Puertorricans in the military How many Puerto Ricans have served in the U.S. military since 1917? WW I - 18,000 WW II - 65,000 Korean - 61,000 Vietnam - 48,000 Gulf - 10,000 Enduring & Iraqi Freedom - 25,000 National Guard in 2014 - 8,400+ Veterans in PR - 100,000+ Medal of honor 9
I remember Puerto Rico when the sugar came fields were still there and factories. My husband worked in the sugar cane fields then came along food stamps In the 70s ever since then everything went to crap no more sugar cane fills no more coffee ,nothing now the big corporate companies are taken over and putting in hotels.
Good to see this video as it was made by the one sided view of the American Marketing Companies. I was born in Puerto Rico and have lived in the U.S. since a child. By all means I'm no activist but the video did not represent a view of Puerto Rico in the 1940s. The production was well staged. Most PRs worked their butts as seen working the farms usually sweaty and bare footed trying to make ends meet. I laughed at the section where " la Senora Josephina de Morales learned how to preserved food in jars for home use and for sale." He followed the narrative with "by her hard work this comfortable home was the reward." REALLY. I'm sure 90% of PRs were not living like that home shown in the 40s. The home depicted was where only the American Military Officers or rich Americans and their family lived, NOT most Puerto Ricans. There are beautiful home by the beach shore in Honolulu dating back to the early 1940s and let me tell you those Historic Preservation Markers did not have a Hawaiian name home owner to them. Puerto Ricans worked very hard with little monetary rewards. Honestly, I have not lived in Puerto Rico but I have learned about the many political challenges it has had since the colonization by the United States. There truly has been many benefit from America, as Puerto Rico is considered one of the riches Caribbean islands when compared to Cuba, Santo Domingo, Jamaica and others. Not knocking those islands but their rulers/governments have not done much to improve the well being of its people. Hence the reason why they escape to Puerto Rico or the USA for a better life. I'll give the video some credit for depicting the hard working farmers, the beauty of our people and our island- PUERTO RICO . Everything else was nothing more than propaganda.
I agree with your views 100%. I think that if you take out the commentaries, the true value of this documentary would be the historic footage. I grew up in Puerto Rico and got see many scenes similar as those shown in the video (I was born in 1958). I have several videos of Puerto Rico on my channel that are more recent. Muchas gracias, Ricardo.
Those wore hard days. My grandfather had a nice farm.Do you know anything about Operation Bootstrap? In my opinion was a good program. I agree with most of what you said. Best wishes.
@@donald8354 Hi, yes I do know about Operation Bootstrap. It was as you say, a good program at the end of WWII. It catapulted the industrialization of Puerto Rico and ending the dependence of the sugar industry as the islands main crop of export. Have a happy new year!
Good video! Beautiful well dressed hard working people! The dress code changed when the wide tee shirts and pants appeared. Before that they knew how to dress well even to go visit a friend!
For sure! At that time there were only Puerto Ricans on the island until the freeloader aliens started getting to the island through the back door full of drugs, bad habits and empty pockets to be a burden and contribute with nothing.
@@mindy2215 The moronic war on drugs has devastated the island more than 100 hurricane Marias ever could. It needs to end and drugs need to be decriminalized. Decriminalized not legalized as that another headache. Let drugs become a social problem and not a criminal one again. Why do some churches want to keep the killing going is beyond my comprehension. I'm certain that the moment the war on drugs comes to an end crime would be reduced to 95%
@@RoyCyberPunk Drugs arrive on the island through the freeloaders aliens. A governor with a hard hand on immigration and drugs control is what the island needs. If they control them by air or any other way, the problem will be reduced, for sure.
@@andith Nope. Been there done that. Decriminalization is the only way. Who are you talking exactly about when you say "freeloader" aliens? The Dominicans? That's a nice overgeneralization you got there compay. The Federal and state governments have incentivized state dependency on the island for Generations so is not just aliens mind you. The welfare nanny state also needs to end.
WOW...Acabo de toparme con este interesante documental tan hermoso sobre mi amada patria puertorriqueña y de verdad que sentí un ORGULLO ver lo que siempre hemos sido, un país trabajador, emprendedor y actualizado en TODAS las facetas. Creo que antes era mejor que ahora y qué HERMOSOS SOMOS los puertorriqueños, nuestras raíces europeas se ven en cada rostro, herencia de nuestra madre patria España y a pesar que somos territorio estadounidense seguimos con nuestro orgullo español. Siendo una pequeña isla pero sin nada que envidiar a países mas grandes en extensión territorial, siempre hemos estado en TODO, modernos y actualizados aunque los envidiosos y chismosos digan lo contrario. ¡PUERTO RICO, mi ORGULLO! 🇵🇷 🌺
Dang. Well, I work in *Hollywood.* We shoot everything at everyone else's expense. Guess you already know (deep down) The Financial Investing World needs to see a new Positive-Take *Puerto* *Rican* Docu _Ahora Mismo._
Hey I’m the son of a Puerto Rican father of white European decent. I’m far from being a politically correct person but where in the hell are the Puerto Rican’s of African decent in this documentary. Its sad. Not right.
this is a propaganda film as far as your statement of a puerto rican of a father of european decent our people can not be divided by our complextions i am very light complextion so is my sister my mother was brown skin and so was my father infact myself and my sister are the only light complextion family members among my relatives we as a people are more taino and yoruba the european please study your history and take a real close look at your puerto rican people and you will see these genitic features
I think we are more in agreement than not. I find it regrettable that the film erased people of African decent from Puerto Rico’s history. As for my genetic description it is based on DNA scientific analysis I do not have Taino genetic DNA. If I did I would be proud. I will however take your advice and continue to study my unique background , culturally , historically and genetically. Thanks for your comment. Best to you.
