tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79183762397018540102024-03-07T09:14:25.668-05:00American TaínoCommentary from the perspective of an American LatinoAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.comBlogger1126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-51198678347692050042014-12-21T21:10:00.000-05:002014-12-21T21:10:04.818-05:00Margarita Espada: the art of social change<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-82773698529049876062014-12-19T15:58:00.002-05:002014-12-19T16:19:27.771-05:00Dreaming of a Coquito Christmas by Suset Laboy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">M</span></b></i>y feverish obsession with making the best coquito took off
4 years ago. I had settled back in Nuyorico after a one year research stint in
Puerto Rico. New (once more) to my Puerto Rican community in New York, I set to
perfect the recipe of my foremothers. Scratch that. I set to one-up the Carmen
Aboy Valldejulis’s in my life, and claim my Puertoricanness amongst my new
Puerto Rican community. I would like to think that I succeeded in making the
best coquito. Anyone who has ever made coquito will try to prove me wrong, but
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-11654350201627529092014-10-11T01:12:00.001-05:002014-10-11T20:19:39.831-05:00Rosie at Seabreeze<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-90281249332640458322014-06-07T10:30:00.002-05:002014-06-07T10:30:53.612-05:00How to dress your children for tomorrow's NYC Puerto Rican Day Parade in NYC -- or the one in your hometown. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-19719347095056751422014-05-24T15:28:00.000-05:002014-12-22T00:50:02.295-05:00Remembering Yolanda Sanchez<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-57847320870301648392013-12-26T13:13:00.001-05:002013-12-26T13:13:45.770-05:00Puerto Rico's Projected 2100 Population Minus 1 Million to 2.8 Million<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-68542898349951942632013-12-22T21:33:00.000-05:002013-12-22T21:34:04.459-05:00Melissa Mark Viverito: NYC's Next City Council President<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Melissa Mark Viverito is on the verge of becoming New York City's next Council President. She has the backing of mayor-elect Bill DeBlasio, SEIU and 30 or so of her peers on the City Council. If victorious in the January 8th election, Mark Viverito -- who's Puerto Rican -- becomes the first person of Latino heritage to hold the powerful post.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-56626487053662856612013-11-17T11:40:00.003-05:002013-11-17T11:40:43.652-05:00Rhode Island's Tavares and Elorza <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-80530470676155324302013-08-12T19:47:00.000-05:002013-08-12T20:32:25.773-05:00El Grupo Ecos Borincanos: Keeping Jibaro Music Alive! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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El Grupo Ecos Borincanos played at this past weekend's Puerto Rican Festival in Rochester, NY; next, Market Street Park, Auburn New York, 6 pm!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-45496003919855515502013-08-11T22:55:00.000-05:002013-08-13T10:33:20.276-05:00Zainnia Vegas and Her Lakota Grandmother Blackwolfe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Zainnia Vegas (left) is with beloved Lakota grandmother Blackwolfe on the prairie in South Dakota. Born to Irish/Blackfoot and Puerto Rican parents, Zainnia traces her Borikua heritage on her mother's side to the early migrations of Puerto Rican farmworkers and merchant marines to California and Hawaii -- where she still has family. She's never been to Boriken, but Ziannia is very proud of her Taino heritage. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-74132231037257121382013-08-11T10:46:00.001-05:002013-08-11T10:46:28.965-05:00Mercedes Vazquez Simmons and son at the Rochester PR Festival for the Ruben Blades Concert<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The lovely<a href="https://www.facebook.com/mercedes.v.simmons/about"> Mercedes Vazquez Simmons</a> takes a break from her role as Founder & CEO of <a href="http://www.prettygirlpromos.com/">Pretty Girl Productions- Boxing Pretty Girl Promotions</a> to enjoy the music of Ruben Blades with her son Taylor at yesterday's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/280919100773/">Puerto Rican Festival</a> in Rochester, New York. </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-75185012882585270372013-08-04T07:34:00.000-05:002013-08-04T07:54:05.286-05:00Beautiful Faces: Rochester, NY's Puerto Rican Parade<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A mother and daughter enjoy yesterday's 43rd Annual Puerto Rican Parade in Rochester, NY. </div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-60069843213179148632013-08-02T20:46:00.000-05:002013-08-02T20:46:35.560-05:00Bristol, PA Keeps PR Jibaro Culture Alive!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Photo series from the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151429224991511.1073741833.174032711510&type=1">42nd Annual Puerto Rican Day Festival</a> of Bristol, PA -
