When my siblings and I were little he rarely talked about it. We only heard Spanish when he was speaking to his family on the phone, which was rare, and other than some of the food I don't recall really feeling connected to Puerto Rico when I was a kid.

Well when racism started to rear its head in my dad's career, he started to remember his homeland and all of a sudden he's upset that his kids don't speak fluent Spanish...as if somehow that was something that should have just been absorbed instead of learned.

Skin color and phenotypes are genetic, culture isn't.


"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts..." -The Bard