Unthinking Majority wrote:I've already said that it's not about race, it's about culture. The clash of civilizations is a threat to social stability. Cultures create schisms. If you want to see it in action then look at Quebec vs anglo Canada vs indigenous peoples. The majority typically always rules over the minority, and the minority doesn't like it because they often feel oppressed and without self-determination.
You can see the same with Scotland and Northern Ireland in the UK, Shia vs Sunni vs Kurd vs Jew vs Christian in the middle east, hindu vs muslim vs Sikh in south asia etc., Muslims vs French in France. Wishful thinking doesn't get rid of these problems. This is why nation-states exists in the first place.
Let us talk about logical facts pertaining to colonial and Empire relationships?
The first inhabitants of Boriken (the Land of the Noble Lord) was about more or less 5000 BC. The people were Arawak Tainos who used to live in the Venezuelan jungles. They were very good mariners. Excellent mariners in long canoes. They occupied the island and developed fishing and farming and had Cacique groups.
That lasted until 1493. Because San Juan Bautista the renamed Boriken by the Spanish then moved in. Most natives either fled slavery or intermarried with the Spanish and African descendants. That went on for hundreds of years. 1493-1898. Almost five hundred years of Spanish and Indian and African slave intermixing in culture, language and racial characteristics. There were Irish, Italians, Basque, Germans, English, Jamaicans, Venezuelans, Cubans, Dominicans, and in the years of 1898-1948 (50 years) no one in Puerto Rico was allowed any kind of vote. Not locally or federally. It was a military dictatorship from the USA.
So where did Puerto Rico have a choice on controlling immigration and keeping out or not keeping out anyone who wanted to go there? No control have we ever had over Puerto Rico's land. That is about US control.
So? Why didn't a bunch of white people from the USA go to the island of Puerto Rico and take over? Most of Puerto Rico is densely populated by Spanish speaking, racially mixed people who have been hanging around there fucking each other of different races for CENTURIES.
The culture? It is a mixture of Southern Spanish culture from the Canary Islands and Seville, Andalucia, and all of the Southern Spanish port cities, combined with a smattering of what was left after disease from Europe that the Native Tainos had no resistance to, and slavery imposed by the Spanish crown failed to bring enough workers in. Africans arrived in chains and they also mixed with a lot of poverty stricken Spaniards fleeing the indentured servitude imposed by the Spanish crown who rarely sent women. Mostly men UM. Women and entire families were never allowed to leave all together to the Americas or the West Indies.
So who are we? A mixture of cultures and races. Nothing singular. The language is Spanish.
Now the exposure to the US mainland has made some urban Boricuas know the English language.
How come the mainland Americans do not move to Puerto Rico in the millions? For the same reason that many do not move to Mexico or Colombia. Everyone speaks Spanish, the cost of living in Puerto Rico is much igher than in Mexico or Colombia, and the pay is low and the cost of living is high. Why do that when you can stay in Florida for the same amount of money or less and not have to speak Spanish, English and French well in order to get paid half the going rate as the USA because in PR. You get paid shit. Now, the Left in Puerto Rico is organized and as such? The federal minimum wage in Puerto Rico is $9.50 US an hour.
Still not much when your electricity is almost three times or more higher than in NYC rates.
Where is the advantage for the average English speaking person who wants to overrun Puerto Rico and take over from the Puerto Rican scene the Native Puerto Ricoans?
Instead you force Puerto Ricans off the island looking for better wages in some state in the USA. Then they run across dummies like you know who here, who thinks all the Spanish speakers are illegally present in the USA invading their space. When it is the opposite situation for us?
Think about it UM. We have not gotten invaded by millions of Anglo mainlanders because it is not advantageous to them. Period. it is not advantageous to us either. Colonialism is basically obsolete and should be scrapped as a model to follow for all nations who seek to progress their own needs in the international community.
Do you need more clarification?
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