Thank you again! Every time you put out a video I end up going down another rabbit hole and learning something new. I have spent most of my life not knowing a lot of these things.👍🏽
The story of the Puerto Rican Macheteros needs to be taught in high school history classes. Puerto Rican struggles for independence and anti-colonialism is forgotten about far too often.
@@Michael-tm9smit's a struggle only on paper that's the fear the US and Spain liked to use on Puerto Ricans, our land has vast resources for such a small island enough resources to have the interests of both the US and the rising power...China who's already tried to purchase Puerto Rico 5 times, we have a strategic location that makes it ideal for any nation to trade with us through our ports now that combined with the resources would make Puerto Rico the richest country in the Caribbean if not the entire of Latin America, just with the ports the ones Spain used for many years and literally called it Rich Port not only because of it's gold like you're thought in School but also because of the many nations that traded there after Spain it was the US who now owns the ports and take the majority of the paycheck, now I do firmly believe that if Puerto Rico were to become independent within a 10 year transition it with the island's current politicians then yes the citizens would be poor I've noticed that our politicians have that Hispanic tendency to be very corrupt they would be the Rich ones not the citizens. So in conclusion Puerto Rico independent would not fail simply because it became independent we have the resources to sustain ourselves the people would struggle because the politicians will fill their own pockets exploiting the resources to foreign nations and giving us nothing in return.
Nah yall really want to destroy Countries and act like Puerto Rico wasn’t a place filled with natives sacrificing , cannibalizing , enslaving and taking each other’s land💀
The original and real anthem of Puerto Rico lately have been sounding around Puerto Rico quite frequently in different types of activities. I was quite surprise to hear it in a gathering of the Ladies Civil Club of Puerto Rico. Not only listening but singing it. I was very surprised.
I feel you bro. But at least the path to freedom and fairness for you is easier than ours. In Cuba we gotta fight a government with the guns while we got nothing.. you guys can at least vote these a holes ruining the island out of office and elect actual leaders who represent the people. Mucha suerte para ustedes. Cuba Y PR son Islas Hermanas. 🇨🇺❤️🇵🇷
@@jaimemarrero3982 Nosotros queremos la libertad Nuestros machetes nos la darán VÁMONOS BORINQUEÑOS VÁMONOS YA QUE NOS ESPERA ANSIOSA ANSIOSA LA LIBERTAD LA LIBERTAD(3)
As a pro-independence Puerto Rican resident, I am staunchly against tgis drive by shallow take of Puerto Rico's rich history. A person can note the negatives of colonialism while also seeing the positives. This type of revisionist demonization only srves to promote one's ahistorical self- inflated sense of moral superiority. Do better.
Exactly right. This kind of analysis and tendency to view history through a moral lens absolves you from looking at historical events objectively. It tricks you into thinking that there is always a right and wrong, that everything is black and white, and that those who are on the “right” side will always and forever be the “good” guys. History, especially that of Puerto Rico, is FAR more complicated and nuanced than that. There were both good and bad things from the Europeans and Natives if you insist on looking at it through that lens.
Keep in mind that the US & British created a black legend revolving around us hispanoamericanos as victims. When in reality they created an agenda to further disconnect & isolate from ourselves. Spanish America is heavily divided. Half to blame is from outside forces.
Bianca this is so coal. You literally interviewed a Boricuan native who disproved the extermination thesis. Yeah there were bad stuff that happened in our history but when is history has there never been bad stuff happen? That's the pride and joy we sing to the beauty of our island that even the original Boricuas agree was full of beauty and fertile soil. Because Columbus is mentioned there suddenly we gotta change it? For whom and for what purpose? Not even Albizu Campos was like this to our past. This is so ridiculous and coal.
I'm not puertorriqueño but what you speak is truth 💯! The Chicano community supports puerto rico 🇵🇷 I know what it's like to be internally colonialized.
Watching you I learn about my beautiful Puerto Rico were I was born. I was raise in New York but I went to Puerto Rico every summer stay with my grandparents and my father. My heart always belongs to the Isla de encanto. The shining Star.
GIRL!!! OMG!! This makes so much more sense! I also sang this in front of my whole school in PR 😂 I distinctly remember being confused about the whole Columbus part every time we rehearsed but I never said anything. That always bothered me that he was part of our national anthem now I know why! Thank you!
That part of PR. anthem does seem kind of lame. In the Americas, the Dominican Republics anthem sounds really powerful especially near the end. ruclips.net/video/_quXL5b2Vb4/видео.html (fast forward to 3 minutes 39 secs.)
@scienz are you kidding right now? Puerto Rico didn't just pop up from the earth to and come into existence when Columbus "graced" its shores with his presence. Puerto Rico already existed under a different name y ahi YA VIVIA GENTE.
@GandhiJa you're not looking at the obvious that's right in front of you. Everything that we know to be Puerto Rican is because of the mix the Spanish created on the island. You are not Taino, you do not speak Taino. The food you eat, your cultural mannerisms, style, everything is PUERTO RICAN And that started when Colimbus arrived.
@@scienzHey man thanks for your input. I remember when I started researching the history of Puerto Rico took a DNA test and what I found broke my heart. Hateful spiteful emotions started welding up inside me and I cried so many times. Not long was it that I started feeling confused, I questioned the validity of my own existence. I understand what you’re saying because it’s true- I’m not Taino- I have Taino ancestry, but it’s not enough. I enjoy being Puerto Rican, but how do I rectify my soul after such trauma?
