Saturday, May 31, 2008

A DAY WITHOUT A MEXICAN

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This is one of my favorites movies. The productions is hollywoodian, very simple indeed, but delivers its message. It has all together: comedy, drama, reality and make you think (I hope), with all this debate about immigration, on how is easy to stereotype people. I know what I am talking about: as an immigrant myself I am often approached by people trying to speak to me in spanish just because of my feature and skin color; although I'm brazilian and my language is portuguese... And you know what? they get mad at me when I say "I'm sorry, I don't speak spanish"... (which is not true but I see no point to speak another language that is not my own neither of the country that I live in, when there is no need to do so).

My favorite line is "there are the mexicans from Guatemala, the mexicans from El Salvador, and the "regular" mexicans (from Mexico, of course - my comment). Maybe those people think I am a mexican from Brazil.


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