Are Puerto Ricans racist?

tpmp wrote:

<quoted text> You take your 'average looking puerto rican' with olive-colored skin and curly or straight hair and put him/her in the middle of some hick town in the south or middle america. TRUST ME ,he will NOT be considered white. He may be considered 'white' on the island but not in AVERAGE SMALLTOWN,U.S.A. As regards to your point on 'tourism campaigns' in P.r and blacks.

Actually, many people in southern Europe have black curly or straight hair, brown eyes and olive skin, and have had this for thousands of years without any foreign mixture. You can see ancient Greeks and Etruscans in their color frescoes and art, they look like dark complected Caucasian peoples. Just because some "hicktown" redneck doesn't consider someone to be "white" (which they see as blue eyed, brown, blond or red hair, pale white skinned), doesn't mean those people are not European by blood/descent. These rednecks are mainly of Germanic blood (Germans, Anglo-Saxon English, Irish, Norwegian, etc.), not southern European Latin blood, whom tend to be darker in color / complexion.

Rednecks in 'small-town' U.S. have grown up in a small bubble with a very narrow view of who is what concerning blood lineage. They're quite uneducated, so to take their word for it is not smart whatsoever. Many Americans didn't consider Italians and other "dark complected" southern Europeans to be "white" just 80-100 years ago!

Times change, so do cultures and peoples views on subjects such as "race" the more they educate themselves.

Now if they're taught one thing all of their life, we really cannot blame them. It's no different from not blaming someone who speaks another language which you cannot understand: they grew up hearing it and learning it and think it's normal and okay. Slowly they will learn the more they spend time with different people and see everyone is human, no matter the color, and the culture/environment where we grow up in matters way more than their genetic makeup in the end.

the answer is YES: Puerto Ricans are racists, as racists as African Americans and White Americans and Native Americans and Asian Americans and you-name-it Americans. We are all one big bunch of racists! YEE HAWWWW!!

I really think this is a stupid question becaus puerorricans is a mix of different race including "black" how ya'll call it...Howcan we hate our own?
Almost my whole family is light sking and I have a cousin and she has really dark sking and we have never judged her or anything because that only a physical charasteristic...What really matters is what's inside of you, that's what makes a difference on how people look at you, and think of you :)
BTW:I am puertorrican and I hate that there is actually still racisim in this world, people say that this days we are so advanced and so smart and intellingt when we are not because we let something so stupid like the color of your sking be something that can affect you descisions, the way you think and act etc...That's really sad

Dave Lopes wrote:

<quoted text>To me in my opinion you are no true Puerto Rican, you are a foreigner living in Puerto Rico acting like you are one...For I cannot fathom how much you hate and constantly put your own so called
Puerto Rican people...You are either Dominican, Cuban or Latin American but not Puerto Rican.....True Puerto Rican people will not hate their own so called people as much as you do...

well, hey, my brother that is what you say but me I was born in U.S.A. But I spent more time in P.R. And I'm a full blooded Rican and I can tell you right now that screw my heritage, my ancenstors and the whole Hispanic America...

As a white man living in Puerto Rico "I now know how a black man feels like living in a white man's world."
Racism is a worldwide disease. It is everywhere one goes.
Here in Puerto Rico, I believe that you will find the friendliest people there are, regardless of the color of your skin.

buzz88 wrote:

As a white man living in Puerto Rico "I now know how a black man feels like living in a white man's world."
Racism is a worldwide disease. It is everywhere one goes.
Here in Puerto Rico, I believe that you will find the friendliest people there are, regardless of the color of your skin.

You are white that is why. Puerto Rico is way too young in what race is about. The first ones who are ashame of their race are the blacks.

You can call them Puerto Ricans, however the island is as diverse as the United States. There are Dominicans, Haitians, Cubans and so on who are not native to the country, they are there yes to seek perhaps a better life but that doesn't make them Puerto Ricans. I am Puerto Rican and I have friends of all nationalities, I don't discriminate so for someone to say I am racist is the one who needs to check themselves. One bad experience does not speak for the entire Puerto Ricans!!! I get that you feel disrespected, I don't appreciate it when I'm disrespected but don't generalize by saying all Puerto Ricans.

Cultural Thing wrote:

You can call them Puerto Ricans, however the island is as diverse as the United States. There are Dominicans, Haitians, Cubans and so on who are not native to the country, they are there yes to seek perhaps a better life but that doesn't make them Puerto Ricans. I am Puerto Rican and I have friends of all nationalities, I don't discriminate so for someone to say I am racist is the one who needs to check themselves. One bad experience does not speak for the entire Puerto Ricans!!! I get that you feel disrespected, I don't appreciate it when I'm disrespected but don't generalize by saying all Puerto Ricans.

Puerto Ricans overall i have never found to be racist. No like we have traditionally had in the states.

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Perhaps, those from outside of PR (i mean no island blood) have brought their attitudes with them to the island in recent years.

Is Puerto Rico a racial nirnava?...Of course not!. However, Where on earth is it that way?.

Race and social class also "intermix". Particularly in the West hemisphere.

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It would be nice one day when people can look beyond the artificial construct of race.

NOT REALLY wrote:

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She is exaggerating. I have never encountered "racism" in Puerto Rico or among Puerto Ricans. I have encountered racism in the U.S.

I agree with you. I lived 10 years in USA and I am white skin and it was racism there. Racism from a black to me. While living in Puerto Rico we are all the same color, whites, blacks, dark skin...we are all the same. We are all a big family.

Jose wrote:

the answer is YES: Puerto Ricans are racists, as racists as African Americans and White Americans and Native Americans and Asian Americans and you-name-it Americans. We are all one big bunch of racists! YEE HAWWWW!!

Well, considering the recent chain of events in Sanford.

This comment sure takes on a whole additional meaning.