Tuesday Open Thread
Que pasa, USA?
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If you mean the old TV series on the funny Cuban family living in Miami, it's the best program ever to be created about a Cuban family.
Why do I say this? Because it was made by Cubans and performed by Cubans, so it didn't fall into the usual racist Hollywood pitfall where all Hispanic families speak with Mexican accents and live down-and-out lives of perpetual victimhood in the ghetto.
If this had not been produced by Cubans, none of the performers on the program would have been Cuban [to most Hollywood casting agents Cuban performers look too Europeans to be cast as Cubans, unless they are sprayed with brown paint], Joe would have been a gangbanger, Carmencita would have been pregnant, the father would have been unemployed, and the mother would have been the victim of spousal abuse.
God knows what the grandparents would have been portrayed as!
I wish I could get a copy of the series.
Spygirl, they sell the entire series each year at Cuba Nostalgia.