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-3170021983883019872013-07-18T09:25:00.002-05:002013-07-18T09:36:19.937-05:00Latina Converts to Islam Growing in Number<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="line-height: 16px;">[By converting to Islam, some Latinos may also feel as if they're connecting to their Spanish roots, which are embedded for 800 years in Islamic history in Spain's southeast population centers of Granada, Cordova, Seville and Andalusia.] </span><br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-90317904179703077772013-04-01T14:21:00.000-05:002013-04-02T20:24:36.177-05:00Your Spanish Ancestors Were North Africans <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Were your 'Spanish' ancestors European as most Puerto Ricans believe, or African -- North African, to be precise? </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">1) The indigenous of the Canary Islands -- Guanche -</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">- are genetically Berber, i.e., North African. Berber bloodlines predominate among the people of today's West North Africa (Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria). Spain's Canary Islands lie off the coast of North West Africa and are geographically part of the continent of Africa. Recent genetic studies found a high percentage of Berber (upwards of 72%) mtDNA [direct maternal] lineages among Canary Islanders.<br /><br />2) Records show the migration of Canary Islanders to Puerto Rico in successive waves beginning with Columbus' 2nd voyage in 1493 and continuing to the Spanish American War, 1898. Actually, the first Guanche to Puerto Rico were brought forcibly as slaves to replace the devastated Tainos. The later waves of Canary Islanders arrived as poor, rural Spanish colonial 'subjects' who migrated to Puerto Rico's agricultural regions in search of a better life. It is their music, food, dialect, community life and olive skins that make-up the "Spanish" component of the island's Jibaro culture.<br /><br />3) Recent DNA sampling in Puerto Rico found strong evidence of mtDNA matches for Guanche genetics. In some sampled communities 55% of the residents contain the markers, while in others, particularly in the Western portion of the island, it's as high as 82%.</span><img src="http://media.zenfs.com/es-ES/blogs/historia/Estatua-de-Guanche-Flickriver-nigelallinson.jpg" /><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Tinguaro was a Guanche leader who defeated the Spanish conquistadors at a battle in the hills of Acentejo, Island of Tenerife, Canary Islands. The area is now called La Matanza de Acentejo because the Spanish returned and slaughtered all of the local Guanche people.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-66240745690058118592013-03-28T01:01:00.000-05:002013-03-31T22:16:11.748-05:00Puerto Rico's Canary Islands Connection<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Canary Islanders contributions to the history and culture of
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dialect of the Canary Islander migrants. The <a href="http://www.cuatro-pr.org/node/71">Tiple</a> and Puerto Rico's beloved Jibaro culture's <span style="font-family: inherit;">"Spanish" contribution trace back to Canarios (also known as Isleños).</span><br />
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<<Es relativamente frecuente encontrar textos en los que nos hacen saber las influencias que ha recibido el singular español hablado en Canarias. El texto que les presentamos hoy, en cambio, nos sugiere las influencias que ha tenido nuestra modalidad lingüística en el español hablado en la isla de Puerto Rico.
Llegaron desde sus tierras españolas con mirada hacia el poniente a las nuestras, de un archipiélago montañoso de formación volcánica a otro de características similares. Arribaron en oleadas, la primera de las cuales fue para el 1536; llegando otra de mayor fuerza para el 1695. Se ubicaron en tierras antillanas: en la hermana República Dominicana, sirvieron de freno a la ocupación francesa y se dedicaron al ganado y al tabaco; en Puerto Rico, realizaron su primer poblamiento en Río Piedras, trasladaron a estas tierras el culto a La Candelaria y fueron los pioneros del trabajo de la caña. Nos dejaron toponimia como el denominar los lugares como altos o bajos: Toa Alta, Toa Baja, Vega Alta, Vega Baja; Hatillo, Aguadilla, Quebradillas… Fundamentalmente concentrados en el norte, un poco hacia el centro y hacia el oeste de nuestra isla grande -Puerto Rico-, nos dejaron también apellidos: Amador, Chávez, Acosta, Aguiar, Borges, Dones, Fragoso, Jiménez, Machado, Marrero, Silva, Sosa…
De latín canis -perro- proviene el nombre para este archipiélago ubicado en el Océano Atlántico a 60 millas al noroeste de África. Su nombre surge por la abundancia de perros en estas islas en épocas antiguas y está compuesto por Fuerteventura, La Gomera, Gran Canaria, El Hierro, Lanzarote, La Palma y Tenerife. Estas islas constituyen a su vez dos provincias de España denominadas Santa Cruz de Tenerife y Las Palmas, y dos capitales que reciben los nombres de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria y Santa Cruz de Tenerife. El conjunto de estas islas da nombre a las aves conocidas como canarios y a la flor que comúnmente identificamos en Puerto Rico como canaria.
