+5 Yes, Puerto Rico is widely considered a colony—or often described as the world’s oldest colony—due to its status as an unincorporated U.S. territory. While residents are U.S. citizens, they lack voting representation in Congress, cannot vote for president,
I never said that it’s not an official language. Why accuse me of something I’ve not said? “Pointing out that this country’s identity is and should be about more than White English Speakers.” Yeah, as I said, the show was okay. But I wished I could have understood the lyrics as well. And I think a lot of other people would have wished for that as well. The ending show sign was very good though.
You haven’t read my comment by the way. I said I watched a video of it (on YouTube). There were no subtitles available under that video. I also haven’t said that this show should’ve pandered to White English speakers. That’s another baselesse accusation. I said it would have been a more powerful message, if the message he rapped about in the lyrics would have been at least partially understandable to English speakers. A mix would have shown how both languages are part of the same US-American identity. That’s what I was about.
How the fuck am I supposed to know as a German that this show had subtitles in the original tv screening? By the way, most people on Reddit have mentioned that it actually didn’t have any subtitles, so there were probably differences in to whom it was available. Maybe dependent on the tv station?
Fuck’s sake man. Why do you make up shit to get offended about? We’re on the same team. Some of you guys are a bunch of nitpicky assholes who thrive on finding things to argue about rather than trying to find things you might have in common.
It wasn’t for us, though. I speak EU Spanish and I didn’t gets lot of it, nor understand all the symbolism, but the celebration of the language and culture seems self evident.
I didn’t get all the symbolism in the Chinese Olympic opening performance, or countless other cultural performances, but I don’t see it as necessary to understand 100% to be able to appreciate the expression.
I don’t particularly care for Bad Bunny’s music, but the show felt to me like a powerful expression of cultural validity on a huge stage in a country where people are facing state violence for looking like they belong to that culture.
From what I’ve seen shared online from members of that latino/a community, they feel like it was incredibly powerful for them to see genuine representation at that level. To me that is more important than whether or not I personally understood all the language or symbolism.
Not an accusation, but part of my point.
YT not mentioned in your original comment; lack of subtitles on the video you saw not my problem nor my point.
Reread this angle a few times and maybe you’ll understand the problem. People understood the spirit of the message and that’s the real substance. That show broke viewership records: people knew what they were tuning in to and wanted to see it. Music is often called the “universal language” for a reason.
You’re not supposed to, and that’s not the point.
You’re doing exactly what you accuse me of & trying to delegitimize my points with strawman and ad hominem. With “teammates” like you, we don’t need enemies.
This is what I get for engaging with someone who talks about “successfully integrating subcultures”, I guess. Have a good life and may we never meet again.
ok, deflect then. why go through all that effort of writing all this if you don’t want an answer? Oh, right. You’re trying to pretend to yourself that you’re right.
enjoy your life in America then. seems to go swimmingly for guys like you who know everything about integration and understanding.
I don’t know everything, but I sure know better than someone who uses autistic as an insult in the year 2026.
Blocking you now. Feel free to have the last word if it makes you feel a bit more like a winner.
Thank you for blocking, fragile person. Be proxy-offended somewhere else.