in as well as the whole cold war shebang.
Kayden Green
bumpin cuz i wanna do dis :d
Joseph Cruz
shut the fuck up puta you're all fucking spoiled brats. I'd fucking kill for birthright citizenship, do you realize all the shit I've had to go through just because I'm an undocumented citizen? At least your joke of a "country" gets to be #51 and you can all escape to Florida meanwhile I'm constantly under the gun just because I was born outside the US.