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Puerto Ricans (Spanish: Puertorriqueños), [11] [12] most commonly known as Boricuas, [a] [13] but also occasionally referred to as Borinqueños, Borincanos, [b] or Puertorros, [c] [14] are an ethnic group native to the Caribbean archipelago and island of Puerto Rico, and a nation identified with the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico through ancestry, culture, or history.
Puerto Rico: Puerto Rican Boricua [53] Spanish: Puertorriqueño, puertorriqueña Rhode Island: Rhode Islander Swamp Yankee [54] South Carolina: South Carolinian Sandlapper [55] Spanish: Sudcarolino, sudcarolina South Dakota: South Dakotan Spanish: Sudakotense Tennessee: Tennessean Volunteer, Butternut [56] Big Bender Texas: Texan
People with Indigenous heritage in Puerto Rico may call themselves Boricua, after the Indigenous word for the island, as well as or instead of Taíno. Local Taíno/Boricua groups have also begun attempts to reconstruct a distinct Taíno language, called Taíney , often extrapolating from other Arawakan languages and using a modified version of ...
Distinct Puerto Rican words like "jevo,", "jurutungo" and "perreo" have been submitted to Spain's Royal Academy- considered the global arbiter of the Spanish language.
Cacique of yucayeque around Culebrinas river in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rican anthropologist Ricardo Alegría suggests that the proper pronunciation and name of the cacique was Aymaco, with Aymamón being a way of designating the cacique that ruled over the region called Aymamio, or possibly just a misunderstanding of the name's adequate ...
Puerto Rican migration trends since 2006 have been highly complex: New York State gained more Puerto Rican migrants from Puerto Rico (31% of the mainland total) as well as from elsewhere on the mainland (20% of interstate moves) between 2006 and 2012 than any other U.S. state, in absolute numbers, even while the southern United States gained ...
Eventually reggaeton, a Puerto Rican break-off of original Spanish reggae, became very popular throughout Latin America, the Caribbean, the US and Spain. Puerto Rican artists helped create Salsa music with Cuban artists, and also helped Dominican artists with the development of Merengue.
A comedian called Puerto Rico an "island of garbage" at a New York City rally for former President Donald Trump.. Tony Hinchcliffe, known as "Kill Tony," went on to insult Latinos − even those ...