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I found this article could easily be related to today and how women are percieved or told how they should be percieved in the media. While I feel that many immigrant groups wanted to promote their culture, especially the Mexican Americans through language and traditions, the children of immigrant parents wanted to assimilate into American culture, and the leading way in California was through "the public fascination with Hollywood."(367). Today, things have still not changed infact I believe we as a society have become more fascinated with Hollywood and how it defines America, I cannot even count how many times I have heard the story about Sandra Bullock and her husband and very little on world affairs or even the healthcare bill. -Megan W. | I found this article could easily be related to today and how women are percieved or told how they should be percieved in the media. While I feel that many immigrant groups wanted to promote their culture, especially the Mexican Americans through language and traditions, the children of immigrant parents wanted to assimilate into American culture, and the leading way in California was through "the public fascination with Hollywood."(367). Today, things have still not changed infact I believe we as a society have become more fascinated with Hollywood and how it defines America, I cannot even count how many times I have heard the story about Sandra Bullock and her husband and very little on world affairs or even the healthcare bill. -Megan W. | ||
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| + | Being from Southern California, I can definately relate to this article and many of the points that are made here are definately still relevant today, many years later. Many still live in poverty and are often treated as second class citizens. There are tons of farming fields in the area, and you can generally only see mexicans out there picking. It's not that they choose this lifestyle, just that they are somehow relegated to do it. One interesting thing the article mentions is that there was no gradual immersion language program and it was just "sink or swim in an English-only environment" (365). I beleive this still holds true today, although it is somewhat better. I knew some who hardly spoke english and were just thrown into an english-speaking environment, and this incredibly difficult to adapt. Another interesting point is that being "Spanish" had a somewhat positive connotation whereas being "Mexican" was a negative connotation. They speak the same language yet being from Mexico somehow makes you worse than being from Spain. The thing that stands out to me the most is that people then and even now seem to have a pre-conceived notion that mexicans are inherently lower class than Americans, but they are people, just like we are. -afrisk | ||
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