(Closed) Are Puerto Ricans American citizens?

• MsAfarian
• 3 years ago

• Wedding: June 2017

I’m not even from the US and I’m pretty sure I know the answer.. Curious though as to what the national average is? 😛

• wildflowerz
• 3 years ago

Me too, what’s the national average?  

• hikingbride
• 3 years ago

• Wedding: August 2016

I didn’t realize people didn’t know this…

• beethree
• 3 years ago

hikingbride :  It’s really sad, isn’t it? 

• eeniebeans
• 3 years ago

• Wedding: October 2010

So pathetic that this just isn’t a given.

• MrsHarryDresden
• 3 years ago

• Wedding: November 2013

• ohnoitslindsay
• 3 years ago

• Wedding: July 2017

Do people think it’s a trick question?

• Robyn0214
• 3 years ago

• Wedding: November 2009 - New York, NY

• MrsBeck
• 3 years ago

• Wedding: June 2013

I do know the answer but I can also understand why people might feel as though this is a “trick” question.

• kiram
• 3 years ago

I think the confusion comes from the fact that Puerto Rico is an unincorperated US territory, so legally speaking it’s not part of the US…yet they’re in the possession of the US, and while they have US citizenship, they have less benefits than mainland citizens such as less voting rights and access to some government programs. So they’re more like second-class citizens. It’s pretty sad and they should just become a proper state already, imo. Anyway, I think some people’s confusion is pretty justified over that. 

• j_jaye
• 3 years ago

kiram :  I am not American but knew the answer. I also find a hell of a lot of Americans do not know the history of the treatment of Puerto Ricans by the US. Like for instance the fact that country was used as a weapons testing facility that has left a wave of devestation to which the US government has turned their backs on. The US is one of the many countries that still actively practice colonisation and subjection of native peoples. 

• karen12
• 3 years ago

• Wedding: March 2011

The people of Puerto Rico voted overwhelmingly in a non binding resolution this year to become a state.  It’s time for that to happen.  USVI, Guam, and American Samoa, too.

• karen12
• 3 years ago

• Wedding: March 2011

Robyn0214 :  Brilliant