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...racial background. I would say that I was from Guatemala, and the person would tag me as Hispanic, even going so far to imagine a fictitious accent I don’t have. I took it as a compliment—better than being called a “gringo,” as I am in Guatemala...
...talk about "taking Chavez out" with "covert operatives," as Robertson suggested, just confers more Che Guevara cachet on the former army lieutenant colonel (who himself led a failed coup in 1992). And since Chavez has threatened to cut off oil exports to the U.S. at the first sign of gringo aggression, it makes America's important Venezuelan oil supply look all the more volatile...
...Cuban Americans and Argentine Americans may all speak the same language, but many wouldn't dream of standing under the same cultural umbrella. A fair number of U.S.-born Hispanics don't speak Spanish, and many others have little or no European blood. Indeed, the category Hispanic is a gringo construct-first used by the U.S. Census Bureau in 1980-and the only one based on culture and language instead of race. That dubious distinction frustrates some Hispanics, who believe they belong to a separate race, the product of an epic Latin American miscegenation of Iberian, Native American and African...
Lest we find Beck’s frequent nods to past projects too self-indulgent, he occasionally winks at the very gimmicks that first brought him fame. The over-the-top Gringo Spanglish of “Qué Onda Guero” (about as authentically Latino as Speedy Gonzalez or Taco Bell), hyperbolizes his perhaps most recognizable hit, 1993’s “Loser” with its relentless chorus of “soy un perdedor...
...stories themselves vary wildly in terms of quality. While some are heartfelt and insightful, others come across as poorly conceived and unduly stereotypical. Jean’s (Sandra Bullock) maid, for instance, speaks English but lapses into Spanish for basic words the gringo audience will be able to understand: words like “sí” and “señora”. This particular subplot’s conclusion has lily-white Jean learn to appreciate her helpful Mexican servant with an insipid, cringe-worthy character reversal that basically materializes...