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• “My experience and that of other non Puerto Ricans living here is, in courts or traffic accidents if a non Puerto Rican is pitted against a local, the authorities always give the benefit of doubt in favor of locals.”

  CNN Poll: Do Americans want Sotomayor confirmed?

• “The Costa Rican is clear for a split second, but Bassong is over quickly to close the angle and send Ruiz scuttling off the wrong way.”

  The Guardian: Tottenham Hotspur v FC Twente – as it happened

• “Well this Puerto Rican is an Obama supporter all the way.”

  Clinton rallies union in Puerto Rico

• “He wasn’t accepted as a Latino or Puerto Rican by whites or blacks and was called the N word, but his light skin Rican friends didn’t experience this, therefore they didn’t understand his pain.”

  Life of the Party: Latin Flair in Washington - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

• “My own great tia (QEPD) handed me a well worn copy of the book as an adolescent to show me what kind of Rican I wasn't.”

  VivirLatino

• “I had been in Costa Rica all week and planned to discover a deep nuance about Costa Rican culture.”

  The Huffington Post: Devin Galaudet: Waiting to Dance in Costa Rica

• “Every Costa Rican hike started sunny and ended in a downpour.”

  The Huffington Post: Devin Galaudet: Waiting to Dance in Costa Rica

• “Unfortunately, my Tico (local Costa Rican) friends that had promised to take me out to a local club were now carefully and silently backing out of the deal.”

  The Huffington Post: Devin Galaudet: Waiting to Dance in Costa Rica

• “My biggest problem with CR vs. MX is that I don't find Costa Rican culture nearly as interesting as Mexican culture.”

  Mexico versus Costa Rica

• “When my 1/2 Puerto Rican granddaughter was a pre-schooler (and living with her Spanish-speaking grandmother in Miami) I asked her "hablas espanol?”

  What Were The First Words or Phrases You Learned?

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