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Puerto Rico: Statehood for a “Nation” That Will Never, Ever Assimilate?
« on: October 31, 2025, 04:02:24 pm »
Puerto Rico: Statehood for a “Nation” That Will Never, Ever Assimilate?
 by Selwyn Duke October 28, 2025   
 
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Article audio sponsored by The John Birch Society

“Puerto Rico doesn’t have to be ‘American’ to be a friend of America. Let it be what it already is — a nation.”

So editorializes Javier A. Hernández, a Puerto Rican author, linguist, educator, and former federal official. And Hernández is one more thing, too: a pro-Puerto Rico sovereignty advocate. So his passions are clear. Yet so is his point:

Should Puerto Rico ever become a state, it would never, ever assimilate into the United States.


Nor would it be reasonable to expect it to.

Absorbing the island would be, in fact, a bit like accepting Spain as the 51st state and counting on assimilation. Far from this, however, the “Pearl of the Caribbean” would become what Quebec (French-speaking province) is to Canada — on steroids.

https://thenewamerican.com/us/politics/puerto-rico-statehood-for-a-nation-that-will-never-ever-assimilate/
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Re: Puerto Rico: Statehood for a “Nation” That Will Never, Ever Assimilate?
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2025, 04:03:39 pm »
Never assimilate?  What's the difference, then, between Puerto Rico and California? :shrug:
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Re: Puerto Rico: Statehood for a “Nation” That Will Never, Ever Assimilate?
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2025, 04:31:44 pm »
I really wish they would just cut P.R. loose and let it make its own way in the world.
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Re: Puerto Rico: Statehood for a “Nation” That Will Never, Ever Assimilate?
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2025, 04:35:58 pm »
Okay, Puerto Rico, take a long walk off a short pier, then.  You'll be just a less economically developed Dominican Republic.

When current Puerto Ricans are asked which passport they want - American or Puerto Rican, it will be interesting how many will choose to jump head first into Sh!th0lehood for P.R.

New England has never "assimilated".  We eat brown eggs.  Have candlepin bowling.  Have fun watching tourists navigate traffic rotaries.  We don't believe in good street signage.  Some speak a dialect of English that's devoid of 'r' and 'g'.  Aren't phased by a 'big storm'.  Raised on Dunkin Donut coffee from the day we are born.

Nobody is asking Puerto Rico to become W.A.S.P.'y if they become a state.
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Re: Puerto Rico: Statehood for a “Nation” That Will Never, Ever Assimilate?
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2025, 04:43:06 pm »
Speaking of entitlement slugs.....   

PR enjoys our perks without taxation.  Cut 'em loose.
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Re: Puerto Rico: Statehood for a “Nation” That Will Never, Ever Assimilate?
« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2025, 06:11:00 pm »
Kamaji opines:
"I really wish they would just cut P.R. loose and let it make its own way in the world."

Yes.
The USA should have granted/forced Puerto Rico independence right after those guys shot up Congress back in 1954. Set them "free" and be done with it.
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Re: Puerto Rico: Statehood for a “Nation” That Will Never, Ever Assimilate?
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2025, 07:59:47 pm »
Quote from: Kamaji on October 31, 2025, 04:31:44 pm
I really wish they would just cut P.R. loose and let it make its own way in the world.


I really like the way you think!
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