Nelson A. As far as genetical test are concerned they are not always 100 percent correct I have friends who have taken different genetic exams and they have received different results from each company the Tamil gene is referred to as the geno genie that genie is present in 70 percent of the Puerto Rican people because of hundreds of years of racism we have been conditioned to reject our Indian and African hermitage thankfully there is a present movement among Puerto Rican’s presently to get back to our Taino roots and culture and I wholeheartedly welcome that in the world of today we Latinos are classified as either white or black which is completely misleading as to what we are scientists today realize that people cannot be divided into races by their complexions I am 60 years old and for decades I have been fighting these misleading classifications but unfortunately these forms of racism have deeply been in implanted in our minds and hearts to our detriment
Hello David , My mother is not Puerto Rican so then you find yourself saying well I’m half Puerto Rican and that offends some people. Also to simply say I’m Puerto and not include my moms ancestors can also be disrespectful. It’s complicated. I am proud of my Puerto Rican roots. I’m sorry I disappointed you.
Esa es mi gente linda de Puerto Rico. Wow! por todo lo difícil que eran esos trabajos y sin embargo la juventud de hoy día le pesa hasta levantarse del sofá. Los padres llaman a sus hijos para hacer algo y ellos enseguida dicen “ya mismo voy” y ese ya mismo se convierten en media hora y una hora. Sin embargo la juventud de antes iba más rápido que lijero a donde sus padres.El chancletazo estaba a la vuelta de la esquina. La culpa la tienen esos juegos de PlayStation y la internet, los celulares Wow! están desarrollando más vagancias en la juventud y hasta los adultos. Y esto es más cierto que la misma verdad. Un saludo Boricua desde Miami.
At the time the governor was chosen by the president of the US. So how exactly it was even democratic which is nothing but mob rule anyway? While I love to see old documentary films like this there is no question that this films were done for propaganda purposes.
It wasn't at all 😔 it was onlt after the 1950s that we got to elect our own governor. And now we've gone back to those days. As the fiscal control board appointed by Obama and their leader "Natalie Jeresko" has now become the de-facto governor. Sonce she can override our constitution, veto laws and enforce basically every political and economic decision. Also we can't vote for the president so we have no democracy at all
@@RicardoRMedina the old ones, PRRA, 1940’s, Tugwell’s, Chardon’s, Roosevelt’s socialist legacy. And even the other one of Muñoz Marin 1950’s. Im trying to find the root of the socialist reform and what created the cradle of modern Puerto Rico.
My mom was born in Las Marias 1944, wish I could go back in time and experience living life there for a couple of weeks vacation, and then come back to current time. Time travel tourism:)
This film documents the colonialism and ignorance of individuals focused on ego, we should utilize it as tool for education with alternative perspectives
PR's form of governtment in spanish is called FREE ASSOCIATED STATE. That's a misnomer or more accurately a big lie. It isn't FREE (free would mean an independent nation) It isn't ASSOCIATED (to be associated it would have to be an independent nation first and then work out a deal equally beneficial for both sides). And certainly it isn't a STATE (like New York or California), we all know that. Otherwise there wouldn't be a need for a political party (PNP) who seeks statehood. It's a colony, (some call it the oldest colony in the world) and that's why there's a political party and a few other organizations seeking independence. That's why Washington refused to accept the spanish translation which is ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO and decided to call it COMMONWEALTH instead. Whether that's good or not is up to each person to decide.
The Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico was created in 1952 as a way to circumvent a United Nations decree at the end of WWII that colonialism should end. The English did the same with it's colonies but with much more autonomy.
Qué desfachatez la del gobierno estadounidense queriendo demostrar la democracia en Puerto Rico cuando era y es todavía una colonia explotada. ¿Cuándo se ha visto una colonia democrática?
Bueno, para su información aunque usted reniegue, la realidad es que el 60% de los puertorriqueños son de tez blanca por su decendencia europea, busque información y se enterará. No olvide que Puerto Rico fue colonizada por europeos españoles no por africanos.
Y pensar q así se vive en cuba hoy y así mismo estuviéramos hoy si nos hubiésemos dado cuenta a tiempo mi papá desde yo niña me dijo NO al comunismo y de la Manoç de de uh I’m
No me hagas reir. Asegurado vives en USA. Esstados unidos no le robo nada a PR. Saco la isl de las manos de los españoles que esclavizaron y masacraron los indigenas para quedarse con sus tierras. Hipócrita!
@@carlitosgy6 Que envidia que los americanos no querían guisar en tu pais y tu gente se arrastra como las culebras para llegar a que los persigan como perros rabiosos para deportarlos. Compra pastillas contra la envidia las necesitas. .
