Word: rican
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...toddler in leopard-skin coat and hat stirred in his stroller. The Puerto Rican team hurriedly consulted as to how to wear their capes. A huge circle -- the whole town, it seemed -- formed in the street to greet the Olympic flame. And then planes colored the sky, bells tolled through a dream of a blue afternoon, the sun set behind the mountains amid a spangle of fireworks, and the opening ceremonies of the 16th Olympic Winter Games were officially under...
...chanted approximately 650,000 voices in Puerto Rico last Sunday, drowning out the aphonic sounds of the "Si" supporters to close a sorry chapter of our island's history. By opposing amendments to the Puerto Rican constitution, statehooders and their supporters dealt a severe blow to advocates for Puerto Rico's political rights and national identity, defeating them by a seven percent margin...
...objective was to force Congress to grapple with the constitutional implications on a concrete, tangible level. No longer would these qualifiers be bandied about in an abstract, questionable plane. If Congress later decided to negate these fundamental rights, for which the Puerto Rican people had expressed such strong feelings, then the U.S. alone would be responsible for discriminating against its own citizens and perpetuating colonialism...
...rational person can realize that the argument falls flat given that the two issues are wholly incongruous. Yet the Puerto Rican electorate mixed la gimnasia con la magnesia, (apples with oranges) and fell prey to the specter of a worsening social crisis. If their aim was to kick the governor out, they should have waited until the '92 elections, rather than compromise their identity...
Among Black students, there are variations in skin color. There are also Caribbean Blacks with a different culture from African Blacks or African-American Blacks. Hispanics include those with Mexican, Puerto Rican and Spanish parents. Native Americans have tribal differences...