Puerto Rico - Fun Facts

Puerto Rico is really located in Europe.

We, boricuas, deserve that the USA increase its federal funds in the islands.

And we all carry tons of cash to spend.

Jorge wrote:

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If any boricua readers can help you out with anything...feel free to ask.

I plan to be there before I turn 30. I think Puerto Rico is full of rich culture. Also interested in indiginous population. I'd like to find more about Taino. What is left of information available anyway .

And also Reggaeton and Salsa. Ready to party and be lazy in the sun . That is what I call LIFE .

America gave Puerto Ricans US Citizenship to be able to include them in the draft for military service, and some other political reasons related to WWI and Culebra. Puerto Ricans are US Citizens, but do not have full rights under the US Constitution while residing on the island.

Puerto Ricans have served in the US Armed Forces with honor & distinction ever since WWI. Actually, I think some of them served with the US during the Spanish American War.

As an American living in PR, I was surprised by the buffoonery of many people like Jorge, or whatever his real name is, so far as thinking that PR was the center of the universe & of major importance to the well being of the USA.

No exaggeration, many in PR considered winning a beauty pageant as evidence of world superiority. They literally shut down the government to celebrate the return of a beauty queen. You would have thought a Puerto Rican had won a Nobel Peace Prize.....or something of importance to the quality of life. They did the same thing when one of them won a boxing match. They have a strange sense of priorities.

Plus, we do patronize them by stroking their egos. We, Americans, let them have their own Olympic teams & beauty pageant entries knowing that these things are of major importance to them. It costs us nothing, and make them feel more important. So, Americans do contribute to their feeling that they are Puerto Rican as opposed to being Americans.

One valid theory is this false pride/inflated ego thing is in large part due to the political status of the island.

Most of us Americans are born in one state or another, but we are Americans first. There is a good number of Puerto Ricans do feel they are Americans first.

Here in this forum, you will find many contributors who self-identify as Puerto Ricans & not as Americans. It only takes a couple moments to pick them out by their anti-american rhetoric.

Few of these buffoons understand that the US Congress can void the PR Constitution & the US Citizenship of Puerto Ricans on the island if they find cause to do so. A Congressional committee report made the following conclusion which agreed with a US Federal Court ruling.

"The report concluded that Puerto Rico "... remains an unincorporated territory and does not have the status of 'free association' with the United States as that status is defined under United States law or international practice", that the establishment of local self-government with the consent of the people can be unilaterally revoked by the US Congress, and that US Congress can also withdraw the US citizenship of Puerto Rican residents of Puerto Rico at any time, for a legitimate Federal purpose.[105][106] The application of the US Constitution to Puerto Rico is limited by the Insular Cases.

Puerto Ricans can't make up their minds what they want. Many on the island blame their indecision on the USA? The only thing they know for sure is that they are Puerto Ricans.

The majority of Puerto Ricans are not anti-american, but find the current status untenable.

Jota wrote:

Puerto Ricans have served in the US Armed Forces with honor & distinction ever since WWI.
As an American living in PR, I was surprised by the buffoonery of many people...
They have a strange sense of priorities.
Puerto Ricans can't make up their minds what they want.
The only thing they know for sure is that they are Puerto Ricans.

Contradictions, contradictions, contradictions.....
("...can't make up their minds...,they know for sure that they are Puerto Ricans....")....LOL
("...Puerto Ricans...have served with honor; I was surprised by the buffoonery on many people...")....hahahahaha hahahahaha
LOL
ROTFLMAO
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaa

Jota wrote:

