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Puerto Rico: Tourist's-Eye View
Kirchwey, Freda | March 9, 1940 issue

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The article discusses Puerto Rico as a tourist destination. Except in Puerto Rico, strange irony, in Puerto Rico, which is part of the United States, the people, who are citizens of the United States, always call themselves "Puerto Ricans" and always call people from the United States "Americans." It is as if, in their anxious national pride and their determination to make the difference felt, they were deliberately forfeiting their claim to the larger title. Since they cannot share it as equals or independents, they will not share it at all. The people from the mainland can be Americans, Puerto Ricans will be Puerto Ricans.

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TOURISM; TRAVELERS; NATIONALISM; AMERICANS; PUERTO Ricans; PUERTO Rico
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