[L_F_Miranda]

RPR wrote:

"Classic Stereotype from Miranda about Nuyoricans."

Which stereotype?

1- That most Nuyoricans are uneducated except for a handful? I bet you would say this isn't so! But check out the statistics. As a group, we are the poorest and least educated Hispanics in the U.S. I didn't invent this. By covering it up we only perpetuate the problem. We should tackle this probem even though it's painful.

2- That a great portion of Nuyoricans have adopted the Black American discourse? There have been heated discussions here about this, I simply repeat it.

3- That It's been 4 generations and we don't have much to show for it here in the US. See statistics on Hispanics and then we'll talk. There is also an explanation to this.

4- That in Puerto Rico Nuyoricans have become the vanguard of assimilation? That has been the theory of Eduardo Seda and a lot of PIP intellectualks, not so Juan Ma. He thinks we have invaded Gringo land and will eventually change it.

RPR it's folks like you who feel their isn't a problem, or if there is, it isn't a big deal. We Folkorize our poverty and ignorance like its pure Puerto Rican. We become like some Black intellectuals, those who folkorize ghetto culture.

In a way we perpetuate the problem by refusing to even acknowledge there is one. In fact PR is two two nations, a conservative poverty ridden one in the U.S. and a more educated, but rabidly conservative one in P.R.

Nuyoricans are not the sole one liners on the web. I simply stated that most likely it was the folks who had 4 + years of college the ones most likely to discuss in depth. I even went as far as suggesting that we can have both.......Fluff , one liners and in depth discussions, however Suki will hit the ceiling, LOL .