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Rooster fighting is a sport that has been part of the Puerto Rican culture for centuries. In 1845, Manuel Alonso, in his book El Gíbaro, wrote that maybe a barrio could lack a church, but no barrio of Puerto Rico lacked a cockfighting venue. The sport was passed in families, from generation to generation.
Non-Spanish cultural diversity in Puerto Rico and the basic foundation of Puerto Rican culture began with the mixture of the Spanish-Portuguese (catalanes, gallegos, andaluces, sefardíes, mozárabes, romani et al.), Taíno Arauak and African (Yoruba, Bedouins, Egyptians, Ethiopians, Moroccan Jews, et al.) cultures in the beginning of the 16th century.
Puerto Ricans (Spanish: Puertorriqueños), [12] [13] most commonly known as Boricuas, [a] [14] but also occasionally referred to as Borinqueños, Borincanos, [b] or Puertorros, [c] [15] are an ethnic group native to the Caribbean archipelago and island of Puerto Rico, and a nation identified with the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico through ancestry, culture, or history.
Puerto Rican culture in the United States (3 C, 17 P, 1 F) W. Works about Puerto Rico (2 C, 4 P)
The Yoruba and Congolese made the most notable impacts to Puerto Rican culture. [67] There's been evidence of intercolonial migration between Puerto Rico and its neighbors during the 1700s and 1800s, which consisted of migration of free blacks and purchases of slaves from neighboring islands.
Congress made Puerto Ricans U.S. citizens in 1917, about 19 years after taking control of the island. Later, when the island passed its 1952 constitution, Congress decided to make Puerto Rico a ...
Distinct Puerto Rican words like "jevo,", "jurutungo" and "perreo" have been submitted to Spain's Royal Academy- considered the global arbiter of the Spanish language.
Modern Puerto Rican culture is a unique mix of cultural antecedents: including European (predominantly Spanish, Italian, French, German and Irish), African, and, more recently, some North American and many South Americans. Many Cubans and Dominicans have relocated to the island in the past few decades.