My take? Calling Puerto Rico's current status colonial is a stretch since we had the ability to vote for independence several times in referendums over the decades and always failed to vote for it. Less than 5% of the vote is for independence. Since we have been given self-determination, how then can we complain about our "colonial" status? We chose it. I do understand that the Independence movement was actively suppressed, but there is nothing stopping the will of the people to choose independence today. Until that time, those who support and end to colonialism need to respect the will of the majority. It's not colonialism when it is a choice. Are you not aware that the average Puerto Rican is 65% European colonizer by admixture? Did you not know that that it is now clear to geneticists that the Taino, of which an average of 14% of Puerto Rican ancestry derives from, were themselves colonizers? (www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/science/dna-caribbean-islands.html) The Tainos completely replaced an archaic indigenous peoples that lived on the island as early as 6,000 years ago. About 1,700 years ago, the Tainos started moving into the lesser and greater Antilles. By 1,000 years ago, the last remnants of the original inhabitants of the Caribbean disppeared from Western Cuba. The Taino "genocided" another people that had claim to Puerto Rico for 4,500 years before they arrived. That makes the average Puerto Rican 79% colonizer. 65% European colonizer and 14% Taino colonizer. Colonialism is wrong. If 51% of Puerto Ricans supported independence and the US defied the will of the people and sought to maintain possession of it, I think the entire world would support a violent uprising by the Puerto Rican people. That is not the reality. I 100% believe that if a majority of Puerto Ricans voted for independence in a fair election, the US government would honor the result and grant us independence. And finally, a people that have a choice on their status is not a colony.
Thats because if you read enough history before giving an opinion you'd know what's going on. When the Spaniards arrived, the tainos welcomed them and asked them for help against thier neighboring tribes that wasn't so "nice" to them. Also Puerto Rico being part of the Spanish legacy is not a lie or is it? Would "Puerto Rico" even exist without the Spanish empire? Without the Spanish culture? Without the Spanish families?
As unfortunate as it may sound, our history, as most countries, is not without misfortunes. We learn for it to avoid the same mistakes in the future, but we shouldn't "feel sorry" for it. When I hear our "peaceful" version of the anthem I stand, I listen, and I sing with pride.
@NegraMonroe No. As I said, you learn from the mistakes made in history to avoid them again. But there's no need to change history already written, or in this case, the anthem, just because now it may offend some over 100 years later.
Its wild Columbus is even part of the lyrics more so when he is supposedly ssying "THIS IS THE LAND I SEEK" FOR WHAT COLON? FOR WHAT DID YOU SEEK THIS LAND FOR? Its so gross that they try to make us feel glad of what was done and still is being done to puerto rico and latin america
@Juan-Hernandez-WeinYo nací en Puerto Rico en los 70’s y mis padres ambos son de padres Españoles que se fueron unos antes y los otros durante la guerra civil. Mis padres se conocieron en un club cívico Español.
@Juan-Hernandez-Wein Si señor. Ya yo tengo pasaporte Español hace muchos años. Viajaba a Alcalá a ver a mis abuelos que regresaron en los 90’s, casi todas las navidades pero murieron en el 2020 y en el 2022. Mi tío ahora vive en Madrid desde que murió mi abuela. Ella era de Cádiz y mi madre piensa mudarse también. Me quisiera jubilar allá para comer bien y ver fútbol. Vivo en Nueva York ya hace 22 años. Ya mismo.
Thank you because too many Puerto Ricans from the island take pride in the one that they teach in schools not knowing what they’re supporting but want to bash Puerto Ricans from the states because they don’t know that version.
"We all know what they did when they come to the island" Yeah they brought civilization and culture and built a country from an ispand that was still living in 3000 bc
Im glad they did the neutral version and you guys are all spanish so quit trippin . I thank Christopher Columbus and Juan Ponce Deleon for what they did because if it wasnt for them we wouldnt be here today. Humans will be humans. This is what we do. SORRY FOLKS!!
Wake up, Borinqueño! The call to arms has sounded! Wake from the slumber it’s time to fight. ❤ Wow no truer words for such a time as now. Thank you! This was super interesting to me as well. I say we take our anthem back. Let’s Move away from what we unconsciously adopted. We have now to compare to what Puerto Rico once was. We want our old Borinquén back and the only way that’s going to happen is when we say BASTA YA!
Interestingly enough, the history behind the melody that is paired with Rodriguez de Tió’s lyrics goes even before those lyrics were written and it is wildly debated who it’s composer was. That melody debuted in the danza tune “Lindísima Trigueña”
As Puerto Ricans, I don't think it's a good idea for us to adopt the current view popular in American universities vilifying Columbus, the Spanish, or standing in judgement of the past. We are a mix of Spanish, Taino, and African. Yes history was hell FOR EVERYONE EVERYWHERE, but it has made us who we are and without them we wouldn't be Puerto Ricans. We are them. They are us. We're better now because of it. Had we been there we would have made the same mistakes.
the Spanish didnt treat indigenous and blacks as equals for centuries. "it was hell for everyone". you didn't know what it was like for black Ricans or the indigenous men who got wiped off the island. That's history and the world is fucked up, that doesnt make us "better". Sprains coloinization was a complete failure since they lost tons of money and lost majority of their wars post 1790. Haiti sent soldiers to territories to free them from Spain and succeeded. Without Haitis revolution most Spanish speaking countries would still be under Spain who in the 1800s were a falling country. PR would just be called Boriken and be inhabited still. It'll be a diff culture yea and some of us wouldn't be here. But human corruption and greed shouldn't be promoted because it led to our story. That's hella selfish and inhumane and proof we didn't get better we just became just like the colonizers. We had a culture and traditions before the Spanish came and nothing will change that.
