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Name: Luis Orlando Gallardo Rivera
Race: Latino
Location: Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico
Occupation: Bureaucrat
Martial Status: Single
Area of study: Sociology
Political affiliation: A member of the Partido Popular Democratico of Puerto Rico (PPD) and a supporter of its autonomist and leftist wings. A former Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP) supporter and a self proclaimed melon.
I am a: Populist, nationalist, party pooper, social and cultural conservative, socialist, pluralist, autonomist, reformist, protectionist, traditionalist, and pan-American/Bolivarian.
I am not a: Communist, secessionist, liberal, economically egalitarian, modernist, utopian, xenophobic, cultural pluralist, chauvinist, individualist, totalitarian, corporatist, nor ethnocentric
Music: (with an example, just to make sure you guys get it straight) Old-school salsa (Ismael Rivera), afro-Peruvian music (Susana Baca), bebop (Dizzy Gillespie), live plena, bossa nova (Charlie Rouse), [real] hip-hop (Hieroglyphics), Latin jazz (Cal Tjader) and Latin soul (Joe Cuba.)
Likes any type of music with the following words in the title: Strut, groove, boogaloo
Hobbies: Reading, writing, hip-hop and electronic production, and public policy.
Marital status: In a Relationship.
Favorite movie to date: Payback with Mel Gibson, the remake of Dawn of the Dead, and Shaolin Soccer.
Favorite TV show: TV is evil.
Favorite comic books: Walking Dead and X-titles
Favorite comic book character: Magneto
Favorite food: Gramma's chicken soup with some tostones de pana.
Favorite magazines: WIRED and The Economist
Favorite books and authors: "Beyond Civilization" by Daniel Quinn, "Beyond Culture" by Edward T. Hall, and "On Revolution" by Hannah Arendt.
Figures I like: Salvador Allende, Luis Munoz Marin, Roberto Sanchez Vilella, Hugo Chavez, Malcom X (before Mecca,) Ludwig Von Mises, Rafael Cortijo, Ismael Rivera, Ricardo Alegria, KRS-ONE, Ralph Nader, and Patrick Buchanan.
People call me the following when they like me: open-minded, minimalist, confident, and intuitive.
People call me the following when they don't like me: stubborn, cheap, selfish, and judgmental.
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