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[Ecuajey]

I can't believe someone can be that ignorant to believe that statehood for Puerto Rico has nothing to do with culture or language. How is that possible, when you have an island with a culture much different than any other state of the Union, (I don't want to hear about Texas or Hawaii, because those states have mostly Anglo-Protestant populations and are very much Americanized as well having pride in their state, which is different in Puerto Rico.) with a language that is not used in the USA like it is on the island?

I don't want to read that the USA doesn't have an official language and New México has a constitution that allows Spanish as it's second language, because that is different in Puerto Rico. Why? Well, because Spanish is known to 99.9% of the PR population, and English is only known to 20%, and it isn't used on television, books, school, gov't activites...etc like Spanish is. For the USA, it's the exact opposite. Which USA state does the majority of it's population know Spanish and uses it daily? Which USA state does the majority of it's population uses Spanish as the language of instruction of all school classes, gov't activities, and most of television...etc?

The reality, the only real Spanish-Speakers are the Hispanics coming into the USA, and the politicans know that after the fourth generation+, most of them won't even know Spanish. In Puerto Rico it's much different. So those who think that language and culture has nothing to do with statehood for our island, are wrong, because it does. Those who beleive it's only economical, well then they are following a lost cause, because economically, statehood will be a disaster for both the island and the USA. Oh well, statehood won't happen anyway!

[Guaili-Cayniabon]

[i]¡Exacto! Puerto Rico no será un estado totalmente bilingüe sencillamente porque Puerto Rico nunca será un estado ja ja ja

De acuerdo al Gobierno Federal 90% de los Boricuas no tienen Ingles funcional.

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Fully 90% of Puerto Rico's high school graduates do not speak English well.

As a state, Puerto Rico could make Spanish its only official language (as it did in 1990) and require the rest of the United States to adapt to them. That could cost $2-3 billion each year in language translation costs alone based on the costs Quebec imposes on Canada.

Articulo completo:
http://www.nationalcenter.org/PuertoRicoFacts898.html

Statehood is simply an impossible goal, and the USA knows that.

The USA has simply no moral authority to impose thier culture upon an older and richer culture which has already resisted the efforts to be assimilated. They are too smart to do that. This is cultural suicide, meaning exactly that. While being american is not necesarily a bad thing, renouncing to be Puerto Rican is.

The big falacy is that you can be both things, and you cannot. This so-called "estadidad jibara" is a lie. There is simply not such thing. We are a colony, as the state we will be a bigger colony. With the current attitude, we will be no more than a poor state, nothing will change. (That is one of statehooders mistakes, they want to bring statehood before changing the dependency culture, it must be the other way around)

Independence not only is possible, it is necesary in order to provide the Puerto Rican people with the appropriate tools they need to stimulate their intelect.

Puerto Rico has the infrastruture, the tecnological know-how, the learning institutions and democratic tradition to begin a new era as an independent country. All it needs is the will to do it.

All the good things about Jeffersonian democracy can and will be adopted in the new republic. Justice system, civil rights, due process, elections. All can be adopted. They are not "trade secrets" of the americans, they are common knowledge. All we need is to get rid of the fear we feel of ourselves.

We must realize that freedom, prosperity and security comes from the people who are willing to practice it. If statehooders are willing to do it under statehood (like they constantly say), then they better get ready to do the same under independence

El deseo de perpetuar la cultura de mantengo boricua es una pesadilla que debemos evitar a cada rato. Cuan mejor estaría Puerto Rico si los estadistas estuviesen verdaderamente orgullosos de Puerto Rico y canalizaran sus energias en construir una verdadera Patria para sus hijos, en vez de perder el tiempo, soñando con el día en que "los americanos vengan a arreglar las cosas"

Las herramientas para construir la República ya estan en su lugar: Una infraestrucura, que aunque maltrecha, es decente, un sistema de educacion universitario que es la envidia de las Americas un siglo de tradicion democratica, un sistema bancario y financiero de primer orden y lazos estrechos con la potencia numero uno del mundo.

Lo unico que falta es la voluntad del pueblo a tomar estas herramientas y ponerlas en buen uso.

Éstas son (ironicamente) las cosas que los mismos estadistas juran que estan LOCOS POR HACER, pero solo bajo la condicion de la estadidad ¿Por qué no comenzar AHORA y construir el camino a la autosuficiencia?[b]

Trabajar y preparar a Puerto Rico para la estadidad es como prepararlo para la independencia, una vez que alcancemos esa condición, para que queremos la estadidad.