Jajaja España no descubrió nada pues había indigenas y los esclavizó y masacró para robarles sus tierras. USA no robo nada. España le cesio sus tierras. Los que roban son los arrimados extranjeros que llegan a la isla a vivir del gobierno en vez detrabajar. El 12 de octubre de 1492 inició el genocidio más grande de la historia. Al menos 90 millones de indígenas fueron exterminados. Historiadores coinciden que el 12 de octubre, conocido como el día del Descubrimiento de América, el Día de la Raza o el Encuentro de Culturas, no es un fecha para celebrar. La llegada de los conquistadores españoles al continente americano dio inicio a uno de los genocidios más grandes en la historia de la humanidad. Al menos 90 millones de pobladores de la región fueron exterminados. El antropólogo brasileño Darcy Ribeiro planteó que a finales del siglo XV, al momento en que arribaron los conquistadores europeos a América, existían aproximadamente 70 millones de indígenas. Un siglo y medio después solo
@@dianacassinelli9467 Trump did not make fun of anybody, He just did what any other person would have done. He threw paper towels instead of going through people to distribute them one by one. They had fun for a while when it was needed by people who were going through a lot. Human waste haters like you distort facts to boost your envy and ego because Trump is so controversial that if he gives attention to others people start distorting things out of envy or whatever guides them to make bad comments when people are going through a crisis. Shame on your!
5:53 oh! the irony of flexing abt US progress and prosperity while a song about widespread poverty plays in the background....is no one going to tell them? 😹
While I appreciate this production , I can promise you, a jibaro woman that I am, that my mother and grands were not made up. They were barefooted with clothes that were simple. They washed their clothes in the spring, used an outhouse and from what I understand, the people had law. So the machete was used in cases of child harm and other related acts. The jibaro people rejected colonialism and I cannot see them being so coordinated. My family was illiterate and ignorant but humble and hardworking. I guess in a way this is a washed down take but it is not accurate.
At ET, I have researched this and you dont have a clue about what you are talking about. Everything I said is factual while you are regurgitating what amounts to colonial propaganda. Find an article from tbe New York times printed around 1903 to 1905 that details much of what I wrote. It clearly says that Puerto Rico was much better off under Spain. The island had never suffered poverty like it was suffering under the US. Explain to me why unti the last days of 1898 Puerto Rico was receiving a lot of immigrants from Europe? Immigrants do not go to a place that is poverty stricken. These immigrants came from Germany, Italy, Ireland, France and Spain. Go research it on your own and you will be amazed.
At Georice81, you are the one who don’t know what you are talking about and you are just spreading boldface lies. I am from PR and so are my ancestors. Also studied there and traveled all over and know every little town. PR was a garrison island of the Spanish and as such it had very little manufacturing. The industrial revolution completely missed PR. The only immigrants coming to PR were those running away from other Spanish revolutions in the Caribbean. The US had already a continental railroad. The US already had highways 20 times longer than PR. By the way, the people in PR let the US Army just walk in. There was not even 1 casualty. They did this because most of the commerce at the time was done with the US. Spain was bankrupt at totally corrupt. They never recovered from Napoleons occupation. So stop spreading fake news. Journalists are not historians.
angel rivera what the hell is the royal decree of graces??? You mean gracias? If that is what you mean I read it at the Archivo Nacional de las Indias in Seville. I encourage you to do the same.
@@ET-bg8ru It is too long and complicated l would be writing for hours. Look it up Royal Decree of Graces. "Real cedula de gracia 1815. Among many things it encouraged europeans to emmigrate to Puerto Rico but had to be loyal to Spain. That is why there are surnames in the Island that are French,Corsican,Irish,German Etc. 15 to 17% of surnames in P.R. are French/Corsican. In 1800 the population of P.R. was a little over a hundred thousand and by by 1898 almost a million. That is why we are such a melting pot. People from all regions of Spain came and formed the Criollos mix of natives and blacks and all the europeans that also came. Really from many places including the others you mention. Man even chinese and from Lebanon. Tell me you have never heard of for axample O'neill,Numan,Fas,FarinachI Etcetera Etcetera. We are quite a mixed bunch.
angel rivera want you guys fail to understand is PR was and is a mineral poor country and it is too small for an effective large scale farming operations like in Venezuela, Colombia and or Cuba. There were immigration from Corsica and the Canaries bit it was small scale. The main purpose of PR was as a military garrison and port to protect the yearly gold and silver sitiado than came from South America and Mexico. In fact those walls in SJ were built with silver from Dan Luis de Potosi in Mexico. The economy of PR at that time totally depended of el sitiado... look it up. PR benefited from Bolivar and Tuissants revolutions though. My family were Canarians that emigrated from Venezuela running away from Bolivar. They ran a sugar plantation in the Southwest along with many canarians that came with them.
Ni locos... sólo hay que ver en la miseria que viven esas republicas sumidas en la pobreza, analfabetismo, sin servicios médicos adecuados, atrasados en todo el sentido de la palabra y huyen hacia la nación americana buscando una mejor calidad de vida. La independencia suena bonito y hasta la han romantisado, llegan con palabras bonitas y de progreso y cuando los líderes los tienen bien agarrados es que comienza a cambiar todo pero de manera negativa atropellando al pueblo, sus derechos, su progreso... SOLO LOS POLÍTICOS PROGRESAN y lo demás que se jodan... ejemplo vivo: CUBA, VENEZUELA, GUATEMALA, HONDURAS, NICARAGUA , COLOMBIA, REP DOMINICANA, etcétera.
citizenship?? this is such nonsense...puertorriquenos refused us citizenship, but the us imposed it. nosotros somos Puertorriquenos, we are not gringos & many of us (myself included) have no desire to be "americanos"...que viva Borinquen Libre y Soberano. palante mi gente.
