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Non-Spanish cultural diversity in Puerto Rico and the basic foundation of Puerto Rican culture began with the mixture of the Spanish-Portuguese (catalanes, gallegos, andaluces, sefardíes, mozárabes, romani et al.), Taíno Arauak and African (Yoruba, Bedouins, Egyptians, Ethiopians, Moroccan Jews, et al.) cultures in the beginning of the 16th century.
Rooster fighting is a sport that has been part of the Puerto Rican culture for centuries. In 1845, Manuel Alonso , in his book El Gíbaro , wrote that maybe a barrio could lack a church, but no barrio of Puerto Rico lacked a cockfighting venue.
Puerto Rican culture in the United States (3 C, 17 P, 1 F) W. Works about Puerto Rico (2 C, 4 P)
Puerto Rican Spiritists were social darwinists and extrapolated this to a spiritual plane, where each subsequent incarnation would mean advance towards "perfection". By 1878, Francisco del Valle Atiles became concerned that the popularity that spiritism was gaining within the poor was misrepresenting it in unscientific and irrational ways by ...
The Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña (English: Institute of Puerto Rican Culture), or ICP for short, is an institution of the Government of Puerto Rico responsible for the establishment of the cultural policies required in order to study, preserve, promote, enrich, and diffuse the cultural values of Puerto Rico. [1]
Hispanic Heritage Month is from Sept.15-Oct. 15. It honors history and culture while emphasizing the importance of identity and representation.
The Puerto Rican cuatro, a staple of jibaro music. Jíbaro culture is also characterized by its own typical Puerto Rican folk music, commonly termed "jíbaro music". [12] "Jíbaro music and dance was the principal musical expression of the humble and hardworking mountain people who worked the coffee plantations and inland farms of Puerto Rico."
Puerto Ricans (Spanish: Puertorriqueños), [12] [13] most commonly known as Boricuas, [a] [14] but also occasionally referred to as Borinqueños, Borincanos, [b] or Puertorros, [c] [15] 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.