Perez: My Story

     The Puerto Rican culture is widely known to be a "mixed breed" of sort, since after Columbus came to the island a mix of Spanish, African and Taino has marked the island. Perez, at least, is of Spanish-Jewish from voyagers that came here with Columbus way back in the late 1800's. Although the Jewish religion never flourished in Puerto Rico many of its followers were forced by the Spanish church to become Catholics. As for my present family regarding immigration, most of my family lives in the US including close relatives like, uncles and grandparents, but non of them have problems with the US law system, which is common regarding the fact that Puerto Rico is a commonwealth of the US, meaning we already have citizenship.