Being Puerto Rican can be a million
of different things depending on whom you ask. There are people all over the
world who haven’t even touched Puerto Rico and have bigger a national pride
than people who haves lived on the island for years. For me being puertorican
is all about our wonderful culture, it’s all about waking up a Saturday or
Sunday to call your friends and family so we can go to the beach and eat
alcapurrias, bacalaitos and a lot of wonderful fatty food.
Also about seeing
our colorful flag anywhere in the world and have your heart swell up
immediately. As puertoricans we are very
proud people and a lot of things from one another may annoys us, but as soon as
there’s a big catastrophe like a hurricane there’s no need to ask for help
because we are a big family and everyone is willing to share. As puertoricans
we take even the littlest opportunity to make a big party, prepare a big feast
and make an “alboroto”. There’s a big
part of the identity in our music, most of us love to dance salsa and after a
few medallas even some reggaeton. We love our language and to use colorful
words and some lingo that nobody else in the world would be able to understand here
having a good time is a “vacilón”, a person having a bad time is
“badstripiando”, and there’s a thousand different ways of naming a person who
you don’t know.