@@flexboriYou’d still be living in huts, dying from minor wounds, oblivious to plumbing and electricity, and infighting over parasite filled water sources.
❤thank you so much for sharing this information; it’s great that we should learn about our past history and the struggles that many faced! I feel it helps to understand and to appreciate what our country stands for! Hold your head up Boriquien ! We are ❤rich in culture and we continue to stand up!
So, I’m Dominican. We got a similar history. It’s kinda hard to hate to hard on Columbus when we’re literally here, alive because of every turn in history that led to us being here. I know he was a horrible man who unleashed terror on innocent people. I don’t celebrate him. Like ever. But I’m glad to be alive. The more I think about it, the more of a miracle it feels like to be alive. All of our history, no matter who you look at, is full of tragedy. But the insistence on life, that’s what has brought us here. It’s tragic and beautiful. It’s brutal and it’s merciful
I agree 100%. Unless someone Is 100% indigenous then they're a product of colonization. As most orf it's are. I'm not going to celebrate the bad but I'm also not going to live a life in shame.
....they lie and say that the Indians were extinguished. That's not true. They fled to the mountains and got mixed with the africans later on. That who we are. They want us to believe that we are descendents to Europeans and I am starting to realize is not as much as they claim. We aren't half black and half white as they wanna claim.
The more I watch your videos the more educated I feel about what's happening on the island. Really annoyed how they got a European man to change the lyrics because it was seen as too "violent." As if Columbus didn't create chaos when he stepped foot on the island. Great video 🇵🇷
60% or more of Puerto Rican’s are of European, mainly Spanish origin, and by the way, Spain had no colonies. They were part of Spain, as Cuba was. They had Spanish citizenship.
@@Provo647 los nativos que sufrieron la llegada de los españoles eran ni súbditos ni ciudadanos de la 👑 española . Lo que indica es parte de la historia de fines del siglo 19, y mal informado. Por cierto, tampoco somos ciudadanos ni súbditos de la 👑 española en la actualidad.
@@laborincana4490 no sufrieron, fueron liberados por los españoles del yugo azteca y de otros pueblos que los comían literalmente, y los esclavizaban. Los españoles no eran canibales. Ud no sabe de lo que habla, todos los nativos de America eran igual de españoles que los peninsulares, como decían las leyes de Indias que se redactaron precisamente para evitar abusos, y fueron precedente de la declaración Universal de Derechos Humanos, pero en siglo XVI, y hasta la misma constitución de 1812 llegó a reconocer al hablar de españoles de ambos continentes, Todos eran súbditos del mismo rey. Solo eran enemigos los que se rebelaban, y esto se aplicaba en la península también, como la rebelión de los comuneros. España no tuvo colonias, toda America era España. Lea historia.
The ones creating chaos were the cannibals, the Aztecs, etc. Cannibal is a word that comes from Canniba island, an island that had people who raided other islands to kidnapp people to eat, as the natives told Columbus. What you have is a hate towards the europeans, and an idealization of native peoples. The Spanish conquered the Americas thanks to the native peoples, who joined them to fight their enemies, who slaved an eat them, like the Aztecs in Mexico. You have been totally brainwashed by your woke educative system. Had it not been b6 the Spanish, you “native life” would be a miserable one. They brougth civilization, science, music,agricultural advances, Greek and Roman culture, a written languaje, buildings, architecture, etc, etc. and they didn’t kill the natives, they mixed with them, you are a proof of that. If you admire native life so much, try to live like them, not like a Western European woman. But you won’t do it. Sure.
Who cares... our anthem is the best. You seem to be leaning to one side. Whatever Columbus did or didn't, it's part of our history, and it's on our blood.
So….it IS our original anthem, and we should be PROUD of our revolutionary spirit. Do not let us or this be forgotten. The Lola Rodriguez version is the only one I’ll accept!
When you say "you know what they did" you are referring to what our ancestors did. We can't wash our hands and pretend that we are not the descendants of the colonizers.
As Puerto Rican singer I would never sing USA national anthem but what kills me the most that I cannot sing the national anthem because of that reason as well.
Solo porque una señora escribio un himno no significa que es el "verdadero himno de Puerto Rico". Para serlo tiene que ser aceptado por la mayoria de los puertorriqueños. La mayoria prefiere la borinqueña.
Well that’s awful 😢 I also learned the anthem in school for my freshmen and sophomore year of high school, and learning what those lyrics actually translate to as an adult is somewhat disturbing
Would you prefer sleeping on dry leaves, with zero knowledge of what the internet is, hoping an opposing tribe down the coast doesn’t kill you in your sleep?
@@fabricioemmanuelli1115 Modern technological advancements in Puerto Rico do not exist without the West’s influence. You people revel in the quality of life provided, and in the very same breath, curse the very people that have given it to you.
I always sing the revolutionary version and it comes naturally as opposed to the “peaceful” version where i always need to go Back and try to learn the lyrics and the rhythm bc With all of that wording I feel like Its too much to sing With the rhythm and then threw in Columbus like whaaaaaaa iykyk yk?
Es interesante, yo escuche la canción de Lola Rodriguez de Tio y me dijeron que la version revolucionaria fue una adaptación del himno que todos conocemos. Todo tiene más sentido ahora que he aprendido esto. Gracias.
gracias x la informacion en realidad no sabia q esta version existia la original, la parte final q dice la libeertad la utilizo marc anthony pa hacer millones d dolares robando letra q lechon ese tipo, nuevamente grax x abrirme los ojos
My home land is Hawai'i if they the unimformed or misinformed visitor only knew the true history on how great America took over. Sad that even if they knew most don't GAS. They are part of the commercialisation and exploitation
Also will Puerto Rico ever have its name changed back to what the locals call it? I ask because I have seen a bit of a trend of former colonies creating movements to Change their names back to what they were called by the local peoples as opposed to what conquerors called it.
