9 thoughts on “What kind of history are Puerto Ricans learning on the island?”
what about stateside?
what kind of history are we learning here? none about P.R. unless we make the effort. if not all we get is the kind of stereotyping that does more harm than good. but what are they learning on the island? i would think, given our colonial history, they would be learning u.s. history.
Foro de Escritores Puertorriquenos
Saludos:
Acaba de aparecer una nueva edición del boletín de Los Escritores Puertorriqueños en el Extranjero. Revista Cibernética producida por escritores puertorriqueños contemporáneos para los puertorriqueños de hoy en día.
Si usted quiere disfrutar de una buena lectura de poesías, cuentos y ensayos inéditos en español que no podrá leer en ninguna otra parte y sentir ese gran orgullo de ser puertorriqueño lea la pagina de Los Escritores Puertorriqueños en el Extranjero en http://www.escritorespuertorriquenos.org/
Además te ofrecemos un foro para que expreses tus inquietudes y tu voz pueda ser escuchada por otros como tu, que tal vez tienen las mismas inquietudes y preocupaciones.
Léalo y recomiéndelo a su familiares, amigos y colegas.
Please recommend it to your family, friends, and associates.
History of Puerto Rican historiograpy & education
It comes as no surprise that we are taught an imperial history that overshadows our own. I would like to see a history of Puerto Rican historiography. Any information about this?
RE: History of Puerto Rican historiograpy & education
AS IN ANY EMPIRE. HISTORY IS TAUGHT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE CONQUERORS. THE CONQUERORS ARE BENEVOLENT AND BENIGN AND THE COLONIZED ARE BACKWARD AND UNEDUCATED. HISTORY AS IS TAUGHT TO PUERTO RICAN CHILDREN WTH HERE IN THE U.S OR ON THE ISLAND HAS A PRO-AMERICAN STANCE. THIS APPROACH HAS BRAINWASHED THE POPULACE INTO BELEIVING THAT BORIQUAS CAN NEVER BECOME AN INDEPENDENT NATION, WHICH OF COURSE IS FARCE. SINCE 1898 THIS POINT OF VIEW HAS BEEN THE NORM BUT PUERTO RICANS HAVE CULTURALLY REGECTED TOTAL AMERICANIZATION BY CONTINUING SPEAKING SPANISH ALBEIT WITH LOTS OF SPANGLISH AND AT TIMES CODE SWITCHING. A MORE OBJECTIVE TYPE OF HISTORY LESSON SHOULD BE INITIATED IN ORDER TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE DONE THAT DOES NOT DEMONIFY INDEPENDENCE AND FREE ASSOCIATION AS VIABLE OPTIONS FOR THE PUERTO RICAN PEOPLE. AFTER THIS HAPPENS YOU WOULD SEE THE PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE BELIEVING IN INDEPENDENCEOR FREE ASSOCIATION RISE AND THE CURRENT COMMONWEALTH(COLONY)AND STATEHOOD(ASSIMILATIONISTS) NUMBERS DROP.
I agree but this is the point from which we begin
Basically, if you were to go to the current exhibition in la galeria here which I just did and click on the work of Miguel Luciano, you would discover an revealing perspective and insight offered by this artist.
He calls Puerto Rico a fantastic consumer society and asks why when 70% live below the poverty level, JC Penney and other American companies have their highest sales there?
Being a colony means you consume that which you do not make, and that you buy more than you sell.
And we buy into a lot of things the U.S. dumps on us. It is unfortunate that we do not have any objective histories on Puerto RIco–that is, that maintain a critical posture with a heavy emphasis on research. P.R. histories are rhetorical perspectives that push a particular ideology and exploit myth.
These are works that need textual and historical analyses. Textual in the way that literature is analyzed and historical to test their veracity or rather documentation.
Until P.R. learns (and I guess it will have to be the hard way) that rampant consumerism is a symptom of uneven development and instability, rather than development, it will subject its people to the same abuses the U.S. subjects its own people. Just look at them at the malls. What does any of this have to do with Christmas?
RE: History of Puerto Rican historiograpy & education
This is the problem with countries today. There is no respect for the U.S. at all. Nobody wants to really help the U.S. fight a war with Iraq. Nobody ever has our back. So when terrorists start blowing up other countries, we will just say deal with it like you sissy countries.
RE: RE: History of Puerto Rican historiograpy & education
Stop being so jealous of the U.S. Maybe if you countries knew how to appropriate money and stop corruption, you would be a superpower in the world, but you are not because you do not want to help your own selves. You want someone else to help you like a sissy girl. Grow up Puerto Ricans and get some strength.
Maybe you should ask yourself why
Maybe you should ask yourself why there is no respect for the U.S., although, I wouldn’t characterize the growing antagonism between us and the rest of the world simply a matter of respect.
Countries do not exist in a vacuum, however much we want to believe we are tthe chosen and, therefore, entitled to take what we please. what you call terrorism needs examining just as much as what you call respect.
Also, your use of the term sissy doesn’t seem to serve any purpose but to prove once more the low mentality that blindly supports destructive foreign policies that lack foresight and long-term planning.
I’m sure you neither know what the word “historiography” means nor own a dictionary with which to learn its meaning.
Poor ignorant and immature soul
You should truly travel and try to stay away from the MacDonald’s and KFC’s abroad. Go to local spots where people who live in the countries you visit go. Open your eyes and ears and learn. Also, grow up. I believe you must be or have the emotional age of a nine year old. How old are you? Hopefully there is time for you to study, learn and mature intellectually and emotionally. “Sissy”? What? Who uses words like this any more?
what about stateside?
what kind of history are we learning here? none about P.R. unless we make the effort. if not all we get is the kind of stereotyping that does more harm than good. but what are they learning on the island? i would think, given our colonial history, they would be learning u.s. history.
