" The rousing dance wide variety can a searing discussion between Anita along with her boyfriend Bernardo during the costs and benefits of migration for the United States mainland.

But some from the words sung by Anita coated Puerto Rico in an adverse light, both in the 1957 music ("island of exotic diseases") as well as the 1961 film ("let they sink back in the water").

Indeed there, a teacher of theatre record and operating pointed out the song's challenging lyrics as she questioned how Spielberg and Kushner planned to signify Puerto Ricans into the film.