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Why Should Puerto Rico Become the 51St State?

Why Should Puerto Rico Become the 51St State?

Román, Guillermo González

Paperback

General Psychology

ISBN10: 1664152032
ISBN13: 9781664152038
Publisher: Xlibris Us
Published: Jan 14 2021
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.18 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
With this book, Why Should Puerto Rico Become the 51st State?, Dr. González attempts to answer two basic questions. 1. Why has Puerto Rico been a colony for the past 527 years? 2. How could Puerto Rico stop being a colony? Colonialism refers to populations whose government's sovereignty resides in another country without fair and equal representation in that government. Puerto Rico is a territory that belongs to the USA since 1898 with the signature of the Treaty of Peace between Spain and the USA after the Spanish- American War. The original book published in 2007, The Governor's Suits, was a response to a book written by an ex-president of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico: The Trials of the Oldest Colony of the World by José Trías Monje. After years of asserting that Puerto Rico was a self-governing country, he declared that PR is a colony. He did not understand why Puerto Ricans have accepted colonialism. In his book, Dr. González explained that the experiences of colonialism have been endured because the experiences as a colony for all these years have branded the Puerto Ricans and shaped their personalities to accept and endure colonialism with stoicism. With a near future discussion coming to Congress about the status of the relations between Puerto Rico and the USA, Dr. González feels responsibility to create awareness that PR is a colony, and since 2012, in a popular vote, 54% of Puerto Ricans voted to discontinue the mutually consented colonialism up to then.

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