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The young ones are most interested in the minorities, and thus there is now a lot of social media and merchandizing around the Taino ancestry. It is considered exotic and cool to be part Taino and seem “woke” by knowing about their history. Most of these are, like 60% of Puerto Ricans, only a small part Taino.
Puerto Rican != not white. Puerto Rican is a nationality, it can be a heritage, but not a skin color. Honestly, I keep seeing this sub pop up in my feed, and you guys are getting kind of annoying. Like none of you know the difference between a nationality and genes.
Best. ellen_schmid. •. They average about 50-65% white, 35-17% black, and 10-20% native in most cases. But generally only the 75%+ white Puerto Rican’s actually look that white. And the exact demographics are not really known since they go off appearance more than genetics in the census.
Honestly as a Puerto Rican who was raised there and moved to the US when i was 12 can tell ya we come in all different colors shapes and sizes my mom and dad are white Puerto Ricans my grandma and some of my aunts are black some are white my cousins are all mixed too and I’m tanned.Puerto Ricans don’t look a certain specific way so you shouldn’t feel left out you’re of Puerto Rican ...
In Puerto Rico, you have Puerto Ricans with Italian surnames (too many to list), Spanish (we are Hispanic after all), French (Vigoreaux Jovet, Monge, Gautier, Monroig, etc.) and even Irish surnames (such as Cobb, Cole, O'Neil). We are all Puerto Ricans regardless of where our grandparents came from or what our DNA says.
If you are born to Puerto Rican parents, but not taught the language, culture or traditions and especially our history. Then you’re Latino by ethnicity and of Puerto Rican ancestry. I wouldn’t say you’re, “Puerto Rican per se” though I wouldn’t call you a gringo.
So labels like "Afro Latino" or "Afro Puerto Rican" are created to try and understand. But we don't do that on the island. Yes, we have Puerto Ricans of mostly African descent, of mostly Chinese descent, and so on. But when they are born and raised here, they are Puerto Ricans. And no additional prefixes are used.
A person born to Puerto Rican parents outisde of Puerto Rico with cero markers of our culture could only be considered as Puerto Rican because the main ethnic group in the host country receiving that family is a racist group, just like Anglo Americans are classifying and forcing people to identify along racial and ethnic line instead of along ...
Puerto Rico and Panama are different but both countries will fall under the same Ethnicity of, Latino. Yes, people of the same ethnicity can indeed share physical attribute , but again, that, and genetics are not at all the sole or main determining factor of what an ethnicity is.
Yes, most Puerto Ricans do look mixed, but some Puerto Ricans do look like South Europeans, and people like the Garcia Padilla and the Rosellos do look like what gringos think of as white. Honestly, I think it has more with how people who have a Latino accent, last name, and mannerisms will be racialized as a whole.