PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Dobles, Ricardo
AU  - Segarra, Jose Antonio
TI  - Introduction: Symposium: Puerto Rican Education
AID  - 10.17763/haer.68.2.l15pq831t2671850
DP  - 1998 Jul 01
TA  - Harvard Educational Review
PG  - vii--xvi
VI  - 68
IP  - 2
4099  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/68/2/vii.short
4100  - http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/68/2/vii.full
SO  - herp1998 Jul 01; 68
AB  - When the writers and producers of the NBC television series Seinfeld, including Jerry Seinfeld himself, decided to burn the Puerto Rican flag on national television, they performed a great service for the Puerto Rican people. Albeit unwittingly, this singular event reminded Puerto Ricans of how poorly we are regarded in the American psyche. Puerto Ricans everywhere were forced to ask themselves, would the people of Seinfeld and NBC dare burn any flag other than the Puerto Rican flag? That act, committed presumably in the interest of humor, only poured salt on a hundred-year-old wound. Since October 18, 1898, the day the United States raised its flag on the island of Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans and their flag have been little more than a joke and an occasional nuisance to the American people.