it didn't matter to my family whether they were Irish, English, Jewish, Scandinavian, or of any Slavic, Middle Eastern or Eastern European extraction. And it didn't matter what part of the USA they hailed from, either. If they only spoke English, they were Crackers. Only the Italian- and German-Americans were specified as to country of origin. Maybe it was the War.

I lived and worked in Puerto Rico for a year and I experienced profound culture shock as I realized how different they were from me. But by any objective evaluation, the Boricuas probably culturally resemble the Cubanos more than any other people.