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Wikipedia: Puerto Ricans in the United States (or "Puerto Rican Diaspora," "Nuyorican", "stateside or mainland Puerto Ricans" or, Puerto Rican American are Americans of Puerto Rican origin, including those who migrated to the United States mainland from the island. They form the second largest Hispanics group in the United States,. Most Puerto Ricans descend from a combination of Europeans, especially Spaniards, the indigenous Taino peoples, now extinct since the 1500s and a minority Africans, and with a small number of Asians, mostly Chinese.
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