One of the most extraordinary aspects of the film is the refreshingly ordinary way it presents Latino culture — there's no fanfare or explanation, it's just one more fact of these people’s lives.
“When your dad and I were growing up, I always felt like I would look at shows on TV and movies and I would never see anybody that looked like me,” I explained as preamble. “More like …”
“A bunch of jacked white dudes?” he asked, mainly because we were talking superheroes, but he may as well have said, “A bunch of white dudes named Jack.”“In some sense, it’s nice to see people that are like you, because then you feel like you’re acknowledged,” Nathan said. “Like people know that you’re a kind of person.”As a person of color, it is so very easy to be dehumanized by the dominant culture. So easy to be “othered.
When I was younger, there were times when I was embarrassed to be Mexican. The word itself — a simple descriptor of nationality — felt like a slur. I grew beyond that, but I don’t think you can ever grow out of it.back then, but I’m happy it exists now, for all the brown kids to see that our culture is part of the fabric of America. No more, but certainly not less.Published
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