That's why the group needs more growth en la union esta la Fuerza Sempre e dicho q esta pasando lo mismo se repite la historia y casi nadie quiere despertar por El miedo a lo q pueda cambiar eso es hasta q nos quiten a mi Isla bella despues se arrepienten de no aver echo nada y dejar que no quiten Todo lo que somos empesando por las Costas como colon. Tenemos que parar El abuso y la tirania en nuestro pais y retomar El control que una vez tuvimos.
La Borinqueña is a colonizers version of our national anthem,just read the lirics at the end were it says cuando a sus playas llegó Colon, Colon the Hitler of our Taino Nation.
LMFAO I would approve of a interaction that topples the US government Puerto Rico and if they put a law where only Puerto Ricans can buy that land before it ends up like Hawaii
¡despierta borinqueño que han dado la señal! ¡despierta de ese sueño que es hora de luchar! i will always sing these correct lyrics 🫶🏼🫶🏽🫶🏾🫶🏿🩷🇵🇷¡VIVA PUERTO RICO LIBRE!🇵🇷
This is exactly correct. The current PR anthem is the colonial white-washed variant that was imposed on Puerto Ricans because the original anthem was about national freedom. Plain and simple.
You’re welcome to stop utilizing Western technology and inventions anytime. Feel free to send your reply using a smoke signal, or whatever your primitive ancestors had.
Genuine question, not trying to play gotcha: If the message behind the anthem is that important, then why can’t it just be changed back to its revolutionary version? Does the average Boricua care enough about this, or is it just a trendy idea because of the newfound interest in anti-colonialism?
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@@alancantu2557 Good questions. Unfortunately, part of the deal of being a colonial territory is to suppress any feelings or hopes of freedom. So the insular government was instructed to use the colonial version. "It's not personal, it's just business", as they say. Now, does the average Boricua care enough about this? That is a tough one. It is possible that a growing number do, not because of a newfound interest in anti-colonialism, but likely because of more access to information, leading to a newfound interest in history in general. The Puerto Rican flag itself is a rebel flag, so much so that it was banned from Puerto Rico itself for some time. The colonial arrangement was never meant to last forever, and the US has said "No" to statehood for over 125 years. This is not hard to figure out.
The Indians supposedly caused a slaughter war against the Spaniards while Columbus was in Spanish. When Columbus returned from Spain, and saw what the Indians caused, Columbus became angry and pursued a slaughter war against the Indians
Free Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
I’m an American who supports a free Puerto Rico and a free Hawaii
Thank you that means a lot coming from a foreigner ❤
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Thank you again! Every time you put out a video I end up going down another rabbit hole and learning something new. I have spent most of my life not knowing a lot of these things.👍🏽
The story of the Puerto Rican Macheteros needs to be taught in high school history classes. Puerto Rican struggles for independence and anti-colonialism is forgotten about far too often.
PR is so much better off being part of the US. It’d be a struggle if they were independent. My family is from PR and the USVI.
@@Michael-tm9smit's a struggle only on paper that's the fear the US and Spain liked to use on Puerto Ricans, our land has vast resources for such a small island enough resources to have the interests of both the US and the rising power...China who's already tried to purchase Puerto Rico 5 times, we have a strategic location that makes it ideal for any nation to trade with us through our ports now that combined with the resources would make Puerto Rico the richest country in the Caribbean if not the entire of Latin America, just with the ports the ones Spain used for many years and literally called it Rich Port not only because of it's gold like you're thought in School but also because of the many nations that traded there after Spain it was the US who now owns the ports and take the majority of the paycheck, now I do firmly believe that if Puerto Rico were to become independent within a 10 year transition it with the island's current politicians then yes the citizens would be poor I've noticed that our politicians have that Hispanic tendency to be very corrupt they would be the Rich ones not the citizens. So in conclusion Puerto Rico independent would not fail simply because it became independent we have the resources to sustain ourselves the people would struggle because the politicians will fill their own pockets exploiting the resources to foreign nations and giving us nothing in return.
@@starseeker5231 that explains why countries in the Caribbeans are absolutely rich, thanks man
@@GrandeHq rich in resources only, the government officials are the only ones that are rich in the population of those countries.
Nah yall really want to destroy Countries and act like Puerto Rico wasn’t a place filled with natives sacrificing , cannibalizing , enslaving and taking each other’s land💀
This seems pretty funny coming from someone who is clearly of European descent 😂
The original and real anthem of Puerto Rico lately have been sounding around Puerto Rico quite frequently in different types of activities. I was quite surprise to hear it in a gathering of the Ladies Civil Club of Puerto Rico. Not only listening but singing it. I was very surprised.
Being Puerto Rican and hearing this get me fired up and so angry
I feel you bro. But at least the path to freedom and fairness for you is easier than ours. In Cuba we gotta fight a government with the guns while we got nothing.. you guys can at least vote these a holes ruining the island out of office and elect actual leaders who represent the people. Mucha suerte para ustedes. Cuba Y PR son Islas Hermanas. 🇨🇺❤️🇵🇷
@@AntilleanConfederation the problem is that puerto ricans keep voting for people with the same ideology as the ones that ruined your country.
Despierta,borinqueño , que han dado la señal
Despierta de ese sueño, que es hora de luchar…
A ese llamar patriotico
¿No arde tu corazon?
¡Ven! Nos sera simpatico
el ruido del cañon.
