Quote (Massicure @ Jul 24 2010 05:25pm)
You can't be *half Puerto Rican* Its either you are or you aren't. What you really are is Hispanic, unless you were born in Puerto Rico. If not then you are only Puerto Rican descent. Making you Hispanic/American assuming you were born in America. Another example is being born in America but your family is actually all Japanese (assuming if they were born there) Then you are Japanese descent making you Oriental/American. If you want to twist it up a little for example a person whos mother and father and the rest of the family is from one part of the world lets say Russia and they had a child who is born in Jamaica because they decided to have the child born in Jamaica (sometimes this accidently happens, pregnant women who aren't expecting so soon would have their child in another country). The child would be Jamaican but is also Russian descent making him or her European/Jamaican. Sorry to get so detailed into this it just gets really annoying when people say *I'm half this and half that* or *I'm half this a quarter that and a quarter this* You can't be a quarter or a half of a heritage/country or w/e just because your family was born there and you weren't only a descendant. Now that is out of the way I'm actually full blood Tainos I was born in Puerto Rico and I have to admit its pretty hard for us to grow full out Santa beards. We can get some hairy legs and arms but never the full Santa beard its actually a rare trait assuming your bloodline runs all the way back to Tainos which are the natives of Puerto Rico (as far as my knowledge goes) If you look around at alot of Puerto Ricans/Cubans/Dominicans its a moderate rarity of growing out full pledge beards until of a certain age in some cases but most of the life it wont grow out fully unless you are mixed and somewhere in your family line there is Russian blood or something and you received a Russian trait (I like to assume they grow Santa beards) So you would be European/Tianos (or in this case) European/Puerto Rican.
idk who the fuck you are,
but tl:dr
bolded the part i did read, and from that small portion i only have a few things to say. also, hispanic is a box you check on applications... they use that word so they dont have to use 400 boxes for all the spanish speaking ethnicities
IM HALF PUERTO RICAN. im bi-racial, my parents are two different ethnicities. to claim solely one, and not the other would be disrespectful to my parents.
how are you going to tell me what i am, or am not. seriously?! thats a decision i make, and i make alone. i could choose to claim my pr side, or my other, but i claim both.ty for the giggles
i see you found my trend?This post was edited by datdude377 on Jul 24 2010 05:09pm