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Philly’s Puerto Rican Day Parade embodies strength of the mainland’s second-largest Boricua community

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par Héctor M. Varela Rios, Assistant Professor of Theology, Villanova University

Picture this: Puerto Rican flags, referred to as “la monoestrellada” – the “one-starred” – everywhere you look. The smell of alcapurrias – if you can find them! – and other savory fritters wafting through the air. The rhythms of salsa or Bad Bunny’s trap reggaetón blasting out of speakers. Almost everybody speaking some version of “españinglés,” or Spanglish.

Philadelphia’s…

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