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WHY THE PUERTORICANS ARE SO' COOL!!!!
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We are a mix of the best of every race.
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Our legal drinking age is 18.
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We can't care less what other people think of us.
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We are not only bilingual but we can speak "Spanglish"
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Our women are the most beautiful in the world, (5 Miss Universe)
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We are LATIN, and yet AMERICANS
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Plus we are caribeños and antillanos
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In PR, any road will take you to a beach..... or a pub.
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We are the only "territory" of another country with our own
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Olympic teams.
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We do everything under the sun... because we CAN!
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Because even though we are a territory we are still a whole
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NATION.
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We
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don't need to take vacations to be in a tropical paradise.
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In PR everything is really close.
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I can call you sir ("USTED"), and insult you in the same
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sentence.
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Our Spanish is completely different than any other Spanish
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speaking country.
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We all have cool nicknames.
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We have the best athletes in the world.
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We make some of the best coffee of the world (official coffee of the vatican).
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WE CAN DANCE!!!!!!!!!
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They come from around the world to hire our engineers and
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scientists.
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We are the country with the most roads by square mile (and there is
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still traffic).
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We have the longest swimming pool in the world (Cerromar)
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La "Calle del Cristo" (San Juan P.R.) was the first road of "The
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New World " to be paved.
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We are the major RUM manufacturer of the world.
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We have more female engineers than any other country. (and you
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still call us machistas?)
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We know how to party, without absurd curfew laws.
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The bats for the Movie Batman Forever were filmed in Las Cuevas
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de Camuy, P.R.
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We invented the MayoKetchup!
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We kicked the DREAM TEAM's ass
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Puerto Rico has one of the world's highest productivity ratios.
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Salsa music was the fastest growing genre in the last 20 years.
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Four Puerto Ricans received the Congress Medal of Honor
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Eurípides Rubio, Carlos Lozada, Héctor Santiago y Fernando Luis Ledesma
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García.
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Only 4 baseball players have 2 Home Runs in the same Inning; 3
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of them are Puerto Ricans (Roberto Clemente, Roberto Alomar and Carlos
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Baerga)
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Tito Trinidad never went to the Olympics but defeated 4 gold
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medal champions.
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A Puerto Rican, Nellie Toledo, designed the 1984 Camaro
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Berlinetta.
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We were the 5th country in THE WORLD to have a radio station.
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(before Washington D.C.)
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Junior Cordero (Puerto Rican) won the Kentucky Derby 3 times.
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There is only 7 fluorescent lagoons in the world; we have 4 of
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them.
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Giovanni Hidalgo is considered the best percussionist in
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THE WORLD.
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Jose Feliciano is in the top 3 guitar players in THE WORLD
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(don't forget he is blind).
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The Discovery 500; Solar car designed by the Mayaguez College
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won 41 awards en Sunrayace , Iowa in 1993.
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We established the first lottery system in the New World.
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NOT TO BAD FOR A 100 X 35 MILES ISLAND... |