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5 Rev. Estudios Criticos D. iii (2010)
Behind the Imaginary Nation: Multiplicity, Diversity and Self-Determination for Puerto Rico

handle is hein.journals/clave5 and id is 5 raw text is: Behind the imaginary nation: multiplicity, diversity and self-determination for Puerto Rico1 Por: Lcda. Yanira Reyes Gil2 Good morning! 1 am Yanira Reyes and J'm a puertorriqueña. And if you have met any Puerto Ricans, you know we are obsessed with Puerto Rico. Not with the beautiful beaches and gentle people, but with the colonial situation, some of us would say, or the political status, others would say, or with our identity, 1 think all of us would say. This general obsession comes perhaps as a way of compensation for some common complex of inferiority, some kind of self-esteem problem caused by our lack of sovereignty and history of colonial domination or dependence (other would call it). But since 1 am not a psychologist, and do not think those kind of generalizations will take us anywhere, 1 am not going to even try to get to the roots or ultimate causes of this obsession. The identity issue has transformed in Puerto Rico on reliance upon the concept of nation as an identity linkage. National identity then becomes that thing that unites us, which define us, a tool and a goal. That thing nobody can define but everybody knows, as would be love, sincerity or obscenity (like the Supreme Court of the US would have us believe). A feeling that gets materialized in our national flag, and appears after a couple of Medallas (our national beer), a Ponencia dictada en Convención de Lat Crit en Río de Janeiro. Doctorado en Sociología de la Universidad de Purdue. Profesora de los cursos de Derecho Constitucional, Introducción al Derecho, Investigación, andlisis y redacción y Raza y Género en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Interamericana, Puerto Rico.

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