Comment: I just saw Spanglish on the flight (I remember you had reviewed it).
Rarely has a film made me so upset; essentially it’s a bunch of hyper-assimilated Jews trying to tell Latinos not to make the same “mistake.”
Wasp culture maybe dry sans alcool but the movie was bloody ridiculously.
She made her daughter reject the Private School Scholarship so that they wouldn’t diverge. WTF did they move to the US then; is the height of aspiration staying in the Barrio?
Glad to see that our pan-Asian community in the Diaspora are diverging from this mad consensus (staying in the Barrio/ghetto is redemptive) and are following Jews of yesteryear in escaping from the Shtetls.
By the by I’m not suggesting that our Ethnic culture has no redemptive value, in fact I’m a big believer in blending East & West, but when in Rome.. Don’t stand apart simply for the sake of resistance or pride!