Foro de Escritores Puertorriquenos
Saludos:
Acaba de aparecer una nueva edición del boletín de Los Escritores Puertorriqueños en el Extranjero. Revista Cibernética producida por escritores puertorriqueños contemporáneos para los puertorriqueños de hoy en día.
Si usted quiere disfrutar de una buena lectura de poesías, cuentos y ensayos inéditos en español que no podrá leer en ninguna otra parte y sentir ese gran orgullo de ser puertorriqueño lea la pagina de Los Escritores Puertorriqueños en el Extranjero en http://www.escritorespuertorriquenos.org/
Además te ofrecemos un foro para que expreses tus inquietudes y tu voz pueda ser escuchada por otros como tu, que tal vez tienen las mismas inquietudes y preocupaciones.
Haga click en nuestro link http://www.escritorespuertorriquenos.org/ para visitarnos
Léalo y recomiéndelo a su familiares, amigos y colegas.
Please recommend it to your family, friends, and associates.
History of Puerto Rican historiograpy & education
It comes as no surprise that we are taught an imperial history that overshadows our own. I would like to see a history of Puerto Rican historiography. Any information about this?
RE: History of Puerto Rican historiograpy & education
AS IN ANY EMPIRE. HISTORY IS TAUGHT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE CONQUERORS. THE CONQUERORS ARE BENEVOLENT AND BENIGN AND THE COLONIZED ARE BACKWARD AND UNEDUCATED. HISTORY AS IS TAUGHT TO PUERTO RICAN CHILDREN WTH HERE IN THE U.S OR ON THE ISLAND HAS A PRO-AMERICAN STANCE. THIS APPROACH HAS BRAINWASHED THE POPULACE INTO BELEIVING THAT BORIQUAS CAN NEVER BECOME AN INDEPENDENT NATION, WHICH OF COURSE IS FARCE. SINCE 1898 THIS POINT OF VIEW HAS BEEN THE NORM BUT PUERTO RICANS HAVE CULTURALLY REGECTED TOTAL AMERICANIZATION BY CONTINUING SPEAKING SPANISH ALBEIT WITH LOTS OF SPANGLISH AND AT TIMES CODE SWITCHING. A MORE OBJECTIVE TYPE OF HISTORY LESSON SHOULD BE INITIATED IN ORDER TO REPAIR THE DAMAGE DONE THAT DOES NOT DEMONIFY INDEPENDENCE AND FREE ASSOCIATION AS VIABLE OPTIONS FOR THE PUERTO RICAN PEOPLE. AFTER THIS HAPPENS YOU WOULD SEE THE PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE BELIEVING IN INDEPENDENCEOR FREE ASSOCIATION RISE AND THE CURRENT COMMONWEALTH(COLONY)AND STATEHOOD(ASSIMILATIONISTS) NUMBERS DROP.
I agree but this is the point from which we begin
Basically, if you were to go to the current exhibition in la galeria here which I just did and click on the work of Miguel Luciano, you would discover an revealing perspective and insight offered by this artist.
He calls Puerto Rico a fantastic consumer society and asks why when 70% live below the poverty level, JC Penney and other American companies have their highest sales there?
Being a colony means you consume that which you do not make, and that you buy more than you sell.
And we buy into a lot of things the U.S. dumps on us. It is unfortunate that we do not have any objective histories on Puerto RIco–that is, that maintain a critical posture with a heavy emphasis on research. P.R. histories are rhetorical perspectives that push a particular ideology and exploit myth.
These are works that need textual and historical analyses. Textual in the way that literature is analyzed and historical to test their veracity or rather documentation.
Until P.R. learns (and I guess it will have to be the hard way) that rampant consumerism is a symptom of uneven development and instability, rather than development, it will subject its people to the same abuses the U.S. subjects its own people. Just look at them at the malls. What does any of this have to do with Christmas?
RE: History of Puerto Rican historiograpy & education
This is the problem with countries today. There is no respect for the U.S. at all. Nobody wants to really help the U.S. fight a war with Iraq. Nobody ever has our back. So when terrorists start blowing up other countries, we will just say deal with it like you sissy countries.
RE: RE: History of Puerto Rican historiograpy & education
Stop being so jealous of the U.S. Maybe if you countries knew how to appropriate money and stop corruption, you would be a superpower in the world, but you are not because you do not want to help your own selves. You want someone else to help you like a sissy girl. Grow up Puerto Ricans and get some strength.
Maybe you should ask yourself why
Maybe you should ask yourself why there is no respect for the U.S., although, I wouldn’t characterize the growing antagonism between us and the rest of the world simply a matter of respect.
Countries do not exist in a vacuum, however much we want to believe we are tthe chosen and, therefore, entitled to take what we please. what you call terrorism needs examining just as much as what you call respect.
Also, your use of the term sissy doesn’t seem to serve any purpose but to prove once more the low mentality that blindly supports destructive foreign policies that lack foresight and long-term planning.
I’m sure you neither know what the word “historiography” means nor own a dictionary with which to learn its meaning.
Poor ignorant and immature soul
You should truly travel and try to stay away from the MacDonald’s and KFC’s abroad. Go to local spots where people who live in the countries you visit go. Open your eyes and ears and learn. Also, grow up. I believe you must be or have the emotional age of a nine year old. How old are you? Hopefully there is time for you to study, learn and mature intellectually and emotionally. “Sissy”? What? Who uses words like this any more?