Jennifer Lopez said it bluntly: to be a New Yorker, you have to have been born in New York. 🗽 According to the singer, not even living in the city for decades is enough: to her, a true New Yorker has to have been born in one of its five boroughs.
The opinion quickly sparked debate. While some argue that being a New Yorker is tied to where you were born, others believe that years spent living, working, and building a life in the city should also be enough to feel like part of it.
JLo was born in the Bronx and is the daughter of Puerto Rican parents, which raises another question: if we applied her same logic, would you have to be born in Puerto Rico to be Puerto Rican? 🇵🇷🤔