{"id":80642,"date":"2015-11-28T18:46:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T02:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=80642"},"modified":"2015-11-28T18:46:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T02:46:09","slug":"spanglish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=80642","title":{"rendered":"Spanglish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/the-crisis-on-campus\/\">Comment<\/a>: I just saw Spanglish on the flight (I remember you had reviewed it).<\/p>\n<p>Rarely has a film made me so upset; essentially it\u2019s a bunch of hyper-assimilated Jews trying to tell Latinos not to make the same \u201cmistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wasp culture maybe dry sans alcool but the movie was bloody ridiculously.<\/p>\n<p>She made her daughter reject the Private School Scholarship so that they wouldn\u2019t diverge. WTF did they move to the US then; is the height of aspiration staying in the Barrio?<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>By the by I\u2019m not suggesting that our Ethnic culture has no redemptive value, in fact I\u2019m a big believer in blending East &#038; West, but when in Rome.. Don\u2019t stand apart simply for the sake of resistance or pride!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment: I just saw Spanglish on the flight (I remember you had reviewed it). Rarely has a film made me so upset; essentially it\u2019s a bunch of hyper-assimilated Jews trying to tell Latinos not to make the same \u201cmistake.\u201d Wasp &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=80642\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29580],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latino"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80643,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80642\/revisions\/80643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}