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Are you thinking of the Philipines or Puerto Rico? Hawaii was never colonized by the Spanish. That said, I don't mind to refute the larger point. In fact, I wo
by Ericson2314 6y ago
Are you thinking of the Philipines or Puerto Rico? Hawaii was never colonized by the Spanish.
That said, I don't mind to refute the larger point. In fact, I would make Puerto Rico independent in conjunction with recognizing Taiwan.
- platinumrad 6y agoPuerto Rico should be granted statehood, not independence, unless you want it to be an impoverished client of the United States.
- jakeva 6y agoUnlike how it is now?
- platinumrad 6y agoIt might have been clearer for "be" to be "remain".
- Ericson2314 6y agoI responded to your other post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24558926 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24558926. It's more important to valorize independence regardless of what's actually best for Puerto Rico. Any paternalism no matter how honestly felt will defeat the purpose of this gesture. My proposal is "bleeding heart realpolitik", and bound to thus illicit confusion in the US.
- jjcon 6y agoOnly 5% of Puerto Ricans want independence, in recent years there has been a push towards statehood though (and now a majority support statehood over their current status of free association) https://web.archive.org/web/20121109002017/http://div2.ceepur.org/REYDI_NocheDelEvento/index.html#es/default/CONDICION_POLITICA_TERRITORIAL_ACTUAL_ISLA.xml https://web.archive.org/web/20121109002017/http://div2.ceepu...