[PeteB570]

Liked your post.

All over the world small ethnic communities are trying to break away and form their own countries.

Regardless of what happens "now" I see the same for PR in the future. If they want to retain their culture and language then they need to be cut free and make it in the world as an independent country.

PS - Just my opinion but it's the US's import/export laws that are keeping most Caribbean nations in grinding poverty. Sugar anyone?

[Teófilo]

Regardless of what happens "now" I see the same for PR in the future. If they want to retain their culture and language then they need to be cut free and make it in the world as an independent country.

I see no fundamental incompatibility between Puerto Rican and mainland culture. We've been part of this for almost 110 years and both have survived, heck, increased each other good and badly, but that's humanity for you.

Nationalism is impracticable. One has to hate "the foreigner" in order to be a "nationalist." I don't want a Puerto Rico ruled by the whims of nationalists any more than I want to see the USA in the grips of the same ilk.

The true future is in the Union, Cooperation, and Interdependence that only admission to the US as a state can bring. Ergo, the only conservative, morally consequent position that is true to our founding ideals is to admit Puerto Rico as a State, the sooner the better.

-Theo