If it wasn't for the USA Puerto Rico would be worse than Honduras, El Salvador, Venezuela and all the other countries! Thank God for America that helped Puerto Rico!
Por k no mencionan de 1950 para atrás .k paso con la masa de de Ponce , aguadillas , Arecibo,lares .y muchas cosas más.Exiten libros.La gente no lee.ojo.
@Da_Find Was the freedom and blood of our men and women worth the experiments they did to us worth it? Were the deaths of our soldiers fighting in their wars worth it? Can you just stand their and watch your father abuse your mother and do nothing? Apparently you can.... How do you know we would end up like those other countries when we never had the chance to rule ourselves? Brainwashed into thinking you're not smart enough or good enough to make your own decisions is part of the US tactics. They destroyed our way of living, our culture and apparently our psyche if you give them praise for all they have done to us. Didn't Maria teach you anything??
De que tu hablas si PR anda sin luz a cada rato, no hay trabajos, las calles estan hechas un desastre, la luz y el agua por las nubes. Los suicidios y asesinatos a lo algarete, la salud mental por el piso. Todo eso pasando bajo el imperio Yankee, porque la realidad es que a los gringos no les importa un jabao como tu y como muchos otros. Despierta mijo porque at the end of the day, you'll never be a true american you're just another second class citizen. The gringos don't even like African Americans, what makes you think they want to help a mestizo like you? We got to keep it real, they are selling the island piece by piece and highly uneducated boot licking people like you are so gullible that think the island will do better once it becomes a state. The congress has said repeatedly that it won't happen, specially since the island owns a shit ton of money that nobody is willing to pay for obvious reasons. So yeah, wake-up the gringos don't want you!
We would be in the whole without the United States because we do not have natural resources nor the territory to offer anyone anything except for the times of the cold war when the standard of living of the average Puerto Rican surpassed that of any other Latin American country. It was propaganda, territorial expansion but we got a niece piece of the pie so don't complaint so much nonsense.
Before Covid-19 America owed over 23 Trillion dollars: Today close to 30. The whole world is getting poorer by the day and the 1% richer. Nothing is nor will ever be the same. Capiche Paisano?
Now this is the way we use to do it. How far we have drifted from our origins of humbleness. God bless my Island.
This was the absolute truth this is how my mom & dad & Aunt's & Uncle's worked super hard Que Viva La Isla Del El Encanto
Mi tierra , mi gente nuestras costumbres. Y qué lejos estoy de ella.
I remember looking at a picture of my mom when she was young. She was so beautiful and the dresses were exactly like the ones showing in this video.
Discovered? There were people lived there already.
Joe Code stud EXACTLY!!!! They INVADED!!!
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wow tenia mujers muy bonitas. eran pobre pero siempre. se vestien .muy lindo los trajes .las ninas en la escuelas muy bellas
Puertorricans in the military
How many Puerto Ricans have served in the U.S. military since 1917?
WW I - 18,000
WW II - 65,000
Korean - 61,000
Vietnam - 48,000
Gulf - 10,000
Enduring & Iraqi Freedom - 25,000
National Guard in 2014 - 8,400+
Veterans in PR - 100,000+
Medal of honor 9
My great grandpa fought in the Korean war he's Puerto Rican
Un monton 😎🇵🇷
Respect 🙏
3 of My uncles served in the Korean War
The story of SGT 1st CLASS Jorge Otero Barreto needs to be taught in schools in the US and Puerto Rico. Sgt. Rock or the Puerto Rican Rambo
I remember Puerto Rico when the sugar came fields were still there and factories. My husband worked in the sugar cane fields then came along food stamps In the 70s ever since then everything went to crap no more sugar cane fills no more coffee ,nothing now the big corporate companies are taken over and putting in hotels.
My Island , My beautiful Island. 😢
El Puerto Rico de mis abuelos.
Good to see this video as it was made by the one sided view of the American Marketing Companies. I was born in Puerto Rico and have lived in the U.S. since a child. By all means I'm no activist but the video did not represent a view of Puerto Rico in the 1940s. The production was well staged. Most PRs worked their butts as seen working the farms usually sweaty and bare footed trying to make ends meet. I laughed at the section where " la Senora Josephina de Morales learned how to preserved food in jars for home use and for sale." He followed the narrative with "by her hard work this comfortable home was the reward." REALLY. I'm sure 90% of PRs were not living like that home shown in the 40s. The home depicted was where only the American Military Officers or rich Americans and their family lived, NOT most Puerto Ricans. There are beautiful home by the beach shore in Honolulu dating back to the early 1940s and let me tell you those Historic Preservation Markers did not have a Hawaiian name home owner to them. Puerto Ricans worked very hard with little monetary rewards. Honestly, I have not lived in Puerto Rico but I have learned about the many political challenges it has had since the colonization by the United States. There truly has been many benefit from America, as Puerto Rico is considered one of the riches Caribbean islands when compared to Cuba, Santo Domingo, Jamaica and others. Not knocking those islands but their rulers/governments have not done much to improve the well being of its people. Hence the reason why they escape to Puerto Rico or the USA for a better life. I'll give the video some credit for depicting the hard working farmers, the beauty of our people and our island- PUERTO RICO . Everything else was nothing more than propaganda.
