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Suki said:
To be colonized RPR is to give credit to only those who are from the outside and to never give credit for anything done well by the natives. And the way you stated your last post it sounds like if it weren't for the USA Puerto Rico would never have accomplished anything.
I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion from my statement that we have benefited because of the infrastructure. Your intepretation is more in line with popular Latin American belief. Which is just plain sour grapes on their part. No Suki, I am not like your average statehooder or Puerto Rican for that matter who feels we would "die" without support from the US. The rest of your post is based on your incorrect assumption that I am not aware of the hefty price we have paid for our colonial relationship. I assure you that I am. The fact remains that we have benefited from the infrastrucure irregardless of the motivation behind it all. The day we gain our independence this is not going to disappear. It will be there for us to build upon on. That would be our first true test as a sovereign nation.
Suki said:
And frankly just how high falutin' should be the Puerto Rican Caribbean lifestyle? In order to be happy on a tropical island do you need the lastest IPOD and the BMW and the designer clothes and the mainland rich and spoiled Paris Hilton lifestyle in order to be content?
To each is own. I don't expect them to be on the beach all day for entertainment. There should be a choice though. I hope that your ideal of a free Puerto Rico is not one where there would be no access to consumer goods or some sort of society where the government decides who should own what. That would not be in the best interest for our island. Every generation dreams of being better off that the previous one so I don't expect there to be a large segment that would want to go back to the days of washing clothes by the rivers. I am exagerating a bit but you get the idea. When a society is used to a standard of living they don't expect to downgrade to anything lesser. I have met alot of recent arrivals from the island lately and I am always surprised when without hesitation many say they prefer living in the states. Not all but many. I shouldn't be surprised however.There is more economic stabilty in this nation,job security and higher paying wages, lower crime rate and a higher standard of living for the most part. That is really what all human beings look for in life and when your government is not able to provide that then you don't think with your heart. Pa'l Norte it is.
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