User talk:Seablade
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[edit] El Nuevo Día reference
The reference is apparently using the "cite book" template, thus quoting the newspaper itself. However the article is also in the newspaper's website, it took me less than thirty seconds to find it. - Caribbean~H.Q. 03:02, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Puerto Rico is not a Colony
From Meriam-Webster:
Main Entry: col·o·ny
Pronunciation: \ˈkä-lə-nē\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural col·o·nies
Etymology: Middle English colonie, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, from Latin colonia, from colonus farmer, colonist, from colere to cultivate — more at wheel
Date: 14th century
1 a: a body of people living in a new territory but retaining ties with the parent state b: the territory inhabited by such a body
2: a distinguishable localized population within a species <a colony of termites>
3 a: a circumscribed mass of microorganisms usually growing in or on a solid medium b: the aggregation of zooids of a compound animal
4 a: a group of individuals or things with common characteristics or interests situated in close association <an artist colony> b: the section occupied by such a group
5: a group of persons institutionalized away from others <a leper colony> <a penal colony>; also : the land or buildings occupied by such a group
Which of those definitions does Puerto Rico meet?
According to CIA World Fact Book, Puerto Rico is "unincorporated, organized territory of the US with commonwealth status". The website for the legislature of Puerto Rico has a link to "The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico". It looks like Puerto Rico is officially a "Commonwealth" and by common sense application of the definition of the word "colony", Puerto Rico is not a colony. As for the links you provide from the UN, they are hardly persuasive. First of all, the UN is an unreliable source of information on questions of the status of nations, territories, etc.. For example, according to the UN, Taiwan is not a sovereign independent nation.
Second, I looked into the links you provided and . The "Special Committee on Decolonization" consists of Antigua & Barbuda, Bolivia, Chile, China, Congo, Cote D'Ivoire, Cuba, Dominica, Ethiopia, Fiji, Grenada, India, Indonisia, Iran, Iraq, Mali, Papua New Guinea, Russian Federation, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent & the Grenadines, Sierra Leone, Syrian Arab Republic, Timor- Leste, Tunisia, United Republic of Tanzania, Venezuela. So where is North Korea? It's not a complete list of countries that hate the United States without North Korea.
From the second link you provided: "Acting without a vote today, the Special Committee on decolonization approved a draft resolution. Acting without a vote? That's supposed to persuade anyone of the unbiased fairness of the committee? Also according to that page the draft text was written and introduced by Cuba, another unbiased observer of U.S. affairs, no? Readin (talk) 06:47, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