I agree with your views 100%. I think that if you take out the commentaries, the true value of this documentary would be the historic footage. I grew up in Puerto Rico and got see many scenes similar as those shown in the video (I was born in 1958). I have several videos of Puerto Rico on my channel that are more recent. Muchas gracias, Ricardo.
Those wore hard days. My grandfather had a nice farm.Do you know anything about Operation Bootstrap? In my opinion was a good program. I agree with most of what you said. Best wishes.
@@donald8354 Hi, yes I do know about Operation Bootstrap. It was as you say, a good program at the end of WWII. It catapulted the industrialization of Puerto Rico and ending the dependence of the sugar industry as the islands main crop of export. Have a happy new year!
Thanks. Remember the Young Lords!!!
Es una pena que hayas escrito tu mensaje en inglés.
Only thing they teach kids nowadays is celebrity worship and consumerism, not self sustainability.
Good video! Beautiful well dressed hard working people! The dress code changed when the wide tee shirts and pants appeared. Before that they knew how to dress well even to go visit a friend!
These were good times, a totally different PR. No corruption, respectful people, natural family, no narcs, no killings, no contamination, etc..
you need to add hugger, poverty, oppression, illiteracy and lack of medicines and health care facilities.
For sure! At that time there were only Puerto Ricans on the island until the freeloader aliens started getting to the island through the back door full of drugs, bad habits and empty pockets to be a burden and contribute with nothing.
@@mindy2215
The moronic war on drugs has devastated the island more than 100 hurricane Marias ever could.
It needs to end and drugs need to be decriminalized. Decriminalized not legalized as that another headache. Let drugs become a social problem and not a criminal one again.
Why do some churches want to keep the killing going is beyond my comprehension.
I'm certain that the moment the war on drugs comes to an end crime would be reduced to 95%
@@RoyCyberPunk Drugs arrive on the island through the freeloaders aliens. A governor with a hard hand on immigration and drugs control is what the island needs. If they control them by air or any other way, the problem will be reduced, for sure.
@@andith
Nope. Been there done that.
Decriminalization is the only way.
Who are you talking exactly about when you say "freeloader" aliens?
The Dominicans?
That's a nice overgeneralization you got there compay.
The Federal and state governments have incentivized state dependency on the island for Generations so is not just aliens mind you.
The welfare nanny state also needs to end.
A man cutting Sugar Cane wearing a tie? 🤣
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Mallorca 💖 Puerto Rico
Hermanas por siempre
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WOW...Acabo de toparme con este interesante documental tan hermoso sobre mi amada patria puertorriqueña y de verdad que sentí un ORGULLO ver lo que siempre hemos sido, un país trabajador, emprendedor y actualizado en TODAS las facetas. Creo que antes era mejor que ahora y qué HERMOSOS SOMOS los puertorriqueños, nuestras raíces europeas se ven en cada rostro, herencia de nuestra madre patria España y a pesar que somos territorio estadounidense seguimos con nuestro orgullo español. Siendo una pequeña isla pero sin nada que envidiar a países mas grandes en extensión territorial, siempre hemos estado en TODO, modernos y actualizados aunque los envidiosos y chismosos digan lo contrario. ¡PUERTO RICO, mi ORGULLO! 🇵🇷 🌺
Muchas gracias, me alegra que le haya gustado!
Donde he nacido yo🎶❤
Hardcore american propaganda at the expense of our culture!
Dang. Well, I work in *Hollywood.* We shoot everything at everyone else's expense. Guess you already know (deep down) The Financial Investing World needs to see a new Positive-Take *Puerto* *Rican* Docu _Ahora Mismo._
Hey I’m the son of a Puerto Rican father of white European decent. I’m far from being a politically correct person but where in the hell are the Puerto Rican’s of African decent in this documentary. Its sad. Not right.
this is a propaganda film as far as your statement of a puerto rican of a father of european decent our people can not be divided by our complextions i am very light complextion so is my sister my mother was brown skin and so was my father infact myself and my sister are the only light complextion family members among my relatives we as a people are more taino and yoruba the european please study your history and take a real close look at your puerto rican people and you will see these genitic features
I think we are more in agreement than not. I find it regrettable that the film erased people of African decent from Puerto Rico’s history. As for my genetic description it is based on DNA scientific analysis I do not have Taino genetic DNA. If I did I would be proud. I will however take your advice and continue to study my unique background , culturally , historically and genetically. Thanks for your comment. Best to you.
