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First not everyone is mixed like this article suggests. Second those who are mixed identify with one culture predomintaely, be it canarian or Peninsular derived PR culture which is different from more afro influenced PR culture. For example, when all PR's get together you will usually see Bomba and Plena played together because it unites us in festivities. But the Bombas are usually better known by the more afro people than by the average PR or the White PR's, even the lyrics and such.

There are PR's from average to White PR's who don't identify with Bomba but with ''Seis Chorriao'' which is plainly canarian derived and ''Nueva trova''. They don't necessarily shun afro culture, they just don't have it. Ironically we all eat PR cuisine which has a strong african element to it and some Taino.

What seems to be the common case is that the afro culture is not valued as much as the euro or canarian culture. That is only a case of having more Spanish culture and more spanish heritage.

I acknowledge my 1/18th (6%) west/central african ancestry, but that is after genetic tests. No one in my family taught me to value it and it does not have anything to do with racism directly speaking, they just did not identify with it. Even the Taino which is more prominent (1/8) in me was not taught directly. I always heard a favorable bias toward being visibly taino influenced than black influenced, because of the hair and melding of the features would be easier. PLenty of PR's who inherited a tiny amount of west african unseen to the eye inherited just by mating with other PR's who did not look to have any SSA physically either, so how can they identify with afro culture other than with what is included in the PR general culture which does embraces it but recognizes it as a minor contribution.

Also, we must take into account that people associate afro culture with paganism. The closer you are to paganism the further you are from god, even more so in a very Catholic society.

Besides what was considered previously I dont see how we dont respect or value the afro contribution culturally speaking since we enjoy afro derived or influenced music and we dance to it too equally as good as black PR's. Genetically we identify by what we see and the average PR, if you take me as a proxy and you said it yourself that my percentages where average, then it would be very hard to see how we must identify more with it than with Spanish culture.

I did the test by the way and told a Spaniard I was 10% black of which half was from slave and the other half from Sephardi Jews who mated in antiquity with East Africans. The guy just lol'ed at me and did not take it seriously, thought I was bragging. So it is really hard, and the people who usually write such inane babble are afro centric Puertoricans who look afro influenced but are probably much more EURO/MENA genetically.