America gave Puerto Ricans US Citizenship to be able to include them in the draft for military service, and some other political reasons related to WWI and Culebra. Puerto Ricans are US Citizens, but do not have full rights under the US Constitution while residing on the island.
Puerto Ricans have served in the US Armed Forces with honor & distinction ever since WWI. Actually, I think some of them served with the US during the Spanish American War.
As an American living in PR, I was surprised by the buffoonery of many people like Jorge, or whatever his real name is, so far as thinking that PR was the center of the universe & of major importance to the well being of the USA.
No exaggeration, many in PR considered winning a beauty pageant as evidence of world superiority. They literally shut down the government to celebrate the return of a beauty queen. You would have thought a Puerto Rican had won a Nobel Peace Prize.....or something of importance to the quality of life. They did the same thing when one of them won a boxing match. They have a strange sense of priorities.
Plus, we do patronize them by stroking their egos. We, Americans, let them have their own Olympic teams & beauty pageant entries knowing that these things are of major importance to them. It costs us nothing, and make them feel more important. So, Americans do contribute to their feeling that they are Puerto Rican as opposed to being Americans.
One valid theory is this false pride/inflated ego thing is in large part due to the political status of the island.
Most of us Americans are born in one state or another, but we are Americans first. There is a good number of Puerto Ricans do feel they are Americans first.
Here in this forum, you will find many contributors who self-identify as Puerto Ricans & not as Americans. It only takes a couple moments to pick them out by their anti-american rhetoric.
Few of these buffoons understand that the US Congress can void the PR Constitution & the US Citizenship of Puerto Ricans on the island if they find cause to do so. A Congressional committee report made the following conclusion which agreed with a US Federal Court ruling.
"The report concluded that Puerto Rico "... remains an unincorporated territory and does not have the status of 'free association' with the United States as that status is defined under United States law or international practice", that the establishment of local self-government with the consent of the people can be unilaterally revoked by the US Congress, and that US Congress can also withdraw the US citizenship of Puerto Rican residents of Puerto Rico at any time, for a legitimate Federal purpose.[105][106] The application of the US Constitution to Puerto Rico is limited by the Insular Cases.
Puerto Ricans can't make up their minds what they want. Many on the island blame their indecision on the USA? The only thing they know for sure is that they are Puerto Ricans.
The majority of Puerto Ricans are not anti-american, but find the current status untenable.

Well Jota your arrogance and self righteousness is showing up once again....Typical white American attitude for those of you who think your crap don't stink and that you are all superior to the rest of the world...Well not so because you make yourself feel big and self righteous by picking on the pride a very small island next to a gigantic USA. One day you too will need to come back down to planet earth and face reality as many are already doing all over the world as our world gets smaller and smaller each passing day...What goes up must come down including you Mr jota the clown....Am just joking, not.

I cant understand why theres some americans that think like you . I love the states and when u as**oles visit Puerto Rico we treat u good and with respect. But I cant stand Fu**ing B*tches like you that think were ilegals or not US Citizens !! If you dont know S*hit then dont talk s*it. Read a FU**ING book u retard !! And if it wasnt for ilegals u would be working in a F**KING farm or working in construction doing the dirty work that ur LAZY and GAY BI*CH ASS cant do cause u are not man enough to do it ... Maybe I take care of ¨UR COUNTRY¨ better than u do ... And they should kick u out cause maybe u live in a fucking traler park and do nothing but drink beer, scratch ur as* and f*k ur sister the whole day u fu**ing trailer trash ... And this is not ur country so SHUT THE F**K UP !! F**KING IM*ECIL !! Cant stand FU**ING ID**TS... St**id .... PUNETA ! ATT. ANGRY PUERTO RICAN

That was for that i*iot that calls himself JESUS CHRIST in this forum ... Thanks

Angry Puerto Rican wrote:

I cant understand why theres some americans that think like you . I love the states and when u as**oles visit Puerto Rico we treat u good and with respect. But I cant stand Fu**ing B*tches like you that think were ilegals or not US Citizens !! If you dont know S*hit then dont talk s*it. Read a FU**ING book u retard !! And if it wasnt for ilegals u would be working in a F**KING farm or working in construction doing the dirty work that ur LAZY and GAY BI*CH ASS cant do cause u are not man enough to do it ... Maybe I take care of ¨UR COUNTRY¨ better than u do ... And they should kick u out cause maybe u live in a fucking traler park and do nothing but drink beer, scratch ur as* and f*k ur sister the whole day u fu**ing trailer trash ... And this is not ur country so SHUT THE F**K UP !! F**KING IM*ECIL !! Cant stand FU**ING ID**TS... St**id .... PUNETA ! ATT. ANGRY PUERTO RICAN

C'mon. You're not REAL Americans. You're more like a slightly oilier version of Mexicans (without the talent for picking fruit).

Angry Puerto Rican wrote:

I cant understand why theres some americans that think like you . I love the states and when u as**oles visit Puerto Rico we treat u good and with respect. But I cant stand Fu**ing B*tches like you that think were ilegals or not US Citizens !! If you dont know S*hit then dont talk s*it. Read a FU**ING book u retard !! And if it wasnt for ilegals u would be working in a F**KING farm or working in construction doing the dirty work that ur LAZY and GAY BI*CH ASS cant do cause u are not man enough to do it ... Maybe I take care of ¨UR COUNTRY¨ better than u do ... And they should kick u out cause maybe u live in a fucking traler park and do nothing but drink beer, scratch ur as* and f*k ur sister the whole day u fu**ing trailer trash ... And this is not ur country so SHUT THE F**K UP !! F**KING IM*ECIL !! Cant stand FU**ING ID**TS... St**id .... PUNETA ! ATT. ANGRY PUERTO RICAN

It's precisely this kind of mentality that lands so many PR's in the criminal justice system. Hopefully, they will never get statehood. They are not worthy.