Nelson A. As far as genetical test are concerned they are not always 100 percent correct I have friends who have taken different genetic exams and they have received different results from each company the Tamil gene is referred to as the geno genie that genie is present in 70 percent of the Puerto Rican people because of hundreds of years of racism we have been conditioned to reject our Indian and African hermitage thankfully there is a present movement among Puerto Rican’s presently to get back to our Taino roots and culture and I wholeheartedly welcome that in the world of today we Latinos are classified as either white or black which is completely misleading as to what we are scientists today realize that people cannot be divided into races by their complexions I am 60 years old and for decades I have been fighting these misleading classifications but unfortunately these forms of racism have deeply been in implanted in our minds and hearts to our detriment
Why the hell would you say that you’re the son of a Puerto Rican father? You should just say I’m Puerto Rican. What’s wrong with you
Hello David , My mother is not Puerto Rican so then you find yourself saying well I’m half Puerto Rican and that offends some people. Also to simply say I’m Puerto and not include my moms ancestors can also be disrespectful. It’s complicated. I am proud of my Puerto Rican roots. I’m sorry I disappointed you.
Lo estoy viendo todavía. Waoo què Hermoso
Who’s here after the earthquakes?
Esa es mi gente linda de Puerto Rico. Wow! por todo lo difícil que eran esos trabajos y sin embargo la juventud de hoy día le pesa hasta levantarse del sofá. Los padres llaman a sus hijos para hacer algo y ellos enseguida dicen “ya mismo voy” y ese ya mismo se convierten en media hora y una hora. Sin embargo la juventud de antes iba más rápido que lijero a donde sus padres.El chancletazo estaba a la vuelta de la esquina.
La culpa la tienen esos juegos de PlayStation y la internet, los celulares Wow! están desarrollando más vagancias en la juventud y hasta los adultos.
Y esto es más cierto que la misma verdad.
Un saludo Boricua desde Miami.
At the time the governor was chosen by the president of the US. So how exactly it was even democratic which is nothing but mob rule anyway?
While I love to see old documentary films like this there is no question that this films were done for propaganda purposes.
It wasn't at all 😔 it was onlt after the 1950s that we got to elect our own governor. And now we've gone back to those days. As the fiscal control board appointed by Obama and their leader "Natalie Jeresko" has now become the de-facto governor. Sonce she can override our constitution, veto laws and enforce basically every political and economic decision. Also we can't vote for the president so we have no democracy at all
PUERTO RICAN WOMEN HAVE ALWAYS BEEN SO BEAUTIFUL!!!
May I ask where you find all the PR footage?
Which ones? I have a lot of videos I filmed myself. The historical ones are available Library of Congress and other sources.
@@RicardoRMedina the old ones, PRRA, 1940’s, Tugwell’s, Chardon’s, Roosevelt’s socialist legacy. And even the other one of Muñoz Marin 1950’s. Im trying to find the root of the socialist reform and what created the cradle of modern Puerto Rico.
Shame doesn't have captions.
Before air conditioning.
Love the music they used here
Awesome video , my dad was born in Aguadilla 1943 .
My mom was born in Las Marias 1944, wish I could go back in time and experience living life there for a couple of weeks vacation, and then come back to current time. Time travel tourism:)
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This film documents the colonialism and ignorance of individuals focused on ego, we should utilize it as tool for education with alternative perspectives
PR's form of governtment in spanish is called FREE ASSOCIATED STATE.
That's a misnomer or more accurately a big lie.
It isn't FREE (free would mean an independent nation)
It isn't ASSOCIATED (to be associated it would have to be an independent nation first and then work out a deal equally beneficial for both sides).
And certainly it isn't a STATE (like New York or California), we all know that. Otherwise there wouldn't be a need for a political party (PNP)
who seeks statehood.
It's a colony, (some call it the oldest colony in the world) and that's why there's a political party and a few other organizations seeking independence.
That's why Washington refused to accept the spanish translation which is ESTADO LIBRE ASOCIADO and decided to call it COMMONWEALTH instead.
Whether that's good or not is up to each person to decide.
The Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico was created in 1952 as a way to circumvent a United Nations decree at the end of WWII that colonialism should end. The English did the same with it's colonies but with much more autonomy.
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Hard working self sustained God fearing people. I guess they needed the U.S to change all that.
The US messed up the agriculture in the island
Bibi from Webster ❤️ here Wepa 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Los Boricuas sufren del sindrome del Estocolmo 😢
❤MI PUERTO RICO AMADO .
NACERIA LAS VECES Q FUERA .❤ MADRE GRACIAS . BENDICIONES
ALL THE AGRICULTURE WENT DOWN THE DRAI WITH THE INDUSTRIALIZATION.
7:58😭😭😭😭 Borinquen mi Eden Te Amo
Dios bendiga Hermosa 🤰💙💜
Qué desfachatez la del gobierno estadounidense queriendo demostrar la democracia en Puerto Rico cuando era y es todavía una colonia explotada. ¿Cuándo se ha visto una colonia democrática?
Waoo
Agüeybaná no era ningún mamao.
I truly despise how these documentaries always highlight those that look European to suit the narrative.
Bueno, para su información aunque usted reniegue, la realidad es que el 60% de los puertorriqueños son de tez blanca por su decendencia europea, busque información y se enterará. No olvide que Puerto Rico fue colonizada por europeos españoles no por africanos.
Remember the Young Lords!
