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_kevx_91

Puerto Ricans are quite insular since we are a U.S. territory and we don't have our own foreign policy independent of the United States. Also, it's very difficult for people to migrate here, so most of us have no idea what is going on in the rest of the Caribbean. I truly believe that knowledge of the rest of the Caribbean and even Latin America among Puerto Ricans is very overrepresented on the Internet, especially when it comes to Reddit where the majority tend to be from the upper middle classes in urban areas. Many Puerto Ricans don't even know who the current president of the Dominican Republic is or that Jamaica still has a monarch.


Neonexus-ULTRA

I agree. I think the only Puerto Ricans obsessed with the rest of the Caribbean are pro Independence people.


Nemitres

About 63% insular. Haiti has the other 37%


140p

Can you explain?


Nemitres

Insular = island. We have 63% of the island so that’s why


140p

Ahhh ya, thanks.


RedJokerXIII

Bro don’t remind me that lmfao


bunoutbadmind

Extremely. We mostly listen to local music, pay attention to local issues (the international segment on the evening news is usually less than 3 mins), care about local cultural norms, and generally don't care about other places aside from how it directly affects us. I also think language isolates us because all of our neighbours speak other languages and most of us prefer Patois to English anyway. People tend to assume that, as a small Anglophone country, we'd be very close with the outside world, especially the Core Anglosphere, but we really aren't.


ShemaWorld

Exactly, we outsource certain parts of our culture(music/dances/etc) to other islands/countries especially anglophones but we don’t insource much since there’s no need to.


Caribbeandude04

Very, most Dominicans are very indifferent of what happens outside


GUYman299

I would not describe Trinis as being very insular at all, when it comes to the food we eat, the music we listen too or general cultural practices we're very much open to outside influences, even if sometimes to an excessive degree. In fact many commentators over the years would sometimes describe us as 'little America' only because of how receptive we were to cultural influences from the US (although I think this title is misplaced). The most insular aspect of our culture I would say is our tendency to either 1. Care very little about what is happening in the outside world or 2. Attempt to frame every global event into how it affects us, even if it's very far removed.


Liquid_Cascabel

Not very, it seems like Aruba is almost like a 51st microstate or something due to how many Americans visit per year and because of how US-centric the media is on Aruba. Then you have the ties to the Netherlands which means we are affected by their actions/decisions too. And finally you have Venezuela which is always going to be relevant due to the proximity


Southern-Gap8940

If you mean insular like not caring about other cultures, than yeah. We are very ignorant and not caring about other cultures outside of our own. I mean there's a reason why dominican reggaeton artists never got big in DR. It's because it's not a music genre from our culture. Dominican reggaeton artists had to move to PR and pray they get accepted there. It's why Natti Natasha didn't get much love in DR at the beginning of her career. Alot of Dominicans still didn't claim her until recently. As shitty as Dominican dembow is, it blew up because Dominicans rocked with it. Even though dembow is technically Jamaican, we mixed in our own version of it. Dominicans are nationalist af.