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Consider the following scenario:

You're born in England.

You marry an Englishman/woman.

You decide to move to Puerto Rico (perhaps its the sun).

There, you have a child.

The lot of you move to the U.S.
Your child marries a girl who's family also moved from England to PR, and then to the U.S.

They stay in the U.S. and have several children.

Aside form their parents being born in Puerto Rico, the bulk of their family tree is English.

Furthermore, aside from a group families branching out from those who moved to Puerto Rico, the rest of the family line still lives in England.

Are these children Puerto Ricans, Americans, or Brits?
Now, replace England with Spain, Puerto Rico with Cuba, the Puerto Rican-born parents involved with my own, and the U.S.-born children with my brothers and myself.

Now, you see why I don't call myself a Cuban-American or whatever.

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