Hoy quedan claros reductos de su fuerte presencia en nuestra formación como nación, los que se perciben en nuestra modalidad boricua del habla que, como ha afirmado el aiboniteño Manuel Álvarez Nazario, no difiere apenas del habla cotidiana de los canarios:
"El hijo de nuestro país que recorre los caminos de Gran Canaria y Tenerife, por ejemplo, oye un habla de entonación tan cercana a la suya, apoyada además en rasgos fonéticos, gramaticales y léxicos de tantas coincidencias, con lo íntimo particular de su isla, que llega a tener por momentos la impresión de no haber salido de su propia tierra."
Coincidencias de pronunciación tales como la sustitución de i en lugar de la e como en nochi, por noche; vinagri o lechi por vinagre o leche; sustitución de u por o como en amarillitu por amarillito y toditu por todito; el decir bíhne por virgen. También se dan tendencias sintácticas y preferencias de tiempos verbales que son de claro influjo canario. Pero donde más se aprecia su presencia es en nuestras particularidades léxicas, aunque muchas de ellas igualmente se dan en la Península Ibérica, pero según los estudios lingüísticos parecen arrancar y llegar a Puerto Rico directamente de las Islas Canarias.
En nuestro vocabulario cotidiano se percibe la presencia canaria en voces tales como chubasco -súbita caída de lluvia-, de donde deriva el acto de enchumbarse, virazón-barrunto -mal tiempo, precursor de lluvia-. Se aprecia igualmente en el denominar a una mata pequeña como matojo, al molusco gelatinoso como aguaviva y al niño inquieto como jiribilla. Son señaladas también como canarias, por parte de Álvarez Nazario en su Historia de la lengua española en Puerto Rico, palabras tales como atacuñarse -llenarse de comida-, ajumarse -emborracharse-, trancar la puerta -por cerrarla-. El llamar pileta al lavadero, fósforo a la cerilla, chiquero a la pocilga, apelar a una persona mediante el uso de voces como cristiano o maestro, aludir al recado como mandado, a la boda como casorio, llamar chinchal al tenducho y purruchada a la gran cantidad de dinero... son también influencias canarias en el habla cotidiana boricua, según el citado lingüista. Nos dejaron también otras voces de trazo despectivo tales como gallito para el hombre peleón, mamalón, parejero y parejería, bambalán, cerrero…
Los guanches y las guanchas, como se conoce a los canarios, dejaron su influjo en nuestra fraseología cotidiana de las que se recogen muchas en el libro de Álvarez Nazario tales como estar vivito y coleando, estar grueso y colora’o, caerse las alas del corazón, hacerse el loco, no levantar los pies del suelo, el toma y daca, del tingo al tango, como el que no quiere la cosa, no ser muy allá, pegar a trabajar, el ¿noverdá?, y a mí que me parta un rayo.
Como síntesis a su capítulo dedicado a la aportación dialectal de los canarios en tierras boricuas, señala Álvarez Nazario que puede apreciarse en los estudios lingüísticos la clara influencia del español llamado meridional que arranca de la región andaluza traducido y tamizado a través del habla canaria para conformar un habla regional boricua con fundamento isleño canario, influjos que nos llegan precisamente en el momento cuando desarrolla y consolida sus perfiles de permanencia la sociedad puertorriqueña, siendo, pues, lo canario, junto a lo taíno y lo africano, un componente más en el crisol de forja de la Nación Puertorriqueña.
