In honor of my love for the game of beisbol and my disdain for ethnocentric humans, I have decided to explore the topic of what it's like to be me....a Puerto Rican, a person who is not monolingual, a person who always felt different growing up, but yet never out of place because I knew I would always be safe in a home that preserved and valued Boricua culture and customs.
As some of you may not care to acknowledge, the World Baseball Classic is currently going on with 7 Latin countries respresenting dozens of the greatest beisbol players in the world. I pulled down the pics (several players had no pics on the site I was at) of the majority of the Puerto Rican players on the Puerto Rican national team. As you can clearly see, the colors of the melanin rainbow permeate and the untrained eye would not be able to distinguish each and everyone one of these guys as being "Puerto Rican". The ignorance to ethnicity and culture is fascinating to me. I must admit that I have fallen into the trap before myself when looking at people from many of the Asian cultures. "They all look the same...." is something I have been guilty of thinking before. I know that observation is far from saying or thinking that my own culture is supreme, but I digress for now...Anyway, my point of this post was to show several of the Boricua players and how atypical they may seem to the unPuertoRican eyes out there......Go PR!!!!!!!!!!!
3.07.2006
What does a Puerto Rican look like?
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They all look the same... :P
I guess I'm one of those who don't care to acknowledge.
Remind me of all the albanians in pro sports......Not just US sports either.....
Ballet and orchestra does not count! :p
Oh...you had to go there, didn't you? I had no intention of disrespecting Ricans, but...OK, let's give you a wikipedian lesson then:
1. what's your definition of "professional?"
2. I wasn't aware that Albania is part of the U.S. of A.
3. Tae Domi (Toronto Maple Leafs) is Albanian
4. A guy who played with the US Olympic volleyball team is Albanian
5. Is shooting a professional sport? Cause we're pretty good at that - both at the Olympic range and on the street :P
I always hate when I get the statement, "Oh, you don't look Puerto Rican."
I always come back with, "What is a Puerto Rican supposed to look like?"
Never do get an answer.
some times we all do look the same!!!
Lost to Cuba! At least it was not Korea.
Yeah...I know...It was a tough thing to see...
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