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WHY PUERTO RICO....*We are a mix of many races. *Our legal drinking age is 18. *We can't care less what other people think of us. *We are not only bilingual but we can speak "Spanglish" *Our women are some of the most beautiful in the world, (5 Miss Universe) *We are LATIN, and yet AMERICANS *Mofongo (that's all I have to say) *In PR, any road will take you to a beach..... or a pub. *We are the only "territory" of another country with our own Olympic teams. *We do everything under the sun... because we CAN! *Because even though we are a territory we are still a whole NATION. *We don't need to take vacations to be in a tropical paradise. *In PR everything is really close. *I can call you sir ("USTED"), and insult you in the same sentence. *Our Spanish is completely different than any other Spanish speaking country. *We have the best athletes in the world. *We make some of the best coffee of the world. *WE CAN DANCE!!!! *They come from around the world to hire our engineers and scientists. *We are the country with the most roads by square mile (and there is still traffic). *We have the longest swimming pool in the world (Cerromar) *La "Calle del Cristo" (San Juan P.R.) was the first road of "The New World " to be paved. *86% of the rum drunk in the U.S. is from Puerto Rico . *We have more female engineers than any other country. (and you still call us machistas?) *We know how to party, without absurd curfew laws. *We are the major RUM manufacturer of the world. *The bats for the Movie Batman Forever were filmed in Las Cuevas de Camuy. *We kicked the DREAM TEAM's ass *Puerto Rico has one of the world's highest productivity ratios. *Salsa music was the fastest growing genre in the last 20 years. *Four Puerto Ricans received the Congress Medal of Honor: Eurípides Rubio, Carlos Lozada, Héctor Santiago and Fernando Luis Ledesma García. *Only 4 baseball players have 2 Home Runs in the same Inning; 3 of them are Puerto *Ricans (Roberto Clemente, Roberto Alomar and Carlos Baerga) *Tito Trinidad never went to the Olympics but defeated 4 gold medal champions. *A Puerto Rican, Nellie Toledo , designed the 1984 Camaro Berlinetta. *We were the 5th country in THE WORLD to have a radio station. (before Washington D.C.) *Junior Cordero (Puerto Rican) won the Kentucky Derby 3 times. *There is only 7 fluorescent lagoons in the world; we have 4 of them. *Giovanni Hidalgo is considered the best percussionist in THE WORLD. *Jose Feliciano is in the top 3 guitar players in THE WORLD (don't forget he is blind). *The Discovery 500; Solar car designed by the Mayaguez College won 41 awards in Sunrayace, Iowa in 1993. *We established the first lottery system in the New World *etc., etc., etc., *NOT TO BAD FOR A 100 X 35 MILES ISLAND ...