We should bestow the honor of statehood on Guam. I think we own that. It's an island paradise over by Hawaii somewhere. They are probably happy, peaceful people. I bet they wander around all day wearing g-strings made of shells, stoned on Kava Kava. They are much more deserving. We should also make Puerto Rico take Jennifer Lopez back. We've all had enough of her.

Faith wrote:

<quoted text>It's precisely this kind of mentality that lands so many PR's in the criminal justice system. Hopefully, they will never get statehood. They are not worthy.

Tell your US congress to gives our much deserved freedom, we would love to have it ASAP.

Dave Lopes wrote:

<quoted text>Tell your US congress to gives our much deserved freedom, we would love to have it ASAP.

I agree 1000%. P.R. deserves to be "free"....like Haiti and Jamaica. Besides, we have enough trouble with Mexicans to deal with you as well. Come to think of it, we should kick Hawaii out of the union, too. Since Don Ho and Jack Lord are both gone, Hawaii really has nothing of relevance to add to American culture. We can get our Pineapples from Guatemala. Do you guys grow pineapples down there?

HELLO,
My name is Aphra Behn the grandaughter os Sosthenes Behn, the gentelemen who wrote the note below is right about my grand-father and his brother. Mrs Luchetti (lucchetti)married in second wedding Mr Luchetti after her husban Behn died in St Thomas by the way Mr. Luchetti was my grand-father's god-father.
Yes he became an American twice as he used to say, 1- he entered the American Army , so became an American and then St Thomas became American so he did again.
They built the bridge as the owned the Condado land for a real estate business venture but then had to sell as San Juan was growing so much they sold it to the state of Puerto Rico.Then , yes they bought the puerto rican telphone company , cuban telephone company (first interntional calls with spain)and so on for IT&T.

U_S_Mail wrote:

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Jorge, these dudes ran the company from 53rd and 6th Av. in uptown Manhattan - far from La Milla de Oro in Hato Rey. Their connection to a Puerto Rican heiress is all but nonexistent. Their mother was neither Puerto Rican nor American – she was a French national. In fact, Sosthenes was born in then Danish-St. Thomas and became a nationalized American citizen after age 30.
It seems that their connection to Puerto Rico came by way of their step-father, Mr. Lucchetti, a French national, who owned a small sugarcane business in the island of Puerto Rico; they subsequently inherited that property upon the old-man’s death. As you point out on one of your comments, they purchased feeble PRT (Puerto Rico Telephone) and the Cuban Telephone Company and renamed them ITT. Some sources suggest that the Behn bros built the bridge between Ashford and Ponce de Leon and named it after themselves. Jorge, that’s a notion worth pursuing; but, I’m skeptical about anyone’s motive in financing such a substantive public works. Call me crazy.., but, suspicious me thinks charity had little bearing. Who knows.., maybe Qtips, the learned expert of everything Dutch Antillean, can shed some light (B.S.) on the subject.

Faith wrote:

<quoted text>I agree 1000%. P.R. deserves to be "free"....like Haiti and Jamaica. Besides, we have enough trouble with Mexicans to deal with you as well. Come to think of it, we should kick Hawaii out of the union, too. Since Don Ho and Jack Lord are both gone, Hawaii really has nothing of relevance to add to American culture. We can get our Pineapples from Guatemala. Do you guys grow pineapples down there?

Tell Congress to le Puerto Rico go and then I will let you know if we grow pineapples.

Spoken like someone straight off a colony.. Puerto Rico is so great they don't need their independence, they can pretend to be americans and enjoy leeching off the fruits of another peoples fight and "celebrate" how great being puerto rican is with a parade.

R Rivera wrote:

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I believe this is a Puerto Rican Forum, why the h*ll are you insisting I'm illegal? Your ignorance shows right thru your posts. Puerto Ricans ARE US Citizens.....wake up!

