Re: Playing the race card
Bruce,
What does Puerto Rico have to do with anything ? Hmm?
Puerto Rican's are , by law, U.S. citizens and can move freely to the U.S. anytime they feel like it.
The only "right" they do not yet have, is being able to vote in
U.S. NATIONAL ELECTIONS. they can and do vote in their own countries elections. If they voted in a decent group of people they could have a great country.
They have their own government.
No one is stopping Puerto Ricans from economically developing their homeland.
As a one-time Spanish colony, they have engrained within them a Spanish/Hispanic way of thinking, just the same as the Philippines, Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Cuba, and all of the northern portion of South America.
That thinking is "manana". It means , tomorrow. In other words, why do today, what you can put off until tomorrow.
That's just the way it is. The white man is in no way responsible for those countries way of thinking. It's a heritage of ancient times.
It's a curious thing. Former British colonies, for the most part, are now rapidly advancing. Just look at Hong Kong and Singapore. Both of them are economic power houses.
Now, look at former Spanish colonies. Are any of them economically stable, let alone power houses ? Heck no !
If you had lived in any of those countries, as I have, you would understand how they think. Graft and corruption prevail. Time means nothing.
Even the most basic of business sense is totally lacking. At every single store near me, in Mexico, they don't understand that they need to be able to make proper change following a customers purchase. If I go to Calimax, a
large supermarket, they rarely have change for even a small Mexican peso paper bill (50 peso note).
If I buy a single carton of milk, costs 18 peso (about 1 USD) I could be forced to accept 32 individual Mexican coins in change, instead of two 20 peso notes, and one 2 peso coin.
Seriously, how do they ever expect to advance if something so basic eludes them ?
Blame it on the white man. Right ?