@@jaimemarrero3982
Nosotros queremos la libertad
Nuestro machete nos la dará
@@jaimemarrero3982
Nosotros queremos la libertad
Nuestros machetes nos la darán
VÁMONOS BORINQUEÑOS
VÁMONOS YA
QUE NOS ESPERA ANSIOSA
ANSIOSA LA LIBERTAD
LA LIBERTAD(3)
As a pro-independence Puerto Rican resident, I am staunchly against tgis drive by shallow take of Puerto Rico's rich history. A person can note the negatives of colonialism while also seeing the positives. This type of revisionist demonization only srves to promote one's ahistorical self- inflated sense of moral superiority. Do better.
Exactly right. This kind of analysis and tendency to view history through a moral lens absolves you from looking at historical events objectively. It tricks you into thinking that there is always a right and wrong, that everything is black and white, and that those who are on the “right” side will always and forever be the “good” guys.
History, especially that of Puerto Rico, is FAR more complicated and nuanced than that. There were both good and bad things from the Europeans and Natives if you insist on looking at it through that lens.
Keep in mind that the US & British created a black legend revolving around us hispanoamericanos as victims. When in reality they created an agenda to further disconnect & isolate from ourselves. Spanish America is heavily divided. Half to blame is from outside forces.
Bianca this is so coal. You literally interviewed a Boricuan native who disproved the extermination thesis. Yeah there were bad stuff that happened in our history but when is history has there never been bad stuff happen? That's the pride and joy we sing to the beauty of our island that even the original Boricuas agree was full of beauty and fertile soil. Because Columbus is mentioned there suddenly we gotta change it? For whom and for what purpose? Not even Albizu Campos was like this to our past. This is so ridiculous and coal.
Thank you Bianca, for this channel + all the videos. And the video you did with Benito.
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I'm not puertorriqueño but what you speak is truth 💯! The Chicano community supports puerto rico 🇵🇷 I know what it's like to be internally colonialized.
lmao, no you dont. you ARE the colonizer.
@jbinpo in response, I will submit to you the research by Rudy Acura of California State University Northridge relating to colonialized communities.
@@jbinpoyou dumb?
@@indio2520 in response, i will tell you that left wing psychobabble means nothing to normal people with common sense. You are not colonized.
Thank you for educating all of us on this subject...❤
It’s easy to tell where she aligned
Watching you I learn about my beautiful Puerto Rico were I was born. I was raise in New York but I went to Puerto Rico every summer stay with my grandparents and my father. My heart always belongs to the Isla de encanto. The shining Star.
GIRL!!! OMG!! This makes so much more sense! I also sang this in front of my whole school in PR 😂 I distinctly remember being confused about the whole Columbus part every time we rehearsed but I never said anything. That always bothered me that he was part of our national anthem now I know why! Thank you!
That part of PR. anthem does seem kind of lame. In the Americas, the Dominican Republics anthem sounds really powerful especially near the end. ruclips.net/video/_quXL5b2Vb4/видео.html (fast forward to 3 minutes 39 secs.)
If Columbus never came to Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans wouldn't exist. like OMG GIRL!!!
@scienz are you kidding right now? Puerto Rico didn't just pop up from the earth to and come into existence when Columbus "graced" its shores with his presence. Puerto Rico already existed under a different name y ahi YA VIVIA GENTE.
@GandhiJa you're not looking at the obvious that's right in front of you. Everything that we know to be Puerto Rican is because of the mix the Spanish created on the island. You are not Taino, you do not speak Taino. The food you eat, your cultural mannerisms, style, everything is PUERTO RICAN And that started when Colimbus arrived.
@@scienzHey man thanks for your input. I remember when I started researching the history of Puerto Rico took a DNA test and what I found broke my heart. Hateful spiteful emotions started welding up inside me and I cried so many times. Not long was it that I started feeling confused, I questioned the validity of my own existence. I understand what you’re saying because it’s true- I’m not Taino- I have Taino ancestry, but it’s not enough. I enjoy being Puerto Rican, but how do I rectify my soul after such trauma?
Amazing !
Thank you for insight on so many important topics that not addressed enough in Puerto Rico. God bless you.
My take? Calling Puerto Rico's current status colonial is a stretch since we had the ability to vote for independence several times in referendums over the decades and always failed to vote for it. Less than 5% of the vote is for independence. Since we have been given self-determination, how then can we complain about our "colonial" status? We chose it. I do understand that the Independence movement was actively suppressed, but there is nothing stopping the will of the people to choose independence today. Until that time, those who support and end to colonialism need to respect the will of the majority. It's not colonialism when it is a choice.
Are you not aware that the average Puerto Rican is 65% European colonizer by admixture? Did you not know that that it is now clear to geneticists that the Taino, of which an average of 14% of Puerto Rican ancestry derives from, were themselves colonizers? (www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/science/dna-caribbean-islands.html) The Tainos completely replaced an archaic indigenous peoples that lived on the island as early as 6,000 years ago. About 1,700 years ago, the Tainos started moving into the lesser and greater Antilles. By 1,000 years ago, the last remnants of the original inhabitants of the Caribbean disppeared from Western Cuba. The Taino "genocided" another people that had claim to Puerto Rico for 4,500 years before they arrived. That makes the average Puerto Rican 79% colonizer. 65% European colonizer and 14% Taino colonizer.
Colonialism is wrong. If 51% of Puerto Ricans supported independence and the US defied the will of the people and sought to maintain possession of it, I think the entire world would support a violent uprising by the Puerto Rican people. That is not the reality. I 100% believe that if a majority of Puerto Ricans voted for independence in a fair election, the US government would honor the result and grant us independence. And finally, a people that have a choice on their status is not a colony.
