Donna's father actually asks a really good question. Her response should have been, "That depends on what movie he is in".
Lou Diamond Phillips is a multiracial cameleon. In La Bamba he was Mexican, in Young Guns he was native American, and he has also played Asians. He could very well also be an Italian, if the role called for it.
What other races has LDP played?
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Actually, Donna's father said it more like this: What is he, I-talian?
Obviously he could tell that Ritchie wasn't white(even though Italians are classified as white) and no matter how he tried to sugarcoat it, Donna realized at that moment that her father was racist.
I am sure Donna knew it from day one. Lou Diamond Phillips was a Filipino playing the part of a Mexican-American.
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Donna realized at that moment that her father was racist.
As an Italian-American myself I wondered if her father hoped he was Italian or thought Italians were just as bad as Mexicans.
"Don't "yeah,yeah" me, Lois."
He hoped he was Italian. We are white, but some of us are darker than other white people.
"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are." -Kurt Cobain
LDP is bascially of asian descent (mother's side) and has played a mexican-american in la bamba, stand & deliver and the young guns movies (altho that was supposedly a mix of mexican and native american). i think that about covers movies where "race" was indicated.
"He must've thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?"