QatzelOk wrote:In Quebec, it was the Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM) that has been our social intervention university since it was created for that purpose in the late 60s during the Quiet Revolution. It's still going strong on a shoestring budget, with 40,000 students.
But the 'education' I want to recall again is the 'message' of Pierluisi-the-lobbyist in the film you provided. His 'education' is one of hope, if we just follow his lead in becoming a state and 'getting all that free money.'
I am interested in studying this kind of lobbyist, but not meeting with him (for fear of walking away with an overpriced used car - I don't even have my license). It's obvious he can smell a treat for himself if he sells the product he has been programmed to sell. But his idea that "investors" are just waiting for the correct behaviors (statehood) to drop money and jobs on the same Puerto Ricans who live there now... is only credible if you DON'T have a critical mind, like the one you can develop in certain university or college environments.
His notion of "I found a loophole full of cash for everyone" is like that junkmail that tells you that you have won or inherited millions. Just sign here.
And "waiting for us to show correct behavior before they bless us with cash" is a cheap mockery of religion, and the idea that if you act like a saint, God will shower you with an eternity in heaven. It's credible because the church told us that for hundreds of years, and we pretended it was true for the sake of the collective. But please, don't use that as a sketch of reality to trick people into some kind of illogical game that rewards only the used car salesman.
The whole purpose of that PNP (Partido Nuevo Progresista) was to create a conservative party that destroyed the idea of a Puerto Rican homeland Q. Before 1968? It did not exist Q. It was Luis Munoz Rivera (father) and Luis Munoz Marin (son), from the PPD party (Partido Popular Democratico) both were autonomy advocates,
and were ex pro-independence and they compromised for the ability to supposedly lift people out of poverty by giving all the farmland to the banks from the USA and the profits to them as well.
Anyone who believed in the bullshit lie that the USA gov't was going to be giving away free money out of the goodness of their hearts to help out the Puerto Rican people are total fools Q. No such thing as free money for capitalist industries, and banks. The USA did not become an empire considering the needs of some Caribbean mixed-race nation before its own needs for greed. Whoever believes that bullshit is stupid.
But the money pumped to prop up the PNP statehood party had a bad effect on many Puerto Ricans. Yes, we are Americans the same as any Yankee in New York or Connecticut or Dixie Southerner in Florida or Georgia. Lol. We just got to LEAVE our homeland to have political rights.
The only one who doesn't see that as fishy? Is ignorant in the extreme. You got a lot of Americans convinced that Puerto Ricans all agree that the USA is for them and they want INSIDE equality to the statehood club.
They don't study Palau. Palau wanted to leave the unincorporated territories scene. The path they took was independence because statehood was not the plan from the USA. They try to sell that shit to the unincorporated territories to keep the lie going. Eventually it is exposed the Palau folk say "No thanks. Don't want to be part of the USA citizen thing. Just give me habitual resident. And let us run our own thing." The Americcans are so damn brainwashed they think that the entire world wants to be an American Q.
Most people are looking for jobs and a way of making a living. That is the purpose of immigration for the USA not because the American scene is the only culture people in the world value.
I have found Americans incredibly disrespectful Q. Paper towel toss aside? They think that there is an absence of meaning in being from another culture. All human cultures find meaning in their own reality.
The evidence is not about statehood Q. If they make PR a state? They will have to deal with the US Virgin Islands, Solomon islands, American Samoa, Guam. The Samoans have a terrible deal. But they remain nationals and not USA citizens because they refuse to give up the land. They retain Native land rights. So the American gov't refuses to give them rights til they let them have the land. It is the base of all of the abuse Q. They want the lands but none of the people who were there before they invaded want to abandon it. It is the Indian war manifest destiny problem.