Is SpongeBob Puerto Rican?
He practically lives in a piña colada😅
Thats because if you read enough history before giving an opinion you'd know what's going on.
When the Spaniards arrived, the tainos welcomed them and asked them for help against thier neighboring tribes that wasn't so "nice" to them.
Also Puerto Rico being part of the Spanish legacy is not a lie or is it?
Would "Puerto Rico" even exist without the Spanish empire? Without the Spanish culture? Without the Spanish families?
There’s only one national anthem and that’s the start spangled banner 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thank you for sharing this information! Knowledge is power ♥️✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻
As unfortunate as it may sound, our history, as most countries, is not without misfortunes. We learn for it to avoid the same mistakes in the future, but we shouldn't "feel sorry" for it. When I hear our "peaceful" version of the anthem I stand, I listen, and I sing with pride.
You sing it with Pride because you want to be American and spit on the graves of our freedom fighters
Good for you? So then it's purpose to make you docile and accepting of the exploitation and colonialism worked.
@NegraMonroe No. As I said, you learn from the mistakes made in history to avoid them again. But there's no need to change history already written, or in this case, the anthem, just because now it may offend some over 100 years later.
What mistakes??? What happened to puerto rico wasn't a mistake, it was planned..
When Columbus arrived it wasn't Puerto Rico there were no Puerto Ricans. They didn't speak Spanish. Most Puerto Ricans have no actual Native ancestry
Its wild Columbus is even part of the lyrics more so when he is supposedly ssying "THIS IS THE LAND I SEEK"
FOR WHAT COLON? FOR WHAT DID YOU SEEK THIS LAND FOR? Its so gross that they try to make us feel glad of what was done and still is being done to puerto rico and latin america
The truth allows us the FIGHTBACK!!❤🔥💪
Fight back against what? The oppressive colonial overlords who have done nothing except competently govern the island?
Soy Boricua 🇵🇷 nacido y criado en Moca PR pero Amo la madre patria Española 🇪🇸.
@Juan-Hernandez-WeinYo nací en Puerto Rico en los 70’s y mis padres ambos son de padres Españoles que se fueron unos antes y los otros durante la guerra civil. Mis padres se conocieron en un club cívico Español.
@Juan-Hernandez-Wein Si señor. Ya yo tengo pasaporte Español hace muchos años. Viajaba a Alcalá a ver a mis abuelos que regresaron en los 90’s, casi todas las navidades pero murieron en el 2020 y en el 2022. Mi tío ahora vive en Madrid desde que murió mi abuela. Ella era de Cádiz y mi madre piensa mudarse también. Me quisiera jubilar allá para comer bien y ver fútbol. Vivo en Nueva York ya hace 22 años. Ya mismo.
Thank you because too many Puerto Ricans from the island take pride in the one that they teach in schools not knowing what they’re supporting but want to bash Puerto Ricans from the states because they don’t know that version.
"We all know what they did when they come to the island"
Yeah they brought civilization and culture and built a country from an ispand that was still living in 3000 bc
Im glad they did the neutral version and you guys are all spanish so quit trippin . I thank Christopher Columbus and Juan Ponce Deleon for what they did because if it wasnt for them we wouldnt be here today. Humans will be humans. This is what we do. SORRY FOLKS!!
Nothing better than the ORIGINAL VERSION!!!! Gracias Bianca! Saludos!!! Miguel 🇵🇷
Wake up, Borinqueño!
The call to arms has sounded!
Wake from the slumber it’s time to fight.
❤
Wow no truer words for such a time as now.
Thank you!
This was super interesting to me as well.
I say we take our anthem back. Let’s Move away from what we unconsciously adopted.
We have now to compare to what Puerto Rico once was. We want our old Borinquén back and the only way that’s going to happen is when we say BASTA YA!
Interestingly enough, the history behind the melody that is paired with Rodriguez de Tió’s lyrics goes even before those lyrics were written and it is wildly debated who it’s composer was. That melody debuted in the danza tune “Lindísima Trigueña”
As Puerto Ricans, I don't think it's a good idea for us to adopt the current view popular in American universities vilifying Columbus, the Spanish, or standing in judgement of the past. We are a mix of Spanish, Taino, and African. Yes history was hell FOR EVERYONE EVERYWHERE, but it has made us who we are and without them we wouldn't be Puerto Ricans. We are them. They are us. We're better now because of it. Had we been there we would have made the same mistakes.
"mistakes" everything the Spanish did was intentional.
the Spanish didnt treat indigenous and blacks as equals for centuries. "it was hell for everyone". you didn't know what it was like for black Ricans or the indigenous men who got wiped off the island. That's history and the world is fucked up, that doesnt make us "better". Sprains coloinization was a complete failure since they lost tons of money and lost majority of their wars post 1790. Haiti sent soldiers to territories to free them from Spain and succeeded. Without Haitis revolution most Spanish speaking countries would still be under Spain who in the 1800s were a falling country. PR would just be called Boriken and be inhabited still. It'll be a diff culture yea and some of us wouldn't be here. But human corruption and greed shouldn't be promoted because it led to our story. That's hella selfish and inhumane and proof we didn't get better we just became just like the colonizers. We had a culture and traditions before the Spanish came and nothing will change that.
@@flexboriYou’d still be living in huts, dying from minor wounds, oblivious to plumbing and electricity, and infighting over parasite filled water sources.
It was NOT hell for EVERYONE. It was HELL for Natives, Africans and Asians!. It was glorious for white Latinos and Anglo-Saxons.
@@sparklesp9304Such a victim
✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷 Thank you for educating in a kind and compassionate manner!
