I'm a gringo and I have been married to my beautiful Puerto Rican wife for over 13 years, and wouldn't change it for the world. Best part is sharing the traditions and foods.

@dougkalagian

9 ай бұрын

Love it, thank you for sharing!

@jrx2662

7 ай бұрын

you'll one bless guy!

My wife is from Puerto Rico. We have 2 kids together. Im a gringo 😅. I absolutely love the culture..

@dougkalagian

11 ай бұрын

❤️

@adamlopez3561

4 ай бұрын

I used to think Puerto rican women were like that nice actress from the Wedding Planner but I was wrong.

@dougkalagian

4 ай бұрын

@adamlopez3561 haha what do you mean

@adamlopez3561

4 ай бұрын

@@dougkalagian Thought Puerto Rican girls were like Jennifer Lopez from Wedding Planner but I don't think they are.

@dougkalagian

4 ай бұрын

@adamlopez3561 haha dang I haven’t seen it. What was her character like ?

I’m a typical white American man and fell in love with a Puerto Rican lady 33 years ago, we’re still happily married and we made two daughters together. I went to Spanish language school at night to learn Spanish to better understand her family and culture.

@dougkalagian

7 ай бұрын

That’s a very sweet story, thank you for sharing!!

@dougkalagian

7 ай бұрын

Have you become fluent in Spanish?

@echohunter4199

7 ай бұрын

@@dougkalagian it depends on who I speak with since there’s a LOT of different dialects and they often use different words that confuse the hell out of me but, with Puerto Ricans and Cubans I understand them just fine. I’d place myself at around 40% fluent but when I’m in PR or Spain and I’m surrounded by Spanish speakers it pushes me to learn and speak more Spanish and I don’t have a typical guero accent. Watching TV commercials where some white guy is speaking Spanish horribly is like listening to fingernails on a chalkboard.

@anactaneustheeleventh2542

3 ай бұрын

@echohunter4199 👍 Nice!!!

Awww that young man just warmed my heart. Idk how I even got here, but I'm happy I'm here. ❤

@dougkalagian

8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed 😌 Thanks for stopping by

I'm a man from Mayaguez Puerto Rico and I've been married to my American wife for 28 years and we have 2 wonderful kids. I absolutely love my wife and she loves me. We are going to be grandparents in a few months and life is great. Love can found and if you do, please don't be afraid to compromise and make sacrifices as both have to make sure we provide a good life for our kids and us.

@dougkalagian

5 ай бұрын

That’s great! Thanks for sharing. Did you guys end up living in PR or the mainland?

@jungulbuny3159

5 ай бұрын

We live in the mainland but we visit the island every 2 years or so. We like to keep our kids close to family from the island and we enjoy the culture.

@dougkalagian

5 ай бұрын

@jungulbuny3159 awesome! I’m a gringo and my fiancé is boricua. When we have kids we’re thinking the same thing, to at least take them for a month out of the year if possible so they can identify with the culture

@jungulbuny3159

5 ай бұрын

@thenearhorizon Hope you have a long happy and exciting life together. Thank you for the kind words.

@dougkalagian

5 ай бұрын

@jungulbuny3159 igualmente! Gracias! 🙏🏻

Man, that last guy brought a tear to my eyes. The lines on a map dont matter, we are much bigger than that. Well said !!!

@dougkalagian

10 ай бұрын

💯 agree, I teared up while filming 🥲

We do intermarry A LOT and shamelessly. If you’re nice to us, you have a marriage for life. If you don’t, hide.

@dougkalagian

10 ай бұрын

@dianegron

Ай бұрын

@@andrew.kusuma It means we will actually have a genealogy, generations to live on. It means our culture will enrich the world and will be enriched by other’s. It means we will survive and thrive while others opted out. Basically , the world is ours.

@dougkalagian

Ай бұрын

@andrew.kusuma this response brought to you by ChatGPT 🤣

@dougkalagian

Ай бұрын

@@dianegron I hid him from the channel, which hides all his past and future comments. I 100% support healthly dialogue and conversation, which is why I make content - but he admitted to having chatgpt type out his multi-paragraph response which to me is spammy, and then he used profanity to insult me lol.

@dianegron

Ай бұрын

@@dougkalagian 😯 Thought it was you being weird. My apologies.

No bad experience with Americans never again I stay with my Hispanic born in the island 🏝️!

@user-ub8uc8gq7r

9 ай бұрын

You wouldn’t date us Hawaiians?

@ramonsantiago5766

26 күн бұрын

I feel the same way. The value system is different. In the Island we put family over everything. In the U.S and most other places, the object is to leave as soon as possible and the in laws are shunned and treated like crap. They act like they have to pick a side for everything. We have massive family get togethers flr everything. They do it once a year and call it a family reunion. There is no warmth or culture in the US it's a gender war, and life is work, home, work home, work, home u til you are old and grey. Hell no. Give me my Puerto Rican woman with nice nalgas who can cook, and we can take our family to the placita to party and enjoy the holidays instead of being stuck working on the holidays.

@ramonsantiago5766

14 күн бұрын

@@user-ub8uc8gq7r Sure. Same island warmth!;-)

No, no and no. Relationships are already difficult, stay within your own culture, beliefs, values, etc.. . .everyone can relate and be much happier.generally. I love my Puerto Rican culture, the people, the music, our identity our love for our land can only truly be shared and understood by and with another Puerto Rican. Que viva mi gente, mi cultura y mi tierra, PAN, TIERRA Y LIBERTAD!