Y pensar q así se vive en cuba hoy y así mismo estuviéramos hoy si nos hubiésemos dado cuenta a tiempo mi papá desde yo niña me dijo NO al comunismo y de la Manoç de de uh I’m
Mija PR no ha mejorado, yo no se donde diache tu vives pero hay gente ahora mismo en la calle y con hambre y todo eso pasando bajo el imperio yankee.
Whoever disliked this has no soul.
PR was better before USA came to still all from us
No me hagas reir. Asegurado vives en USA. Esstados unidos no le robo nada a PR. Saco la isl de las manos de los españoles que esclavizaron y masacraron los indigenas para quedarse con sus tierras. Hipócrita!
@@carlitosgy6 Que envidia que los americanos no querían guisar en tu pais y tu gente se arrastra como las culebras para llegar a que los persigan como perros rabiosos para deportarlos. Compra pastillas contra la envidia las necesitas. .
Jajaja España no descubrió nada pues había indigenas y los esclavizó y masacró para robarles sus tierras. USA no robo nada. España le cesio sus tierras. Los que roban son los arrimados extranjeros que llegan a la isla a vivir del gobierno en vez detrabajar.
El 12 de octubre de 1492 inició el genocidio más grande de la historia. Al menos 90 millones de indígenas fueron exterminados.
Historiadores coinciden que el 12 de octubre, conocido como el día del Descubrimiento de América, el Día de la Raza o el Encuentro de Culturas, no es un fecha para celebrar.
La llegada de los conquistadores españoles al continente americano dio inicio a uno de los genocidios más grandes en la historia de la humanidad. Al menos 90 millones de pobladores de la región fueron exterminados.
El antropólogo brasileño Darcy Ribeiro planteó que a finales del siglo XV, al momento en que arribaron los conquistadores europeos a América, existían aproximadamente 70 millones de indígenas. Un siglo y medio después solo
This cherokee didnt steal anything your the thief...100 million of my ppl were killed for the land you walk on...
@@dianacassinelli9467 Trump did not make fun of anybody, He just did what any other person would have done. He threw paper towels instead of going through people to distribute them one by one. They had fun for a while when it was needed by people who were going through a lot. Human waste haters like you distort facts to boost your envy and ego because Trump is so controversial that if he gives attention to others people start distorting things out of envy or whatever guides them to make bad comments when people are going through a crisis. Shame on your!
DEMOCRACY at work? Democracy in a colonial possession is a contradiction in terms!
Yep, specially when the Governor until 1949 was appointed, instead of being elected.
5:53 oh! the irony of flexing abt US progress and prosperity while a song about widespread poverty plays in the background....is no one going to tell them? 😹
The average American still to this day does not know that Puerto Rico has been a US territory since 1898.☹
@@RicardoRMedina it's hard to believe but your right. They do not :(
this video upsets me
You have to realize it was another time with a different way of thinking. The real value of this documentary is the historic footage presented here.
While I appreciate this production , I can promise you, a jibaro woman that I am, that my mother and grands were not made up. They were barefooted with clothes that were simple. They washed their clothes in the spring, used an outhouse and from what I understand, the people had law. So the machete was used in cases of child harm and other related acts.
The jibaro people rejected colonialism and I cannot see them being so coordinated. My family was illiterate and ignorant but humble and hardworking. I guess in a way this is a washed down take but it is not accurate.
Nosotros somos de todos colores y en este video solo enseñan blancos
Buenos Dias Hermosa 😍
At ET, I have researched this and you dont have a clue about what you are talking about. Everything I said is factual while you are regurgitating what amounts to colonial propaganda.
Find an article from tbe New York times printed around 1903 to 1905 that details much of what I wrote. It clearly says that Puerto Rico was much better off under Spain. The island had never suffered poverty like it was suffering under the US.
Explain to me why unti the last days of 1898 Puerto Rico was receiving a lot of immigrants from Europe? Immigrants do not go to a place that is poverty stricken. These immigrants came from Germany, Italy, Ireland, France and Spain.
Go research it on your own and you will be amazed.
At Georice81, you are the one who don’t know what you are talking about and you are just spreading boldface lies. I am from PR and so are my ancestors. Also studied there and traveled all over and know every little town. PR was a garrison island of the Spanish and as such it had very little manufacturing. The industrial revolution completely missed PR. The only immigrants coming to PR were those running away from other Spanish revolutions in the Caribbean. The US had already a continental railroad. The US already had highways 20 times longer than PR. By the way, the people in PR let the US Army just walk in. There was not even 1 casualty. They did this because most of the commerce at the time was done with the US. Spain was bankrupt at totally corrupt. They never recovered from Napoleons occupation. So stop spreading fake news. Journalists are not historians.
ET look up the Royal Decree of Graces. You will know why so many european other than spanish came to Puerto Rico.
angel rivera what the hell is the royal decree of graces??? You mean gracias? If that is what you mean I read it at the Archivo Nacional de las Indias in Seville. I encourage you to do the same.
