No Cubans?

So, she's essentially Puerto Rican then. Not surprised, her total vibe/look is Puerto Rican. Compare her to Ana Margarita Casado in the WPBT produced bilingual series, "Que Pasa, USA?" Ms. Casado, a Cuban American actress, played Juana the mother in the Peña family, a Cuban American household.

So, she's essentially Puerto Rican then. Not surprised, her total vibe/look is Puerto Rican. Compare her to Ana Margarita Casado in the WPBT produced bilingual series, "Que Pasa, USA?" Ms. Casado played Juana the mother in the Peña family, a Cuban American household. She looked and acted Cuban 100%.

It's clear that you've swallowed the entire pitcher of kool-aid. What can we expect of someone with a degree in Latin American studies? I'm, also, the product of American Universities, those sanctuaries of political correctness and revisionist history, so I know. For instance, your smug and incorrect comment [below] proves that:

"By the way NO ONE would ever say "mulatto" outside of a historical context in scholarly circles or among people well-versed in Latin American Affairs. That is actually racist and I've never met a person of mixed heritage who has self-identified as a mulatto, given that it was a term used by the oppressors. You might want to brush up on that."

For your information, "mulatto" is used by those people that your pretend to know about, YES, Cubans. In Cuba you are either "white," "black" or "mulatto." Yes, 'mulatto!" It is used not only on a daily basis, but also in scholarly circles. By the way, its interesting that you say that you have never met anyone who self-identifies as "mulatto," but in an earlier post you said that you have met many, many Cubans who look just like Justina. You do know that in Cuban circles Justina would be a mulatta, right? And, yes, Cuban women like Justina would identify as a "mulatta." Hmmm, but you didn't know that, despite having so many Justina looking Cuban friends? You have totally given yourself away.


Also, when you start talking about "oppressors" and casting actual "Latinos" as opposed to Italians/Spaniards, you reveal your confused PC brainwashing. For one thing, the word "Latino" is actually anthropologically incorrect. The original "Latinos" are the Italians. Look that up. Spaniards are "Latinos" by virtue of Italy and Latin Americans are "Latinos" by virture of Spain. Chicanos out west coined the racialized and incorrect use of the word "Latino" to only mean Latin American, so that to them a full blooded mesoamerican from Central or South America with no connection to Spain is more Latino than a Spaniard! An absurd notion! That's like me saying that an African descendant Jamaican is an Anglo Saxon, but not a English man.

So, you are happy that a "Latina" is portraying another "Latina" character instead of Italians/Spaniards? Again, you prove how little you know about Cubans. For one thing, the Cubans who came in the 1960's and 70's were the children and grandchildren of Spaniards. The Rita Moreno character who self-identifies as a "Peter Pan" child would have been the daughter or granddaughter of Asturian or Galician immigrants to Cuba, so that casting a Spaniard in the role would have acutally been more acturate. Let's agains analyse you comment about using actual "Latinos" to portray "Latinos" rather than Spaniards/Italians. So then in your mind, even though many Argentines are of Italian ancestry, it would be incorrect to hire an Italian actor to portray an Argentine and preferrable to hire, a let's say, chicano? For instance, you think that a George Lopez [all other factors considered equal] would by virtue of his background be better suited to play an Argentine than an Italian like Joe Pesci because the latter is Italian?

Did you ever watch "Que Pasa, USA?" It's a series about a Cuban family living in Miami and the grandmother Velia Martinez is actually not really Cuban, because she was born in Tampa and was the daughter of Spaniards, but she played the grandmother, Adela, to perfection. She would have actually been more actuate than Rita Moreno in that role. Did you know that many Cuban households from the 60s and 70s made up of three generations actually had three different nationalities under one roof? The Spanish born grandmother, the Cuban born children and the American born grandchildren.

I suggest that you continue to live in your PC bubble, or better yet, clear some of that PC fog that surrounds your head and stop pretending that you know about Cubans, it is clear that you know nothing about them.