❤thank you so much for sharing this information; it’s great that we should learn about our past history and the struggles that many faced! I feel it helps to understand and to appreciate what our country stands for! Hold your head up Boriquien ! We are ❤rich in culture and we continue to stand up!
So, I’m Dominican. We got a similar history. It’s kinda hard to hate to hard on Columbus when we’re literally here, alive because of every turn in history that led to us being here. I know he was a horrible man who unleashed terror on innocent people. I don’t celebrate him. Like ever. But I’m glad to be alive. The more I think about it, the more of a miracle it feels like to be alive. All of our history, no matter who you look at, is full of tragedy. But the insistence on life, that’s what has brought us here. It’s tragic and beautiful. It’s brutal and it’s merciful
I agree 100%. Unless someone Is 100% indigenous then they're a product of colonization. As most orf it's are. I'm not going to celebrate the bad but I'm also not going to live a life in shame.
....they lie and say that the Indians were extinguished. That's not true. They fled to the mountains and got mixed with the africans later on. That who we are. They want us to believe that we are descendents to Europeans and I am starting to realize is not as much as they claim. We aren't half black and half white as they wanna claim.
As far as I Am Concerned there is Only One National Anthem and it's the Revolutionary One!!!
Amiga,no he sabido de nadie, q exponga a PuertoRico,como tu,te lo agradezco
The more I watch your videos the more educated I feel about what's happening on the island. Really annoyed how they got a European man to change the lyrics because it was seen as too "violent." As if Columbus didn't create chaos when he stepped foot on the island. Great video 🇵🇷
60% or more of Puerto Rican’s are of European, mainly Spanish origin, and by the way, Spain had no colonies. They were part of Spain, as Cuba was. They had Spanish citizenship.
@@Provo647 los nativos que sufrieron la llegada de los españoles eran ni súbditos ni ciudadanos de la 👑 española . Lo que indica es parte de la historia de fines del siglo 19, y mal informado. Por cierto, tampoco somos ciudadanos ni súbditos de la 👑 española en la actualidad.
@@laborincana4490 no sufrieron, fueron liberados por los españoles del yugo azteca y de otros pueblos que los comían literalmente, y los esclavizaban. Los españoles no eran canibales. Ud no sabe de lo que habla, todos los nativos de America eran igual de españoles que los peninsulares, como decían las leyes de Indias que se redactaron precisamente para evitar abusos, y fueron precedente de la declaración Universal de Derechos Humanos, pero en siglo XVI, y hasta la misma constitución de 1812 llegó a reconocer al hablar de españoles de ambos continentes, Todos eran súbditos del mismo rey. Solo eran enemigos los que se rebelaban, y esto se aplicaba en la península también, como la rebelión de los comuneros. España no tuvo colonias, toda America era España. Lea historia.
The ones creating chaos were the cannibals, the Aztecs, etc. Cannibal is a word that comes from Canniba island, an island that had people who raided other islands to kidnapp people to eat, as the natives told Columbus. What you have is a hate towards the europeans, and an idealization of native peoples. The Spanish conquered the Americas thanks to the native peoples, who joined them to fight their enemies, who slaved an eat them, like the Aztecs in Mexico. You have been totally brainwashed by your woke educative system. Had it not been b6 the Spanish, you “native life” would be a miserable one. They brougth civilization, science, music,agricultural advances, Greek and Roman culture, a written languaje, buildings, architecture, etc, etc. and they didn’t kill the natives, they mixed with them, you are a proof of that. If you admire native life so much, try to live like them, not like a Western European woman. But you won’t do it. Sure.
@@Descriptions568 Do you know what Iberian means? it means Spanish and Portuguese, native of the iberian peninsula
WOW ,I never knew about the original version, but I'll make sure to learn it.
Who cares... our anthem is the best. You seem to be leaning to one side. Whatever Columbus did or didn't, it's part of our history, and it's on our blood.
Thanks for sharing this with us! It reminds of the "I wish was in Dixie" song; FLIPPING racist!😮
Wow!!!! Thanks for this outstanding information you are sharing with us. Love it!!
Wow never knew thanks for this
your content is great thank you
Great work, Bianca
That first one is the right one.
No,
So….it IS our original anthem, and we should be PROUD of our revolutionary spirit. Do not let us or this be forgotten. The Lola Rodriguez version is the only one I’ll accept!
When you say "you know what they did" you are referring to what our ancestors did. We can't wash our hands and pretend that we are not the descendants of the colonizers.
Despierta Borinqueño defiende lo tuyo!
Thanks Bianca good job 👍
Thank you for all you do!
Steven Spielberg hizo famoso el himno original en West Side Story.
history is written by the winners...... Tainos probably had another song for boriquen too but they lost..
Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 #puertorico ❤❤❤
As Puerto Rican singer I would never sing USA national anthem but what kills me the most that I cannot sing the national anthem because of that reason as well.
A prophet is never recognized in it's own country!!
#Viva
#LaFrance✊
Solo porque una señora escribio un himno no significa que es el "verdadero himno de Puerto Rico". Para serlo tiene que ser aceptado por la mayoria de los puertorriqueños. La mayoria prefiere la borinqueña.
Well that’s awful 😢 I also learned the anthem in school for my freshmen and sophomore year of high school, and learning what those lyrics actually translate to as an adult is somewhat disturbing
Regardless, Colombo never landed in PR 🤷🏽♂️ I don’t get why people keep repeating this. 🤦🏽♂️
All I know is that the gringos go away thinking they own this land
Would you prefer sleeping on dry leaves, with zero knowledge of what the internet is, hoping an opposing tribe down the coast doesn’t kill you in your sleep?
