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6. Monolog from "Selena" movie:
Tue Apr 9, 2019, 08:31 PM
Apr 2019

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Being a Mexican American is Exhausting
Gregory NAVA, writer/director, “Selena” 1997


"Our family has been here for centuries and yet they treat us as if we just swam across the Rio Grande. We have to know about John Wayne and Pedro Infante. We have to know about Frank Sinatra and Augustin Lara. We have to know about Oprah and Christina. Anglo Food is too bland and yet when we go to Mexico we get the runs. Now that to me is embarrassing. Japanese Americans, Italian Americans, German Americans, their homeland is on the other side of the ocean. Ours is right next door. And we have to prove to the Mexicans how Mexican we are and we have to prove to the Americans how American we are. We have to be more Mexican than the Mexicans and more American than the Americans. Both at the same time. It’s exhausting. Nobody knows how tough it is to be Mexican American."

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