Este texto ha sido previamente publicado en el Semanario Claridad, de San Juan de Puerto Rico.>>
-Gracias a Francis Sorses para RICO PUERTO RICO
http://www.bienmesabe.org/noticia/2008/Noviembre/hablemos-espanol-migraciones-canarias
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-33388189073632749692013-03-27T23:44:00.000-05:002013-03-27T23:44:08.140-05:00Taino in the Southeast US pre-1492<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
[Taino Indians lived at least as far north as the Smoky Mountains. ¿Como? ¿Puertorriqueños en América del Norte antes de que Cristóbal Colón? ¡Por seguro! Forensic geologists and Native American scholars are opening the flood gates of new knowledge about North America’s past.] <br />
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The petroglyphs from Arecibo, PR and Atlanta, GA both portray a Taino guardian spirit.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-54379208832266964852013-03-08T23:52:00.001-05:002013-03-08T23:52:42.679-05:00Luz Suarez de Highfield<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Luz Suarez de Highfield is a St Croix native and bilingual teacher who serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the US Virgin Islands University.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-87254966562164526732013-02-12T00:38:00.001-05:002013-02-12T00:38:34.399-05:00Jack Delano's Puerto Rico Photo Series 1941-89<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/a-masterwork-spanning-40-years-and-one-island/">A Masterwork Spanning 40 Years and One Island by David Gonzalez.</a><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-3831059926897377282013-02-10T21:45:00.002-05:002013-02-10T21:45:25.799-05:00Winters by the Lake<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-77382009030257640422013-02-10T21:37:00.001-05:002013-02-10T21:37:33.544-05:00The Farm Worker...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-82034324856595401112013-02-10T21:30:00.000-05:002013-02-10T21:30:17.336-05:00Ruzena Maribel Santamaría Mamani: Bolivia's new ambassador to Ecuador<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06449454505022085892noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7918376239701854010.post-816035514763631612013-01-14T09:50:00.000-05:002013-02-20T22:29:59.081-05:0060 Minutes: Justice Sotomayor prefers "Sonia from the Bronx"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Interviews with Supreme Court justices are rare. But tonight even more so because in 223 years, there has never been a justice like Sonia Sotomayor. </div>
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Among other things, she's the first Hispanic on the Court, she's the daughter of Puerto Rican immigrants who settled in the Bronx -- that New York melting pot that pours out streetwise kids and American success stories.</div>
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Sotomayor, now 58 years old, calls the streets of her childhood, "My Beloved World," and that's the name of her new memoir. In her first broadcast interview, she told us that the neighborhood gave a poor girl, with a serious illness, a chance to serve and an opportunity to become one of the most powerful women in America.</div>
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<b>Sonia Sotomayor<i> (in Spanish)</i>: </b>Hello. How are you?</div>
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<b>Neighbor: </b>Welcome to your old neighborhood.</div>
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<b>Sonia Sotomayor <i>(in Spanish)</i>:</b> Thank you.]</div>
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You could believe she never left. They remember and she's never forgotten. Seems the only difference is the security detail which she really never needed in the Bronx.</div>
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<b>Scott Pelley:</b> You know, your brother told us that more than once in this neighborhood he got beaten up.</div>
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<b>Sonia Sotomayor: </b>Yep. And more than once I beat up the person who beat him up.</div>
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<b>Scott Pelley: </b>You stood up for your brother.</div>
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<b>Sonia Sotomayor:</b> Oh, you asked me the other day if I was a tough cookie, and---</div>
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A tough cookie who never crumbled at a setback.</div>
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<b>Sonia Sotomayor:</b> I am the most obstinate person you will ever meet. I have a streak of stubbornness in me that I think is what has accounted for some of my success in life. There is some personal need to persevere, to fight the fight. And if you just try and be stubborn about trying you can do what you set your mind to.</div>
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Sonia Sotomayor set her mind to being a judge at the age of 10. And three presidents agreed. Appointed to a federal court by the first George Bush, she was promoted to the Appeals Court by Bill Clinton. And in 2009 selected for the Supreme Court by President Obama.</div>
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<b>Scott Pelley:</b> Your first day working here: terrifying?</div>
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<b>Sonia Sotomayor: </b>Overwhelmingly terrifying. I was so anxiety ridden. I was so nervous that day that my knees knocked. And I thought everybody in the courtroom could hear them knocking.</div>
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<b>Scott Pelley: </b>Well, come on. You'd been a federal judge for more than 15 years at that point.</div>
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<b>Sonia Sotomayor: </b>I had not been a Supreme Court justice. It's a very different stage.</div>
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On this stage she's one of the most vocal questioners. And her vote most often falls on the liberal side. She helped uphold the Health Care Act and strike down tough illegal immigration statues. Back in the Bronx as a girl, she set her heart on being a cop --inspired by Nancy Drew novels and TV. But by the age of 8, the plot of her life was rewritten by diabetes.</div>
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<b>Scott Pelley: </b>The doctors told you because of your Type 1 diabetes--</div>
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<b>Sonia Sotomayor:</b> --Type 1 diabetes. At any rate--</div>
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<b>Scott Pelley:</b> --you couldn't be a cop.</div>
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<b>Sonia Sotomayor: </b>Yes, I couldn't be a cop. I figured out very quickly, watching "Perry Mason," that I could do some of the same things by being a lawyer.</div>
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<b style="color: #333333; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Scott Pelley:</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', arial, hirakakupro-w3, osaka, 'ms pgothic', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So, we are sitting in the Supreme Court today because you read "Nancy Drew" and watched "Perry Mason" on TV?</span> <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57563700/justice-sotomayor-prefers-sonia-from-the-bronx/">CBS 60 Minute Interview (12:00 minute video)</a>
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