The "Yal" thing

There is a new tendency of women, and also in men, in being Yal. This is the name that the puertorican society have attribute to those persons that have a really pour sense of education, regardless if they are or not. These peoples act like if they were vulgar persons, like if they do not have education. Most of the time, if you are walking through a street from Puerto Rico, pretty sure you are going to find a Yal. And this is because Yals are everywhere: wherever the government brings money aids or helps, these people will be there. Sometimes they are quiet violent, but most time they are not; it depends on the situation. But don’t worry, if you make friendship with them, you will have no problem. But make sure it is friendship.

Yals are not always people associated with bad conduct; they are also really nice. When they do not try to abuse from the government aids, we can get notice of a less dependent conduct. I’m not saying that they are independent, but they are paying more attention to other stuff, but not money. Here we can say, Yals are less interested, and because of that, more nice. But this do not always have to be completely true: there could be other factors to be considered. The point is, why always the society attribute this behavior or tag to women? Are women the only ones in being Yals? The answer is, obviously, not.

The origin of the word is from the reggaeton music, where the artists called Yals to all those women that do what they (reggaeton artist) want, especially in the sexual ambit. Yal is a country word, created by puertorican to call specifically woman, which I think is a kind of sexism because men also act in that way. But for men, the word is Caco, and its characteristic more important is the listening of reggaeton music.