Sunday, March 23, 2008
NuYoRicans
In this video is distinguishes the NuYoRicans v. the "real" Puerto Ricans. It puts down the NuYoRicans because they aren't considered to be "true" Puerto Ricans because they "Afro-centric" because of Americans heavily relying on rap music. NuYoricans also being 3rd or 4th generation PR in which have lost their culture by acculturating to US society. This can also be comparedto Mexican Americans and Mexicans in which Mexican Americans are considered pochos.
People from native countries don't go through the same experiences and are biased to the non-native and vis versa. This is were tensions and misunderstandings of one another clash into tensions.
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Wow...this video attempts to define "puerto rican" as "fino" or light-skinned and along white supremacist ideology by bashing the "afro-centric Nuyoricans because of their affinity and closeness to African Americans in NYC..
This is definitely a strange video, and I dont really understand what they are trying to say in the video. Are they denouncing the younger generations of New York from Puerto Rico? I think that if they are doing this it is bad, and it is what has happened with the mexican population. They should take a different light on it, and not show hatred towards the Nuyoricans because that is their image of Puerto Rico to Americans.
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