I Think This Forum Needs Re-vamp!

[MimaPr]

Hi Suki:

Sure I will stick around, I am pretty busy with my board, but of you need any help or ideas, feel free to contact me. I would love to see this nice board grow.

Just one suggestion for now, If you guys know Spanish and want more participation, you need to start writing in Spanish, the majority of "Boricuas" can't read or write English. Specially the ones that live in the "Isla"

[L_F_Miranda]

I said:

Cafe Boricua is mostly in Spanish with one specific section for English speakers. If one writes in English in a Spanish section hell breaks loose. And to think of it, most are Statehooders, go figure.

OOPs "Metí la pata". Maybe I overstated this fact. It should have been the other way around. I encountered some friction when writing in Spanish in the English only section, not a big deal. Writing in English in the Spanish section has been more tolerable, but not too many responses.

About most there being statehooers, once again I overstated. Most are surely not leftists of the 19th or 20th century type, but moderate, center right, like most Puerto Ricans tend to be.

I think that when push comes to shove, some time down the line, Puerto Ricans will eventually storm the gates of statehood if threatened by the powers that be to fling us to swim with the sharks. Now it would be interesting to see how Gringos react.

Bottomline: We are basically a comfortable and "eñagotao" people who are used to being taken care of by a higher power. To shake this off will require, "Dios y su Santa Madre."

[L_F_Miranda]

MimaPr wrote:


Just one suggestion for now, If you guys know Spanish and want more participation, you need to start writing in Spanish, the majority of "Boricuas" can't read or write English. Specially the ones that live in the "Isla"

This is a double edged sword. If writing too much in Spanish it tends to alienate the Ricans who live in the states and were brought up with Englsih only.

Finding a happy medium is not easy. Cafe Boricua does has a small English only section for all themes but it comes through to me as a segregated section.

The problem here is, I assume, that most educated Boricuas are fluently bilingual, and feel comfortable in any language, not so!

Ironically, the ones who are mostly bilingual and can deal well in both languages are pro independence folks, with a sprinkling here and there of Free Associationers and Statehooders, as far as I know.