A little sarcasm...
Feeling a little sardonic today, sort of wondering where all those Latino activists are...
Straight from Mexico!!!! Quote:
But what do we hear? Crickets. No calls for a boycott on Aeromexico or the ad agency responsible, no boycotts of media outlets which run Aeromexico advertizements, no marching on businesses anywhere in wonderful Mexico, the same Mexico which drove out their parents and sucked up their remittances. However, the AP reporter who wrote the story could have casted perfectly for a part, and maybe have made a lot more money than she has on the news piece. Adriana Gomez looks like she could have just stepped off the plane into Mexico for the very first time from Spain. Here's a picture of Gomez Licon from her Linked In web page: http://www.linkedin.com/in/agomezlicon Maybe Brooklyn-born, Bronx-raised Evelyn Lozada would have been light skinned enough for the commercial, and she's certainly got the looks which would make a Mexican man of any race, wealth, or perceived class do a triple take: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...icle-1.1093604 However, even if she does speak any form of Spanish, it probably won't be the right kind of "Spanish" for the commercial - which is language discrimination because there won't be a translator on the set for either English or a wide variety of Spanglish, not even script materials in her own language. For God's sake, there's something like ten dialects of Mexican Spanish with all different sorts of slang, profanity, and language usage in Mexico alone - what's good in one place might get your ass kicked over in the next valley. Then there's Cuban, Puerto Rican, and a whole other continent of "other" Spanish. But, maybe they could use captioning in "proper" Mexican Spanish and sidestep the whole problem. Maybe they should get their casting from this highbrow source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ltAOtnb1Bs Put it on full screen and watch the whole Three minutes and thirty six seconds. |
It's not hard to find a double standard these days, just hard for people to acknowledge it.
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