Puerto Rican call themselves Puerto Ricans because (1) they're not yet a state, and (2) the term defines both a region and an ethnicity. There's little similar

Puerto Rican call themselves Puerto Ricans because (1) they're not yet a state, and (2) the term defines both a region and an ethnicity. There's little similarity between their relation to the U.S. and HK or Taiwan's relation to China, especially since the U.S. and its territories are all democracies.