Puerto Rican Identity

The definition of identity has been an issue that bring worries to people who feel they are in between two or more cultures and still don’t know where they belong. The article “Who are we? Identities of Stateside and Island Boricuas” was written by Ariana Green in the San Juan City Magazine on 2005. As the title of the article indicates, there is an issue between the identities on both of these groups, about who feels more Puerto Rican. This has been a controversial topic since a long time ago, especially involving the “Nuyorican’s” from the time when the Puerto Rican diaspora started in New York. The real question involving this article is how they make both of these cultures into a more perfect union, as Ariana Green says. The author offers several people’s perspectives that have some experience living in the United States, being
The author presentation of the situation was very accurate since it makes an understanding which states that not all Puerto Rican have the same though. It starts from the definition of identity even if it doesn’t have any formal definition and neither one can name it by certain aspects, but like Reichard said: “There has to be a baseline of something you are doing …or following”. One that gets confused by this definition of identity was Antonio Moreda, when he narrates his story: “In Philadelphia, I encountered people who had Puerto Rican flags outside their bedrooms, lots of Puerto Rican music and were so much more into expressing their Puerto Ricanness than I was”. This is the beginning of the conflict that the author tries to present, the fact that they show too much love for their island. At Puerto Rico that conduct is not seen at all, and if seen, is not common compared to the Puerto Ricans that lived in the United