@@ET-bg8ru It is too long and complicated l would be writing for hours. Look it up Royal Decree of Graces. "Real cedula de gracia 1815. Among many things it encouraged europeans to emmigrate to Puerto Rico but had to be loyal to Spain. That is why there are surnames in the Island that are French,Corsican,Irish,German Etc. 15 to 17% of surnames in P.R. are French/Corsican. In 1800 the population of P.R. was a little over a hundred thousand and by by 1898 almost a million. That is why we are such a melting pot. People from all regions of Spain came and formed the Criollos mix of natives and blacks and all the europeans that also came. Really from many places including the others you mention. Man even chinese and from Lebanon. Tell me you have never heard of for axample O'neill,Numan,Fas,FarinachI Etcetera Etcetera. We are quite a mixed bunch.
angel rivera want you guys fail to understand is PR was and is a mineral poor country and it is too small for an effective large scale farming operations like in Venezuela, Colombia and or
Cuba. There were immigration from Corsica and the Canaries bit it was small scale. The main purpose of PR was as a military garrison and port to protect the yearly gold and silver sitiado than came from South America and Mexico. In fact those walls in SJ were built with silver from Dan Luis de Potosi in Mexico. The economy of PR at that time totally depended of el sitiado... look it up. PR benefited from Bolivar and Tuissants revolutions though. My family were Canarians that emigrated from Venezuela running away from Bolivar. They ran a sugar plantation in the Southwest along with many canarians that came with them.
Propaganda
Muy hermoso, el año que naci 1941 ,donde habia escases por la guerra, todos trabajanan para sobrevivir😢
I’m not to sure about democracy anymore.. free republic sounds a lot better
Ni locos... sólo hay que ver en la miseria que viven esas republicas sumidas en la pobreza, analfabetismo, sin servicios médicos adecuados, atrasados en todo el sentido de la palabra y huyen hacia la nación americana buscando una mejor calidad de vida. La independencia suena bonito y hasta la han romantisado, llegan con palabras bonitas y de progreso y cuando los líderes los tienen bien agarrados es que comienza a cambiar todo pero de manera negativa atropellando al pueblo, sus derechos, su progreso... SOLO LOS POLÍTICOS PROGRESAN y lo demás que se jodan... ejemplo vivo: CUBA, VENEZUELA, GUATEMALA, HONDURAS, NICARAGUA , COLOMBIA, REP DOMINICANA, etcétera.
@@Aidyn6009 eso es lo q tu piensas 🙇🏽♂️
citizenship?? this is such nonsense...puertorriquenos refused us citizenship, but the us imposed it. nosotros somos Puertorriquenos, we are not gringos & many of us (myself included) have no desire to be "americanos"...que viva Borinquen Libre y Soberano. palante mi gente.
La indenpendencia no sirve.
Why most Puerto Rican back then were white looking?
I think they were picked to show the American public that Puerto Ricans were also Caucasian instead of the Caribbean blend they really are.
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If it wasn't for the USA Puerto Rico would be worse than Honduras, El Salvador, Venezuela and all the other countries! Thank God for America that helped Puerto Rico!
Yeah you sound uneducated
Por k no mencionan de 1950 para atrás .k paso con la masa de de Ponce , aguadillas , Arecibo,lares .y muchas cosas más.Exiten libros.La gente no lee.ojo.
@Da_Find Was the freedom and blood of our men and women worth the experiments they did to us worth it?
Were the deaths of our soldiers fighting in their wars worth it?
Can you just stand their and watch your father abuse your mother and do nothing?
Apparently you can....
How do you know we would end up like those other countries when we never had the chance to rule ourselves? Brainwashed into thinking you're not smart enough or good enough to make your own decisions is part of the US tactics. They destroyed our way of living, our culture and apparently our psyche if you give them praise for all they have done to us. Didn't Maria teach you anything??
De que tu hablas si PR anda sin luz a cada rato, no hay trabajos, las calles estan hechas un desastre, la luz y el agua por las nubes. Los suicidios y asesinatos a lo algarete, la salud mental por el piso. Todo eso pasando bajo el imperio Yankee, porque la realidad es que a los gringos no les importa un jabao como tu y como muchos otros. Despierta mijo porque at the end of the day, you'll never be a true american you're just another second class citizen. The gringos don't even like African Americans, what makes you think they want to help a mestizo like you? We got to keep it real, they are selling the island piece by piece and highly uneducated boot licking people like you are so gullible that think the island will do better once it becomes a state. The congress has said repeatedly that it won't happen, specially since the island owns a shit ton of money that nobody is willing to pay for obvious reasons. So yeah, wake-up the gringos don't want you!
Well if we gotten independence we would been like Cuba who right now suffering even with independence
Where are all the dark completed Puerto Rican’s ? maybe Columbus has discovered them yet. Did the film makers supply the men with the neck ties ?
We would be in the whole without the United States because we do not have natural resources nor the territory to offer anyone anything except for the times of the cold war when the standard of living of the average Puerto Rican surpassed that of any other Latin American country.
It was propaganda, territorial expansion but we got a niece piece of the pie so don't complaint so much nonsense.
We have oil and natural gas....people have just believed this bullshit propaganda while they take everything from us.
Stupid shit!
This was for Gilberto Negron, asimilaoooooooo!
Almost half of Puerto Rican love under the US poverty line
Before Covid-19 America owed over 23 Trillion dollars: Today close to 30.
The whole world is getting poorer by the day and the 1% richer.
Nothing is nor will ever be the same. Capiche Paisano?
BullSh!! Yankee Propaganda
Agreed, I value the film as a visual documentary. It was made for American audiences and it only shows a "whitewashed" view of the Island.