Sentence examples for rican ancestry from inspiring English sources

Miranda, the show's creator, is of Puerto Rican ancestry.

"Bon dance isn't only if you're Buddhist," said Kalena Soltren, a senior at the University of Hawaii who is of Puerto Rican ancestry.

The next two largest groups are the 3.4 million Americans of Puerto Rican ancestry and the 1.2 million of Cuban ancestry.

Mr. Santorum isn't very likely to win Puerto Rico's primary on Sunday — not when Mr. Romney has the endorsement of Gov. Luis G. Fortuño; he also performed much better than Mr. Santorum among Hispanics with Puerto Rican ancestry in Florida.

But then the Spanish slips in, usually in a strong emotional context, and the references to Puerto Rican ancestry and tradition.

Many of the people who live in East Harlem are called Nuyoricans, a term to describe New Yorkers who are second- and third-generation descendants of Puerto Rican ancestry.

Similarly, Hispanic individuals of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent tend to have predominant Caucasian and African ancestry and minor amounts of Native American ancestry [15].

(Mr. Colón is of Puerto Rican descent).

AB is of nonconsanguineous Peruvian and Puerto Rican descent.

In a recent study among Puerto Ricans, African ancestry was negatively associated with type-2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease and positively correlated with hypertension [59].

The principal Hispanic groups in the city were those of Mexican (7.4%), Salvadoran (2.0%), Nicaraguan (0.9%), Guatemalan (0.8%), and Puerto Rican (0.5%), ancestry.