Identity confusion does lead to static stagnation

Identity confusion does lead to static stagnation The instability of a main segment of the Puerto Rican poor produces a static stagnation within the group. And, this stagnation is significantly an outcome of identity confusion. And, the roots of this stagnation can be traced to the many years of subjugation of the people of the island of Puerto Rico. Since the Amerindians downfall at the hands of the conquistadors in the early 1500’s the islanders have been consecutively under the tutelage of imperial Spain and the United States of America. That is, five hundred years of colonial rule; five centuries of existence without nationhood. Therefore, the people of the island of Borinquen have been but mere wards of two superpowers since its colonization. However, it may be interjected that Puerto Rico was granted insular self-government by Spain when the Carta Autonomica (a form of constitutional autonomy) was approved by the Spanish Cortes on November 25, 1987. And, by the time of the first elections in March 1898, tensions between Spain and the United States were quickly mounting; and, this resulted in a very short-lived self-government of one month with the advent of the Spanish-American War, as on April 21, 1988, President McKinley asked Congress to declare war on Spain. After the cessation of hostilities, the United Sates and Spain signed the Treaty of Paris of 1898, on December 10, 1898, which ceded Puerto Rico to the United States. The people of Puerto Rico expected quick independence after a brief stay in the hands of the United States. That was not to be case as the Giant to the North recognized the strategic importance of the island. And, as a matter of fact, of all Spanish colonial possessions in the Americas, Puerto Rico is the only territory that never gained its independence. That said, it comes to the front that its people are totally removed from the sense of a national identity.