2006-12-27 13:22:29 · 12 answers · asked by amanda 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
What difference does it make? Everybody is human. There are no pure races anymore. People have so intermarried over the centuries race is nothing. According to the One Drop Rule, if you have one drop of black African blood in you, you are considered black anyway.
People from the Caucus mountains are referred to as "darkies" and they are classified as Caucasians. Take Queen Sophie Charlotte of Germany, her father was an African, she looks nearly white..and was the great grandmother of Queen Elizabeth of England. It's all in genetics as to what a person may or may not look like, even within families of brothers and sisters.
2006-12-27 13:31:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Puerto Rico was a melting pot long before there even was an America. And the descendants of the settlers of so long ago reflect the genetic material of Indians, Europeans, Africans, etc. Just like the mainland. Only their heritage is primarily of spanish origin while most of us in the continental US are anglo-saxon. But ofcourse that is rapidly changing.
I can tell you one thing. If I could be young again I would try my best to get a Puerto Rican girlfriend. Those women are drop dead gorgeous!
2006-12-27 21:31:52 · answer #2 · answered by Tom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Puerto Ricans are of many different ethnic backgrounds.
I was born in the US to Puerto Rican parents. My mothers father was from Spain, while My fathers mothers mother was African.
What am I?
I'm the american born citizen, who fluents two languages, has fair skin that tans with no assistance, possess the hair people pay for, the curves most men dream of dirfting, and i am proud!
2006-12-28 07:33:35 · answer #3 · answered by sally1068 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Puerto Rico is similar to the United States in the sense that
it's population is made up of all type of ethnic background.
There are towns there that are made up mostly of people of Italian descent and some of them still carry that accent when they talk Spanish. You see names like Pandolfini , Franceschinni , etc. You also have people of Jewish descent shepardics that came from Spain , my parents were Jews from Barcelona ,Spain that moved here to America and well, Jews are Jews wherever they go but that is different story..You also have descendants from north American who came to P.R. after the Spanish-American war. You have blacks that were slaves and later were freed and that lives mostly along the coast where the sugar cane mills were.And last but not least you also have mulattoes.
2006-12-27 21:45:02 · answer #4 · answered by danshalom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
since racial categories are socially constructed, there's no real determination....my guess is that most puerto ricans are a mixture of the indigenous (native american) population that lived there when the europeans came and europeans. also possibly blacks if they ever had many slaves imported there.
2006-12-27 21:26:28 · answer #5 · answered by Sufi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who cares... they're Puerto Rican thats all that matters. Im getting really tired of these dumb racial questions. Get a life!!!
2006-12-27 22:19:45 · answer #6 · answered by GlitznGlamour 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
exactly puerto ricans are puerto ricans like im romanian and not white black mullatto comon
2006-12-27 21:27:27 · answer #7 · answered by sunshine 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im puerto rican and Im a mulata.
2006-12-27 21:28:18 · answer #8 · answered by Who Loves Ya Babe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know they aren't black or mulatto.
2006-12-27 22:09:44 · answer #9 · answered by Gountha aka Triana 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are Spanish dessent.
2006-12-27 21:38:23 · answer #10 · answered by robert m 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