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Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 10:13 pm

The United States is a self-proclaimed "democracy" but yet it continues to possess colonies: Guam, American Samoa, United States Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Northern Mariana Islands. The United States needs to give these territories independence because it makes the United States a hypocrite!!!

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 11:13 pm

To be honest here the land is ours we won it in the spanish american war. heck if you know your history america got its land by war or we bougth it. It starts out as a territorie and later became a state.

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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 6:02 am

I lived down in Puerto Rico for a while. I think it should be granted if that is what the people want, while I was there, there was some discourse among the people.

Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 2:20 pm

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To be honest here the land is ours we won it in the spanish american war. heck if you know your history america got its land by war or we bougth it. It starts out as a territorie and later became a state.

Puerto Rico is my country and it doesn't belong to the United States. Puerto Rico has been a colony for 512 years. The first 400 years under Spain, and 112 years under US colonial rule. We are a different culture than the United States. We don't even speak English as our mother tongue and no one really wants to.

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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 4:20 pm

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To be honest here the land is ours we won it in the spanish american war. heck if you know your history america got its land by war or we bougth it. It starts out as a territorie and later became a state.

Puerto Rico is my country and it doesn't belong to the United States. Puerto Rico has been a colony for 512 years. The first 400 years under Spain, and 112 years under US colonial rule. We are a different culture than the United States. We don't even speak English as our mother tongue and no one really wants to.

well we got it in the peace treaty of paris (189 cool and spain owed the colony and they gave it to us so it dose belong to us and if you should blame anyone blame spain and sooner or later they well become states.
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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 1:13 am

Holy Rocker101

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To be honest here the land is ours we won it in the spanish american war. heck if you know your history america got its land by war or we bougth it. It starts out as a territorie and later became a state.

Puerto Rico is my country and it doesn't belong to the United States. Puerto Rico has been a colony for 512 years. The first 400 years under Spain, and 112 years under US colonial rule. We are a different culture than the United States. We don't even speak English as our mother tongue and no one really wants to.

Neither do a lot of people in the United States. Speak English as their "mother tongue," I mean.

I can understand how you'd want Puerto Rico to become independent. That's something to bring up in front of Congress, you know, other than Puerto Rican statehood. Personally, I think it's up to the Puerto Rican people to decide, and not up to people from the States.

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Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 6:43 am

I think we should just ask the people of those territories what they want. Some of them, if not all, probably want to be part of the United States. While we have seen better times, we're still a great country. I'm sure the standard of living in these places has gone up since they became U.S territory.

Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2010 2:31 pm

I doubt that Puerto Rico will ever be a State of the US. We are too different from the US. Our culture is Latin and the United States is an Anglo-based culture. If statehood comes to Puerto Rico then you better be prepared to have Spanish as an official language of the country along with English. Trust me if you go to Puerto Rico, you feel like you are in another country. I love my island and I don't want it to be part of the US.

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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2010 7:55 pm

I honestly think it should be up to the Puerto Ricans.

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