Why Puerto Ricans are so cool..........
We are a mix of the best of every race.
Our legal drinking age is 18
We can't care less what other people think of us.
We are not only bilingual but we can speak 'Spanglish'
Our women are the most beautiful in the world, (5 Miss Universe)
We are LATIN, and yet AMERICANS
Mofongo (that's all I have to say)
In PR, any road will take you to a beach..... or a pub.
We are the only 'territory' of another country with our own Olympic
teams.
We do everything under the sun... because we CAN!
Because even though we are a territory we are still a whole NATION.
We don't need to take vacations to be in a tropical paradise.
In PR everything is really close.
I can call you sir ('USTED'), and insult you in the same sentence.
Our Spanish is completely different than any other Spanish speaking
country.
We make some of the best coffee of the world.
WE CAN DANCE!!!!!!!!! True
They come from around the world to hire our Engineers and Scientists.
We are the country with the most roads by square mile (and there are
still
traffic jams. {Tapones}).
We have the longest swimming pool in the world (Cerromar)
La 'Calle del Cristo' (San Juan P.R.) was the first road of 'The
New
World
to be paved. Amazing.
86% of the rum drunk in the U.S. is from Puerto Rico.
We have more female Engineers than any other country.
We know how to party, without absurd curfew laws.
We are the major RUM manufacturer of the world.
We invented the Mayo Ketchup!
Puerto Rico has one of the world's highest productivity ratios.
Salsa music was the fastest growing genre in the last 20 years.
Four Puerto Ricans received the Congress Medal of Honor Euripides
Rubio,
Carlos Lozada,
Héctor Santiago y Fernando Luis Ledesma García.
Only 4 baseball players have 2 Home Runs in the same Inning; 3 of
them are
Puerto Ricans
(Roberto Clemente, Roberto Alomar and Carlos Baerga who did it right
and
left handed)
Tito Trinidad never went to the Olympics but defeated 4 gold medal
champions.
A Puerto Rican, Nellie Toledo, designed the 1984 Camaro Berlinetta.
We were the 5th country in THE WORLD to have a radio station.
(before Washington D.C.) Amazing!!!.
Junior Cordero (Puerto Rican) won the Kentucky Derby 3 times.
There is only 7 fluorescent lagoons in the world; we have 4 of them.
Amazing.
Giovanni Hidalgo is considered the best percussionist in THE WORLD.
Jose Feliciano is in the top 3 guitar players in THE WORLD (don't
forget he
is blind).
The Discovery 500; Solar car designed by the Mayaguez College won 41
awards
in Sunrayace, Iowa
in 1993.
We established the first lottery system in the New World. Wow
We are the only country with a Boxing Champion in each category
And let's not forget that a Puerto Rican woman was the first one to
win all
4 major entertainment awards:
the Tony, the Grammy, the Oscar and the Emmy. Rita Moreno!!!!!
NOT TO BAD FOR A 100 X 35 MILES ISLAND....
Este es un mensaje que recibi por correo electronico del Dr. Ricardo Vela y Dr. Jose Villanueva y otros.
