Puerto Ricans are Tri-Racial Hispanics

This is a fact about Puerto Ricans.

[RayPointerChannel]

Puerto Ricans are not the only Tri-racial people in The United States. There are MANY and have been since the beginning of this nation due to the practical reality of when the male explorers came to this hemisphere. Creoles are another of similar make up. The same applies to certain members of the Black Race who have been labeled "Mulatto." The confusion has been caused by the rigidity of society who thought it had the right to categorize people and in the process overlooked anyone who might have been racially mixed. The truth is that it is more than just a "black and white" issue, there a tremendous "gray range' there as well.

[dwaynearroyo]

I'm Puerto Rican and triracial 50% European 37% Sub Saharan African 10% indigenous and 3% North African. Most Puerto Ricans are triracial you are correct.

[gcosme]

heck yeah bro! EVERYONE who is Puerto Rican is taught from a young age (at home and in school) that we are a mix of three races. 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷 my family in particular, after DNA tests, came back roughly 30-35% each 🤙🤙

[raysand]

The biggest component in the average Puerto Rican's DNA is Iberian and while there are many triracials [for the record, the Taino DNA is low], there are, also, many caucasians particularly Puerto Ricans from the countryside. You should, also, be aware that the migration of Puerto Ricans who came to the USA from the 1920-1950's was not necessarily representative of the middle class that stayed behind. Those were far more Iberian.

[lunnabellarosales]

Google says "A mixture of the average Puerto Rican (regardless of racial self-identity) is about 64% European, 21% African (including both Sub-Saharan African and North African admixture found in Spaniards), and 15% Native Taino"

[reflexboxerndlt]

Most Hispanics are multi racial. Slave trade hit most parts of Latin American. But yes Puerto has more African compared to Mexico for example.

[Victormendo]

Puerto Rican is not a race. Some Puerto Ricans are European some Puerto Ricans are African and some Puerto Ricans are Native American.

[Penxmbra]

Hispanic isn’t a race, so I think some people may be confusing the fact that you can be Hispanic & also be white or black or Native American or all 3. However, even Puerto Ricans who look full white or black are not necessarily unmixed. I’ve seen lots of Puerto Rican DNA results from people who look very European with light eyes and light hair and yet have 20% Native American DNA plus a small percentage of African DNA on top of that. As a Puerto Rican myself, my ancestry is a pretty typical ancestry for the AVERAGE Puerto Rican (not ALL) I’m mostly Iberian with sizable chunks of Taíno (Native American) and African ancestry. I think because of different racial tensions and discrimination in the world people feel the need to identify with a certain race that makes THEM feel more comfortable. We all have the right to self identification. However, that doesn’t necessarily match the DNA evidence. Majority of Puerto Rican’s ARE tri racial with varying percentages of the aforementioned races for the MOST part.

[MagicSnapO]

To be honest I always check off white on the census because By definition race is based on appearance. Also white includes North Africans and Arabs because what they mean to say by white is caucasian which is much broader

[a.i.]

I'm Mexican and I'm tri-racial.

[CF]

Bro, these people doing too much ...the vast majority of us Puerto Ricans are triracial black, red and white..I identify as a Latino but acknowledge all my ancestors....we more like them creoles from New Orleans

[Jonmad]

It's not that simple in that a tri-racial person whose ancestry is 85% African will be perceived and treated differently than a tri-racial person whose ancestry is 85% European. 'White" Puerto Ricans are often technically tri-racial on DNA tests, but their ancestry is overwhelmingly European, and as a result benefit from white privilege.

[johnq]

Hispanics are only from Spain and Portugal. We Puerto Ricans are Caribbeans.

[garlicnaut]

I have like 2% arab, 5% German, and like 31 of each for Taino and African, and like 16 percent Spanish... And like 15 percent Portuguese. I’m the UN

[MagicSnapO]

African is a very broad term. Spaniards are also partly African from North Africa. This carried over to Puerto Rico as well so its not just West African DNA that we have. A huge migration from canary Islands (north africa) also occurred which gave us a higher concentration if North African DNA.

[vatolocosforever]

Dominicans get offended when you say they're black

[bennomedina-quinsella]

I have written to you before so let me do a "reset"...again.
I'll make this really simple.

1. "Puerto Rico" is NOT a race, nor is it a homogeneous "culture" nor is it a "nationality"
It is a 500 year old socio-cultural matrix of 4 million (+/-) people with another 4 million other "Puerto-Rican" self-identified others who live OFF-THE-Island, mostly in the continental US, but also in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and even in Asia. I don't know of any of us living in Antarctica or the North Pole.

2. Prior to 1493, the Island was populated sparsely by Indigenous people who were descended from indigenous people from the northern part of what today is known as "South America". These indigenous people followed the chain of Islands northward that you can see on a map that trail from what is today Venezuela to what is today "the Caribbean Island chain". None of this is mystery or magic, but historically and anthropologically researched and documented fact.

