Pre-Reading questions:
1. What's the difference between a Boricua and a Puerto Rican?
2. How do you think Puerto Ricans identify themselves? (Boricua/Puerto Rican)? WHY?
3. Why are Puerto Ricans called Boricuas? What are the connotations (An idea or meaning suggested by or associated with a word) of both (negative and postive)?
BORICUA by Tato Laviera
ReplyDeletewe are a people
who love to love
we are loving lovers who love to love respect,
the best intentions of friendship,
and we judge from the moment on, no matter who you are, and if we find sincere smiles,
we can be friends, and, if we have a drink together, we can be brothers, on the spot,
no matter who you are, and we have a lot of black and white and yellow and red people whom we befriend, we're ready to love with you, that's why we say, let there be no prejudice,
on race, color is
generally color-blind with us, that's our contribution, all the colors are tied to our one, but we must fight the bad intentions we must respect each other's values, but guess what, we're not the only ones, and we offer what your love has taught us, and what you're worth in our self-respect, we are a people who love to love who are loving lovers who love to love respect.
Questions:
ReplyDelete1. What do you think the poem is about? why?
2. Who are 'we'? What is the significance of using this?
3. Are the Speaker and the author the same person? How do you know?
4. What is the speaker's tone? How does he feel about a Boricua?
5. List the character traits of a Boricua.
6. What colors do Boricuas have a lot of? Why fo Boricuas have all these colors?
7. What are the bad intentions?
8. Why "aren't we the only ones"?
Lionel Aneudy Escobales Filippetti
ReplyDelete1) Puerto Rican is a person who is born anywhere on the world from puerto rican parents. A boricua is a person born on the Island of Puerto Rico and lives from it, by it and for it.
Sony Antron
ReplyDelete1) Boricua (in my opinion cuz i have no clue)- a person who is born and raised in PR who is proud of who is he/she and where he/she comes from
Puerto Rican- A person who is born in PR or who has family who came from PR, they were not necessarily raised there or need 2 have ever been there
Carlos f. Bautista
ReplyDeletewell, i think puerto rican is more formal then when you say: hey this nigga is a nature "Boricua". i dont know i think is an street word, but when you mean a Puerto Rican is Formal in meetings or bla bla bla.
Jennifer Bruno
ReplyDelete1. Well I think the differenc between a Boricua and a Puerto Rican is that a Boricua is proud of being born in Puerto Rico and is very patriotic. Puerto Rican is someone that is born there but isn't that proud of being Puerto Rican
Justin Cruz
ReplyDelete1.I belive that the answer for this question depends on who you ask. If you ask me (a born puertorican of foregin perent) I would answere that a boriciua is a is a patriotic puertorican.
Anigiselle Regis
ReplyDelete1.I think that Puerto Rican could be anyone who was born from a puerto rican, or someone who has lived here for a while and changed their nationality.Boricua would be someone who has been born from a puerto rican or has been raised in puerto rico. I don't really know.
Sony Antron
ReplyDelete2)well....it depends on the person. I consider myself Puerto Rican..i was born in PR, but not raised and although i have lived here for a while i havent really immersed myself in the culture and havent really accepted all the coustoms
3)I have no clue...
Noel Collado
ReplyDelete1. This is a hard question because everyone that's either Puerto Rico or in anywhere else that has Puerto Rican descent calls themselves Boricuas. So I guess I will have to answer it by those people who were living in the island back when it was called Borinken, Boricuas are those people. But of course there will be people who would like to keep the pride of the island's previous name...
Jennifer Bruno
ReplyDelete2. I think they identify themselves as Puerto Rican because thats where they where born.
Yoesky Joaquin
ReplyDelete1. I think the difference between a boricua and a Puerto rican is that Puerto ricans are people who were born and raced in the island of Puerto Rico unlike boricuas who also have the same culture and whose parents were born in Puerto Rico but were not born in Puerto Rico.
Lionel Aneudy Escobales Filippetti
ReplyDelete2) Puerto Ricans identify themselves as Boricuas. Boricua is a word that is used as a person who loves their Island and the history of it. No matter how the history has gone, Boricuas live with proud and glory from the Island.
3)Boricua is used as a word of identity. It helps give a small profile of a person or a type of person from Puerto Rico. Puerto Ricans are people that live in the island and wrok for themselvez and their family. Boricuas are better known as proud people that work and live for the people. Many times they are identified as freedom fighters.
Anigiselle Regis
ReplyDelete2. If they are proud of being puerto ricans, they will definetely identify themselves as boricuas. If they are not, then they would probably say Puerto Rican in a disapointed way.
Carlos F. Bautista
ReplyDelete2) The time that i've been here in puerto rico i've heard a lot of people calling themselves as a Boricua, so i'm from another country and we use to call them Boricuas. So my opinion is that they identify themselves as a Boricuas.
Justin Cruz
ReplyDelete2. In the places I haved travel, i'ved seen cases similiar to this. Like for example, In some places they call Americans "Yankees" or in guatemala they call themself "chapines".So I think that a puertorican considers thememself depending in the context of where they are being ask they are.
Jennifer Bruno
ReplyDelete3. When a person is called Boricua is because of their carecter. A person can be born in Puerto Rico but not necessary be a Boricua it all depends in how patriotic they are etc.
Noel Collado
ReplyDelete2. I think Puerto Ricans identify themselves as Puerto Ricans regularly but when they really want to take it to heart they'll refer themselves as Boricuas. The same thing I think happens with Dominicans when we call ourselves Quisqueyanos.
3. Puerto Rico was once called Borinken, hence the name Boricuas.
Is not an easy task describe a puertorican.some peolpe think that we have a lot of pride we are to patriotic we cant live without americans . but i think that we are great people long time ago my grandmother told me so many good stories about good people helping others great friendship a lot of loyalty but in this moment thinks change and we dont have a really good reputation
ReplyDeleteCarlos F. Bautista
ReplyDelete3) well i have no Idea!
Anigiselle Regis
ReplyDelete3. We call our selves boricuas because the Tainos were asked in Spanish how was the island called and they said boriquen, that does not mean they named it like that because they didn't really understand spanish, and the Spaniards just named the island Boriquen, and thats why i think people came to say we are boricuas
Justin Cruz.
ReplyDelete3. They are cald this when they are being patrotic.
Yoesky Joaquin
ReplyDelete2. Well... when people identify themselves as boricuas is because they love and carry on the culture from the Island, it's a part of their life style.
Yoesky Joaquin
ReplyDelete2. when someone calls themselves boricua is because they love and carry on the culture from the Island, it's part of their lives.
Yoesky Joaquin
ReplyDelete3. boricuas are treated slightly diffent from people from the Island simply because they weren't born in PR and may have a different vocabulary..
Ludienne Henriette
ReplyDelete1. To me Boricuas are those Puertoricans whose family and themselves included were born here and lived on this island for many generations (at least more than 2 or 3 generations ago) and Puertorican is anyone born on this island and they either live here or live abroad.
2. I hear most of them call themselves Boricua, and I think they rather use that name since it's a more original (comes from the tainos)because they are very proud of their roots and nationality. Puertorican sounds more like american.
3. The name Boricua either comes from 'boricuá' (which means 'eat crabs' or 'come cangrejos' in spanish, in the tainos native language Arawak)
Or Boriquen, which is the name the Tainos gave the island.