Complex sentence: They lived near each other and the Puerto Ricans felt disrespected when the Japanese walked around naked or almost naked for their baths and sometimes a Puerto Rican cut a Japanese with a machete to "teach" him respect.
Split into simpler sentences: They lived near one another and the Puerto Ricans felt disrespected when the Japanese walked around naked or almost naked for their baths. Sometimes a Puerto Rican cut a Japanese with a machete to "teach" him respect.