@@FuhqEwe are you doing mushrooms?
@@FuhqEwe you should write a song and put that in the lyrics, since only in music you get to get away with nonsense!
@@fabricioemmanuelli1115 Modern technological advancements in Puerto Rico do not exist without the West’s influence. You people revel in the quality of life provided, and in the very same breath, curse the very people that have given it to you.
Columbus was a hero
Robber, rapist and killer* fixed it for ya.
@@pauli8888big L little man
Por que odias tus ancestros y tu historia? Tu eres una “latina” americanizada, no pretendes como si tu hablas por todos los boricuos.
I always sing the revolutionary version and it comes naturally as opposed to the “peaceful” version where i always need to go Back and try to learn the lyrics and the rhythm bc With all of that wording I feel like Its too much to sing With the rhythm and then threw in Columbus like whaaaaaaa iykyk yk?
I thought it was Gasolina by Daddy Yankee this whole time....
Es interesante, yo escuche la canción de Lola Rodriguez de Tio y me dijeron que la version revolucionaria fue una adaptación del himno que todos conocemos. Todo tiene más sentido ahora que he aprendido esto. Gracias.
Who are “They?” Many more came in the name of Columbus!
gracias x la informacion en realidad no sabia q esta version existia la original, la parte final q dice la libeertad la utilizo marc anthony pa hacer millones d dolares robando letra q lechon ese tipo, nuevamente grax x abrirme los ojos
It is what it is, who will chg it? No one. It's still sung today.
My home land is Hawai'i if they the unimformed or misinformed visitor only knew the true history on how great America took over. Sad that even if they knew most don't GAS. They are part of the commercialisation and exploitation
The version written by Lola Rodríguez de Tió was not the original either.
Also will Puerto Rico ever have its name changed back to what the locals call it? I ask because I have seen a bit of a trend of former colonies creating movements to Change their names back to what they were called by the local peoples as opposed to what conquerors called it.
Natural and peaceful usually means dumbed down and docile...
Despierta de ese sueño, que es hora de luchar...🎶❤
✊🏻🇵🇷✊🏻🇵🇷✊🏻🇵🇷
You r the best, keep doing your thing
I will learn this song and sing it loudly ❤
Wow just wow,,, Awsome shorts,,,thank you Girl
That's why the group needs more growth en la union esta la Fuerza
Sempre e dicho q esta pasando lo mismo se repite la historia y casi nadie quiere despertar por El miedo a lo q pueda cambiar eso es hasta q nos quiten a mi Isla bella despues se arrepienten de no aver echo nada y dejar que no quiten Todo lo que somos empesando por las Costas como colon.
Tenemos que parar El abuso y la tirania en nuestro pais y retomar El control que una vez tuvimos.
Interesting thanks for sharing.
Puerto Rico Independence Now!
Un galego aquí que apoya al pueblo de Puerto Rico
This I support, makes sense. The colonizers are always agents of peace bringing “freedom” in the name of our father.
Puerto Rico Libre!
Bianca you're A Warrior indeed!!
La Borinqueña is a colonizers version of our national anthem,just read the lirics at the end were it says cuando a sus playas llegó Colon, Colon the Hitler of our Taino Nation.
based Spain 🇪🇸
LMFAO I would approve of a interaction that topples the US government Puerto Rico and if they put a law where only Puerto Ricans can buy that land before it ends up like Hawaii
Shout out to Lola.
Wemen heroes.
She just learned this?!
¡despierta borinqueño que han dado la señal! ¡despierta de ese sueño que es hora de luchar!
i will always sing these correct lyrics 🫶🏼🫶🏽🫶🏾🫶🏿🩷🇵🇷¡VIVA PUERTO RICO LIBRE!🇵🇷
Señora a LLORAR a MATERNIDAD 😭😭😭😭
This is exactly correct. The current PR anthem is the colonial white-washed variant that was imposed on Puerto Ricans because the original anthem was about national freedom. Plain and simple.
You're using white technology right now to whine about white people. Feel free to go back to living in the stone age.
You’re welcome to stop utilizing Western technology and inventions anytime. Feel free to send your reply using a smoke signal, or whatever your primitive ancestors had.
Genuine question, not trying to play gotcha: If the message behind the anthem is that important, then why can’t it just be changed back to its revolutionary version? Does the average Boricua care enough about this, or is it just a trendy idea because of the newfound interest in anti-colonialism?
@@alancantu2557 Good questions. Unfortunately, part of the deal of being a colonial territory is to suppress any feelings or hopes of freedom. So the insular government was instructed to use the colonial version. "It's not personal, it's just business", as they say. Now, does the average Boricua care enough about this? That is a tough one. It is possible that a growing number do, not because of a newfound interest in anti-colonialism, but likely because of more access to information, leading to a newfound interest in history in general. The Puerto Rican flag itself is a rebel flag, so much so that it was banned from Puerto Rico itself for some time. The colonial arrangement was never meant to last forever, and the US has said "No" to statehood for over 125 years. This is not hard to figure out.
Hail Columbus
I love the history lesson!!
Damn. Bianca don't miss.
The original version is the version I remember when I searched up the anthem for the first time not the Columbus part.
The Indians supposedly caused a slaughter war against the Spaniards while Columbus was in Spanish. When Columbus returned from Spain, and saw what the Indians caused, Columbus became angry and pursued a slaughter war against the Indians
Ok,he was not born in PR. But he was spañish like us.we are spañish, puertoricans-spanish.ok
You are the Queen Bianca
That’s bananas… ok! Ima learn the Real version! And get a machete