However, how can this appeal to and ideologically orient the perceptive viewer – whose social construction of reality and racial differences belong to the United States – dividing the Puerto Rican from the Anglo- Americans, poor and rich, West Side from East Side etc. These total oppositions produce a political discourse, ensuring that the "American dream" is not yet realized. With this situation, Puerto Ricans are confronted with the Anglo-American power as dominator and invader of their territory; the United States. West Side Story, is a story that illustrates a struggle for urban space, which has already been personalized by Anglo-Americans as an American way of life through cultural symbols and political meanings for social relationships, interactions and actions.** that the musical chosen represents the Puerto Rican migration to New York in the 1950s and what Anglo-Americans expect from immigrants who behave in ways that seem socially acceptable, trying to assimilate them into their own identity. This article will focus on Puerto Rican immigration, coming from the streets of the ghetto, which threatens to disarticulate their socio-political system, through