NYRICAN

[podling]

I saw this license plate today. NJ license, "NYRICAN". Now, I'm pretty sure they requested this, given that it spells out a word (of sorts), but what *exactly* is it that they're trying to say?

Is it a play on "american", like, "I'm from NY, yet american and patriotic"? Or is it more vague than that, like, I'm from puerto rico (hence, puerto RICAN) and from NY, giving us NYRICAN? Discuss.

Comments

Re: Not MEANT to be not PC...just to inform.

[podling]

I think there are generic unspoken caste systems with pretty much all of the racial groupings. I mean, really, look at the history of racial stuff in Boston. At one point, the Irish were moving there in droves. And people wouldn't even hire them. Then they became status quo and accepted, as Italians became the newer minority. It's a cyclical thing. And even though most, if not all, of the people in Boston at that time were of European descendents, they still had a caste system of sorts going on. So it's not really a surprise that various minorities of Spanish (mostly) descent have the same sort of thing.

And I think it's good to keep a sense of history and home ideals, but there are many immigrants who do see that as somewhat wrong. For instance, my father absolutely refused to let us learn Italian. He had many reasons for this, but part of it was that he wanted my brother and I to be american children.