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Title: Puerto Rican
Category: full of life
Blog Entry: Okay, so I want to know why Spanish, Puerto Rican, White, Black, Greek, Indian, Cuban... whoever, always call me a white girl? Just because I don't dress, talk or act like they do does not mean I am white, Nor am I ashamed of where I come from! No matter what clothes I wear, No matter how I speak, or where I live I WILL ALWAYS BE PUERTO RICAN! I listen to Spanish music, I eat Spanish food, I Speak Spanish.. I may speak english around everyone else thats just because I only speak in spanish with my older relatives. They don't know english that well, and they refuse to speak in english to me and my cousins. I am tired of being called a white girl because I listen to rock music.. I can listen to whatever I want that doesn't change my love or attitude towards my own heritage! Sometimes people make me feel bad when I hang out with my white friends or go to a rock concert, It is just music and clothes are just clothes they do not define me nor do they choose my heritage for me they do not make me who i am nor will they tell you where I have been. I simply wish people would stop judging, stop with "you can;t hang out with other races or be close to them because they aren't like us." It simply makes me sad when my puerto rican friends get jealous that I hang out with others, I get it puerto ricans need to stick together, and I believe in that I really do, but that does not mean I cannot be friends or date someone from another race/ethnicity. Standing up for puerto rican rights I am there in the forefront, I am involved in Puerto Rican/Spanish clubs, I love being Puerto Rican, I just wish that the people loved me back.. I love going to Puerto Rico and visiting my family every summer, But I hate the prejuidice I recieve because I am American Born! Seriously, I did not choose to be born in America! If I had the choice I would have loved to grow up in Puerto Rico to be there everyday, I love it there, I can't wait to go back. I just wish that Puerto Ricans could just learn to love eachother and stick up for one another instead of tearing eachother apart. In the long run we only have ourselves and everyone else against us, we need to stop being against eachother.   Another thing that makes me sad, Is YOUNGer Puerto Ricans getting mixed up in gangs, drugs, violence and dropping out of schools, getting pregnant at a young age. I myself am 19 about to 20 years old, I am in college I dont want to drop out and get pregnant and be stuck with a child/family and without a life forever. My mother, my grandmother, and my great grandmother all had their children at 19 got married really young. my mother had me with my dad at 19 but they never married she became a single mother. she told me how hard it was for her and still is to get a job because she doesnt have an education. I told myself I would not be like my mother, grandmother, and greatgrandmother .. in that perspective. I would break the cycle and start a new one. I am turning 20 in two months.. so far no baby or sign of pregnancy (thank the lord) but when i look around my campus, all i see are white people and blacks.. where are my Puerto Ricans at? there are maybe 100-200 of us on campus out of 11,000 students! many of my Puerto Rican/Spanish friends either have kids or dropped out because they needed to help out their family, so they got a job instead. I get it, its hard at times, but seriously girls start closing up your legs, start going to school, get some good grades, stop caring about boy drama and girl drama, that will not help you in the future honey. Boys seriosly wear some protection, you may love her now, but what about tomorow? what about that other girl you love oh so much.. we are young we are not supposed to be having kids and growing up! we are supposed to go to school and do right. please Puerto Rican youth .. break the cycle.. parents please teach your kids the imporance of school and protection and birth control. especially with little girls maturing so young and boys as well because of all the hormones the government puts in our food..   god bless everyone, please be safe and talk to your children please do, they are the future of this world and though it may be going down, maybe it can be saved because you talked to your child.