3. In 1493 when the European Spanish explorers arrived in Puerto Rico, they brought with them diseases to which the indigenous Islanders had NO immunity...mumps, measles, chicken pox, influenzas, even STDS and the common cold often killed them also. So childish notions of a "Great Taino Nation" in Puerto Rico are just absurd and are more the product of ignorant racist delusions of con-artists in the States who want to cash-in on the "Indian" tax-free benefit status afforded by the US Federal Government. And of course there are the political charlatans who want to paint Puerto Rico as a comparable Aztec nation which has NEVER been the case! Historical accounts of entire native villages dying within a week EXIST and so it is no surprise that NO ONE in Puerto Rico has a majority of indigenous DNA in their genetic profile. Some people in Puerto Rico may have somewhere in the 15%-30% but that is rare and most of us have SINGLE digit (if any) indigenous DNA profile. This is very different from Mexico, ALL of Central America and Amazonian and Andean South American regions that are STILL heavily indigenous in their demographics. So the "indigenous" presence in Puerto Rico exists to a small degree on a genetic level and NOT on a level...no matter how many FAKE Tainos you see in the NYC Puerto Rican Day Parade wearing Apache War Paint, screaming Comanche War Cries, doing Hopi Rain Dances or jumping through hoops of fire screaming..."Mira mami, soy Taino Pa' que lo sepa"....(eye-roll). In fact, the indigenous population was almost completely extinguished by the EARLY 1500s, leaving very few to become part of the DNA profile of ANY person in Puerto Rico.

4. Black Sub-Saharan Slaves (from West Africa...NOT from Egypt or Zulu-land) were brought to Puerto Rico when the Spanish colonists attempted to colonize the Island, which until the 1800s was EXCLUSIVELY in COASTAL areas only! Why? Because the coastal areas offered flatter, more arable topography which lent itself to agricultural cultivation UNLIKE the central region of the Island which was mountainous and inaccessible to colonists because of the thick jungle canopy and lack of roads or river travel. So the interior of the Island was NOT a location where any slaves were brought. That is why the center of the Island is predominantly of European descent. Blacks were located in the coastal areas ONLY where the plantations existed.! Just like slaves in the US were NOT brought to the Rocky Mountains because there was no need for them in that topography.


6. In the 1800s as ALL of Europe (Spain, France, England, Holland, Portugal) saw its colonies declaring independence in the Americas, Spain in an attempt to hold on to Puerto Rico and Cuba flooded both Islands with settlers, primarily from Iberian Spain but also from the Canary Islands and Corsica, and from throughout Europe, primarily France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, England and even French former colonists from the Louisiana Territory when it was purchase by the "USA" in 1803. French sugar planters also came to Puerto Rico from Haiti when the Slave Rebellions took over Haiti and the French fled for their lives and they came to Puerto Rico to re-establish the lucrative sugar plantations that had made Haiti the richest Caribbean colony until that point.

7. 1898...the U.S. after it "defeated" the Spanish Army in Cuba, claimed Puerto Rico as a "territory", then as "protectorate" then as a "commonwealth" then as a "unaffiliated state of sorts"...all are PC terms for "colony". Since this time, American "settlement" has been non-stop. Many modern-day Puerto Ricans are descendants of "Euro-Americans" who came to the Island to develop their entrepreneurial ventures...in agriculture, industry, pharmaceuticals and even textiles. No Apaches or Eskimos came from the US to settle in Puerto Rico.

So when someone today makes gross and erroneous statements like:

"All Puerto Ricans in the blank)
"All Puerto Ricans are descended from....(fill in the blank)
"All Puerto Ricans in the blank)
"All Puerto Ricans in the blank)
"All Puerto Ricans look in the blank)...

...we need to stop for a minute and reflect on the Island's FIVE HUNDRED YEAR history of colonization (PRIMARILY from Europe), immigration (PRIMARILY from Europe) and cultural, social and political amalgamation with the United States of America and NOT with some fallacious, fictitious and fraudulent identity con-job as "minorities" or "people of color" or "oppressed" people from Wakanda.

NO ONE in Puerto Rico is a "minority" any more than any one in China is a minority.
This PC BS nonsense is the creation of colonized, uninformed minds in the US where the race war goes on everyday.

Puerto Rico is the home of people of different races, different ethnic backgrounds and of mixed race people of very different and varying familial backgrounds. Some because of their particular background are White (the majority, 78%) others identify as "Black" because of phenotype (9%), others identify a "mixed" (12%) and some even as "Asian" (Chinese contract workers that were brought to the Island in the 1800s to work on the railroads)...and all because of their background but ALL OF US identify as "Puerto Rican" and YES we do see racial differences, we just don't make it a 24/7 obsession.

[rubenmejias]

I'm Puerto Rican and Cuban mixed. So definitely. Tri racial. Maybe more. Quadracial or Quintiracial. Only God knows the dilutions. But many are obvious. But happy with all. .lol

[scee]

According to AncestryDNA kit…37% west African, 33% European (Spaniard) 20% Native American…then a bunch of countries surrounding these 3 that can be just similar DNA quantities

[ToKyoBraZilBoriCua]

According to genetic studies only 60% of the island has Native American dna making them tri racial. The other 40% would have European and African in varying percentages. The European and African dna varies wildly while the native is usually stagnant. The highest native I’ve seen is 35% but most are in the teens or twenties.