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For an American perspective, I've thought about this a lot while talking to Chinese friends, and I wonder if the closest thing to this in American culture (whil
by sdrothrock 9y ago
For an American perspective, I've thought about this a lot while talking to Chinese friends, and I wonder if the closest thing to this in American culture (while not being at all equivalent, just analogous) would be claiming that Puerto Rico is the 51st state.
Factually, it is not.
Emotionally, some people may want it to be and may very well have valid arguments for it.
People across the US and Puerto Rico would have strong opinions on either side of the argument.
- charlieflowers 9y agoAnecdotally, I'm an American and that statement would get barely a chuckle out of me. I really wouldn't care and most people I know wouldn't either. So I don't know if it's the best analogy.
- anonforthis323 9y agoI think a more appropriate analogy would depend on how the person leans. It would be like telling a conservative that they stole America from the Natives and should give reparations. Or it would be like telling a liberal that it was the colonists that made America what it is today, so they don't owe the Natives anything.