Why did you leave us papa America?

Why did you leave us papa America?

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Why didn't you won against america,el matador?

They had more population, biggest land and better weapons, I suppose.

I have read that the Spanish were not too interested in maintaining the Philippines because it was too expensive, also.

Because we don't do empire to rule over territory. We do empire to build states we can rely upon for trade and military alliances down the road.

If your local population can't figure out how to run things properly, that's on you.

what about hawaii

Hawaii was already full of Americans when we got it and it made a perfect forward base for projecting power into the pacific.

what about Puerto Rico?

Too important to leave floating in the wind. Puerto Rico is well-positioned to act as a gateway into the Mississippi River system that covers most of the US, so it's great for trade and devastating for an enemy to hold on to. Controlling (or at least maintaining a heavy hand in) Puerto Rico is absolutely critical for maintaining the absolute physical security of the United States.

Cuba would be even better but it wasn't in the cards to take control of Cuba after the war.

so why not just give it statehood instead of a special snowflake spichole

1) We can't unilaterally grant statehood to a territory - it's unconstitutional. That territory must vote for statehood (along with a state constitution) and politics on the island are something of a shitshow right now. PR's government keeps holding non-binding plebiscites instead of actual referendums.

2) Puerto Rico's financials would have to be sorted out, which is hard medicine to swallow for most of the island's remaining residents. It's slowly happening (look at the recent privatization of the electrical utility there) but it's happening in the context of a lot of pushback.

Can't you just use your CIA magic to turn it into a state? Why can't it be a part of an existing state then?

The CIA is great at destabilizing antagonistic elements, but it's notoriously rubbish at building stable polities.

And your second suggestion would be even harder - we'd need Puerto Rico to vote to join the other state *and* the other state to vote to accept Puerto Rico into their borders.

can't Puerto Rico be something like the Congo Free State where it's a private property of the President,thus elevating it to a semi state territory?

They should send a lot of White Americans (retirees, unemployed youth, rednecks) to Americanize the island. I am sure that in a few generations the descendants of those Americans would defend the total union of Puerto Rico with the United States.

Anyway we do not lose anything valuable, the culture of Puerto Rico is absolutely disgusting, it is for Spain like Jamaica for England, culturally speaking.

PR has the opposite problem actually - all of its young people are leaving and with the devastation wrought by the hurricanes, it's happening faster than ever now. There's a distinct possibility that Puerto Rico might be nearly completely depopulated within a decade or two.

Absolutely not. The executive branch (aka the president) already theoretically administers the island, but he's not some sort of absolute ruler who can do whatever he wants. He's constrained by the constitution and laws of the United States.

>wrought by hurricanes every year
>important

just let it go then.It'd probably sink in the ocean within a few years

>PR has the opposite problem actually - all of its young people are leaving and with the devastation wrought by the hurricanes, it's happening faster than ever now. There's a distinct possibility that Puerto Rico might be nearly completely depopulated within a decade or two.

So? That greatly facilitates the Americanization of the island with new White settlers.

Nobody wants to live on Puerto Rico, not even the Puerto Ricans.

You could make the island habitable with casinos for retirees, factories and tourist areas. Better that than let the island die.

Puerto Rico has to compete with much nicer Caribbean shitholes like the Virgin Islands, Cuba, and Florida for that business, and it tends to lose out :/

Well, then throw an atomic bomb to the island or anything. It's your responsibility to rid the world of that human scum.

But my wife is Puerto Rican...

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>Philippines depicted as brown black person

We're Spanish ffs

Sure.

>cherrypicking a minority

> Criticizing cherrypicking a minority cherrypicking another minority.

Very inteligente.

Philippines is Basically just Spanish New Zealand except you didn't genocide the natives like the Anglos did

that's the average Filipino though more browner

STFU, i'll steal your genes

In what aspects? New Zealand share many cultural elements with Britain, also both speak the same language. I see fewer similarities between the Philippines and Spain than between Haiti and France (they at least share a language).

Except most of what we did there has been destroyed by America and Japan so we don't really share much.

It's because of the American efforts in the island. Hell even the mountainous north were fluent in English while dou just surveyed the area

Once Chavacano is spoken in some Spanish held locations(Manila, Cavite, Zamboanga) but fell out place

Some historians defend that the Yankees even commited a genocide of Spanish speakers on the island.

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>native language with spanish words like zapatos,bartolina,dios,casa,silla,ventana or words in Spanish that has been change to fit filipino pronounciations like hélice becoming elise

>largest catholic nation in Asia

It's basically like New Zealand but the spanish culturally assimilated them instead of going full anglo genocide

Intramuros is still there and afaik churches being built there have the same designs as Spanish Churches

Should should have given independence to the Philippines

shite, no wonder we sucked the English language harder than Spanish. We'll revive Spanish as soon as USA add Spanish as its co-fficial language soon

at least Filipino is full of Spanish loan words(tinidor, kutchara, kubyertos, asul, and many more)

fun fact
Spanish was once one of the official languages of the Philippines before Cory Aquino removed it from the constitution
My filipino co-worker told me that which answered my question as to why she spoke some spanish words

Cuck
I’ll bet OP is a tagalog degenerate.

he's a Clark fag, faggot
He misses his American dad

We still use the expression "de aquí a Manila" (from here to Manila) when some place is very far away.

Why don't Fillipino women just turn to the BBCs?
Make Philippines BLACK again

Maybe he’s butthurt his pretty city will be plague with squatters tagalogs soon.

They actually make fun of black people over there
My friend told me that they scare children by saying a black demon would drag them to hell

This is how we portray them in tv. Hehe

WTF

Blackface is tolerated in asia. Just so you know.
Japan, Korea, and Thailand also do this.

Good thing Sugbu doesn't have that

It would be a blue state and red congressmen want to protect their party.

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Have you ever wonder why Bruno Mars is short?

whenever i look up incidences of blackface in asia, there's always mention of controversy, but it seems entirely relegated to the western world commenting upon you. how do you guys react to the international accusations of racial insensitivity, if at all?

taller than you,zikri

Ashamed.

The aetas should rule this country.

Only wh*Tes can be racist fyi.

thankfully we invented the concept of "honorary whites" to refer to you asians

America deserved their 56% status

Can't figure out a good way to put 51 stars on the flag

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