Jota wrote:

America gave Puerto Ricans US Citizenship to be able to include them in the draft for military service, and some other political reasons related to WWI and Culebra. Puerto Ricans are US Citizens, but do not have full rights under the US Constitution while residing on the island.
Puerto Ricans have served in the US Armed Forces with honor & distinction ever since WWI. Actually, I think some of them served with the US during the Spanish American War.
As an American living in PR, I was surprised by the buffoonery of many people like Jorge, or whatever his real name is, so far as thinking that PR was the center of the universe & of major importance to the well being of the USA.
No exaggeration, many in PR considered winning a beauty pageant as evidence of world superiority. They literally shut down the government to celebrate the return of a beauty queen. You would have thought a Puerto Rican had won a Nobel Peace Prize.....or something of importance to the quality of life. They did the same thing when one of them won a boxing match. They have a strange sense of priorities.
Plus, we do patronize them by stroking their egos. We, Americans, let them have their own Olympic teams & beauty pageant entries knowing that these things are of major importance to them. It costs us nothing, and make them feel more important. So, Americans do contribute to their feeling that they are Puerto Rican as opposed to being Americans.
One valid theory is this false pride/inflated ego thing is in large part due to the political status of the island.
Most of us Americans are born in one state or another, but we are Americans first. There is a good number of Puerto Ricans do feel they are Americans first.
Here in this forum, you will find many contributors who self-identify as Puerto Ricans & not as Americans. It only takes a couple moments to pick them out by their anti-american rhetoric.
Few of these buffoons understand that the US Congress can void the PR Constitution & the US Citizenship of Puerto Ricans on the island if they find cause to do so. A Congressional committee report made the following conclusion which agreed with a US Federal Court ruling.
"The report concluded that Puerto Rico "... remains an unincorporated territory and does not have the status of 'free association' with the United States as that status is defined under United States law or international practice", that the establishment of local self-government with the consent of the people can be unilaterally revoked by the US Congress, and that US Congress can also withdraw the US citizenship of Puerto Rican residents of Puerto Rico at any time, for a legitimate Federal purpose.[105][106] The application of the US Constitution to Puerto Rico is limited by the Insular Cases.
Puerto Ricans can't make up their minds what they want. Many on the island blame their indecision on the USA? The only thing they know for sure is that they are Puerto Ricans.
The majority of Puerto Ricans are not anti-american, but find the current status untenable.

"As an American living in P.R" please note...All Puerto Ricans living in P.R. are AMERICANS...just a minor correction.

Angry Puerto Rican wrote:

I cant understand why theres some americans that think like you . I love the states and when u as**oles visit Puerto Rico we treat u good and with respect. But I cant stand Fu**ing B*tches like you that think were ilegals or not US Citizens !! If you dont know S*hit then dont talk s*it. Read a FU**ING book u retard !! And if it wasnt for ilegals u would be working in a F**KING farm or working in construction doing the dirty work that ur LAZY and GAY BI*CH ASS cant do cause u are not man enough to do it ... Maybe I take care of ¨UR COUNTRY¨ better than u do ... And they should kick u out cause maybe u live in a fucking traler park and do nothing but drink beer, scratch ur as* and f*k ur sister the whole day u fu**ing trailer trash ... And this is not ur country so SHUT THE F**K UP !! F**KING IM*ECIL !! Cant stand FU**ING ID**TS... St**id .... PUNETA ! ATT. ANGRY PUERTO RICAN

Your vulgarity is unnecessary but your point is right on...I agree with all you said....I would have phrase it differently..but I know you're angry.

ISA wrote:

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"As an American living in P.R" please note...All Puerto Ricans living in P.R. are AMERICANS...just a minor correction.

Any forum you visit has the same thinkig.

The Italians say..ITALIAN-AMERICAN

IRISH-AMERICAN

CUBAN-AMERICAN

ETC.

these people are proud of their roots, such as we are, ISA

anayeli wrote:

i love puerto rico

I also puerto rico tooooooooooooooooo

prexplorer wrote:

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Thanks, help me out. Let's find some more cool postive things about Puerto Rico.
Also please tell me about your Dutch history. I am fascinated. My mother's great grandfather came from Corsica. His name was Don Bernardo Merle Guilfucci. He built a two story stone mansion in Barrio Jacaboa near the town of Patillas in 1898 where he had a coffee plantation and hacienda. He named it Hacienda San Isidro.

From what you are saying, we may very well be related. My grandfather was a Merle and lived in Bo. Jacaboa. He lived just down the road a stone's throw away from the house you describe above.