+5 Yes, Puerto Rico is widely considered a colony—or often described as the world’s oldest colony—due to its status as an unincorporated U.S. territory. While residents are U.S. citizens, they lack voting representation in Congress, cannot vote for president,
the orange pedo clearly did not know Puerto Rico was a US territory during his first term… he also did not know it was an island
and this level of brilliance was rewarded with a second term by muricans… so yes, I tend to believe every stat that claims they are mostly ignorants
I’m Native American and some whites don’t think I’m American.
They didn’t know Bad Bunny was a US citizen because they’re ignorant of Puerto Rico.
I didn’t know Bad Bunny was a US citizen because I didn’t know he existed till last week.
We are not the same.
So it’s kinda No Taxation Without Representation situation? Or does that only apply to white people?
While I understand most Americans are apparently racist idiots, I find that stat hard to believe.
In all the hoopla around the halftime show, I never once read anything other than he is Puerto Rican. Not even in the maga content the algorithm insists I want to see (to the extent I didn’t immediately block).
Maybe this is being too pedantic but it would be more believable if
- “73% of Americans don’t understand that puerto ricans are us citizens”. Because we are that dumb.
Replying to that German guy somewhere in the comments - Spanish is spoken all over the us as the second most common language. Certainly anywhere in the south you’ll hear it all the time, but even up here in New England it’s very common. There’s no reason to be surprised by hearing it nor to think they are anything other than Americans who are speaking Spanish
There’s an entire TikTok side, not just one influencer but several, that have centered their accounts around random chat apps where they ask north-americans if America is a continent, for comedy. Now, this is truly just anecdotal, however. I’m talking about several influencers who pump dozens of this kind of videos each, every day. Every video has 2 or 3 video chats, sometimes multiple people per chat. There’s so much content that they are their own hashtag and tiktok sphere, of videos making fun of north americans for not knowing basic geography.
If you ask South Americans, at least some of them will tell you that America is one continent.
The day I told my 3rd graders in Colombia that there were 7 continents, it sparked a conversation I was not expecting (because that is what every social studies textbook said when I was in school in the US). Here, they only count five. That was the day I learned there is not an international consensus about what constitutes a continent.
Here, they only count five.
Which other two get combined or does one get wholly discarded? Like the seven I’m used to are N. America, S.America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia/Oceania and Antarctica. Is Eurasia a single continent to them, does Antarctica or Australia not count, or something else?
Eurasia counts as one continent for my students.
But in some places, apparently they don’t count Antarctica because it isn’t populated by a permanent human civilization.
And if you do try to define object science-based criteria, you get things like New Zealand is a continent
Same thing with planets. Rather appropriately the now-classified-as-a-dwarf-planet named Eris (after the goddess of strife and discord) being discovered was what set the wheels in motion that led to Pluto losing it’s status as a planet.
Quick correction. Puerto Rico, not Puerto Ricans, is politically limited. Any American citizen that chooses to reside in Puerto Rico loses their right to vote (looking at you Paul brothers). Any Puerto Rican that choses to reside in any of the 50 states has the same right to vote as anyone else.
Oh btw, people born in American Samoa are US Nationals but not Citizens
So bascially they’re second-class Citizens. They are allowed to freely travel withing the US, but cannot vote or run for federal office…
Laws are so fucking weird
edit: typo
