Talk:Puerto Ricans in the United States

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An earlier version of this entry appeared as the introduction to my, Angelo Falcón, Atlas of Stateside Puerto Ricans (Washington, DC: Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration, 2004), which is not copyrighted.

This was submitted as part of the resolution of the problem of the "Puerto Rican" and "Portorican" entries that it was suggested should be merged. The two entries are too much of a mess to accomplish this easily, so I thought this might be an easier solution.Prpolicy 08:33, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Nations with larger exile populations than native

The entry, as it reads now, says:

To give a sense of the scale of this Puerto Rican demographic development, the only comparable situation would be that of the Irish, which is so atypical that it underscores the uniqueness of the Puerto Rican case. As a result of the catastrophic potato famine of the 19th century and other developments, today the Irish-American population is close to 6 times (594.7 percent) that of the combined populations of Ireland and Northern Ireland. (Census Bureau 2004b).

I can add another example from the Demographics of Cape Verde. The population of the actual Republic of Cape Verde is around 420,000, yet according to that article, this is little more than a third of the worldwide Cape Verdean population.

That's just the one example I'm familiar with. I do not doubt that more such examples could be easily found with some research, which makes this claim of uniqueness hard to entertain. Sacundim 08:05, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Response: This Article was in reference to the U.S. and not Worldwide

The only problem with your comment is that this article is only making reference to migrations to the United States, not worldwide. What you are discussing is a whole other question that should probably be the subject of a separate article. Prpolicy 13:48, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

That's true. Although it seems like there are Pacific Islander American communities that outnumber the island they come from, but I'm not sure. Also aren't all Puerto Ricans "in the United States?" (I curiously read someone once complain about Puerto Ricans in connection with complaints about illegal immigration. Someone informed him Puerto Rico is a US Commonwealth, as such there are no "illegal Puerto Rican immigrants" in the way he meant, and he was quite embarrassed)--T. Anthony 08:09, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gallos Marruecos

I have heard some people call stateside puertoricans Gallos Marruecos, but I do not know what they mean by that.

I never heard that reference. Isn't Marruecos Spanish for Morocco? Prpolicy 03:45, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes it is, but I checked again and it was more of a joke or insult among some people from the island. A "gallo marrueco" is a fighting cock that doesn't fight very well.

I think the joke means that third generation Puertoricans or people who claim to be puertorican but have never been to the island that live in the United States aren't very puertorican when you think about it.

Kinda confusing