@dougkalagian

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

I always dreamed of marrying a gringa but they always rejected me 😅

@dougkalagian

Ай бұрын

Bendito

Me personal as a taino to each of there own i wouldnt we are completely different and its unequally yoked i stay to my own

Gringo is a term that is used to describe American Citizens. Puerto Ricans are also American citizens.

@alejandroangel5908

8 ай бұрын

now its used against white americans

@hectormunoz7966

6 ай бұрын

Puerto Ricans with statutory citizenship. It's like telling a Sicilian that he's Italian. We represent Puerto Rico as it's own entity during world games, etc. blessings.

@coquireport

3 ай бұрын

@JahLives No! Gringo mean foreigner

@user-tl9sr9bs8h

3 ай бұрын

Jah is JAH mi vida I love Puerto Rico esse fantastico... nevermind I'm a crazy diamond

@user-tl9sr9bs8h

3 ай бұрын

Hehe

The girl at the 1:27 mark is beautiful.. wow

Very romantic

@dougkalagian

Жыл бұрын

Puerto Rico awaits thee

What do you mean when you say gringo? Is a white European or a person that speak English from the united States Regardless of color?

@dougkalagian

10 ай бұрын

Great question! We made a video on that very topic: kzread.info/dash/bejne/g6yVqqNskbSoo7w.html

@dianegron

Ай бұрын

@@731fault Gringo is a foreigner (usually English-speaking, but it could speak Greek, Russian, Chinese, etc.) that doesn’t speak Spanish or can’t be understood by Spanish speakers.

remember puerto ricans are american's too!

@dougkalagian

7 ай бұрын

The Complexity of Puerto Rico and U.S. Identity kzread.info/dash/bejne/a6SJt8eKk7e6oJM.html

Id rather just have them only to breed with each other so the race won't wipe out.

@dougkalagian

10 ай бұрын

So no marrying gringos?

@reneeracine2240

10 ай бұрын

@@dougkalagian probably not to be on safe side

@Billy-qv7dc

9 ай бұрын

​​@@reneeracine2240Are you ignorant or stupid?Or both?The overwhelming majority of Puerto Ricans are racially mixed.To various degrees.Nothing is worse than ignorance....Read....

@JahLives

8 ай бұрын

Puerto Rican isn't a race.

Take note in PR "gringo" is the same as "American" or "from the states" or the north. We like to put short names to everything to describe their origin. Do not associate this term with something bad.

@dougkalagian

6 ай бұрын

👏🏻💙🌟

Why is this a thing 😂 ppl are ppl

@dougkalagian

Ай бұрын

Haha I agree. My fiancé is Puerto Rican and I’m a gringo. Love is love 😁

What the hell is a gringo?

@dougkalagian

10 ай бұрын

Good question! We made a video on that topic. Puerto Ricans define the word gringo and then explain their feelings: kzread.info/dash/bejne/g6yVqqNskbSoo7w.html

@luketornblad4605

10 ай бұрын

To put it simply, it's a foreigner. But if you're from Mexico, specifically, due to some American units during the Mexican-American War (1836-46) wearing green uniforms, they were called Gringos

I would absolutely love to date a Puerto Rican my gooodness I would love them forever . 😮 seem like such down to earth nice warm people. I love how they all put the high perspective on love !! 💕 ❤❤❤❤ and not so much race !

@dougkalagian

2 ай бұрын

Yeah love is what matters in the end 😌

Can we show the worst example of P.R. women? wow!

@dougkalagian

10 ай бұрын

In what way?

Dating Americans? We ARE Americans

@marcotorres8779

Жыл бұрын

Are you from Puerto Rico? Or the USA

@TheBeautyofKarma

Жыл бұрын

@@marcotorres8779 I was born in Puerto Rico

@raulvazquez6594

Жыл бұрын

The United States is in America, the Caribbean is in America. We are all Americans.

@warriorshedge6772

11 ай бұрын

@@raulvazquez6594 then you know nothing about race and culture, to think an all mighty unbeatable people are equal to those they can influence with ease, will respect the notion of being called American.. As if its an open title, granted, only those who face hardship from foreigners, sill come to understand the importance of your own.

@raulvazquez6594

10 ай бұрын

@@warriorshedge6772 and you my man are on a trip. Thanks for the troll.

Puerto Ricans general ove white gringos. Black gringos, not so much.

Love is love...but stop mixing and diluting our culture😑😄 Gringos are "white Americans" I don't like to use the term... I was born & raised in U.S. So that makes me a Puerto Rican American not a Caucasian.

@dougkalagian

Жыл бұрын

Interesting! I thought Gringo referred to all Americans, not just whites?

@amgooder

Жыл бұрын

@@dougkalagian Not sure if you know ...but Gringo...actually means "green go" When White Americans would invade territories , natives did not speak English...so they saw soldiers dressed in their green military uniforms...and would yell at them🗣 green go!!!!➡️

@user-je8lm3bk3l

10 ай бұрын

You are Caucasian like the rest of us and probably more European than most white Americans. If your a white Puerto Rican your ancestors came from SPAIN which is Europe. Viva conquistadors !

@coralarroyo2329

5 ай бұрын

​@@dougkalagianpersonally I experienced racism so much from gringos so i definitely wouldn't but thats just my opinion

@dougkalagian

5 ай бұрын

@coralarroyo2329 can I ask what happened?