This movie was extremely funny! It was made by HBO so it was meant to be somewhat educational, but also to be very interesting to watch. It talked about the contemporary lifestyle of Puerto Ricans and Cubans in American Idol.

It showed a young man who was from Puerto Rico and it talked about what he liked to be called. I never really realized the differences between, Mexican, Hispanic, and Chicano etc. I had always thought that they meant the same thing. This young man said he didn’t like to be called Hispanic because he said it sounded like he was ashamed of his true culture. It said that he liked to be called Chicano because he wasn’t ashamed of where he had come from.

Hispanics are the single largest Minority and growing. This is according to the 2000 census. They will soon no longer be a minority. So why are they still feeling ashamed? I think the basis for this movie was for Hispanics to not be ashamed of who they are. This was a calling for them all to embrace their true origins with pride. This is hard thing to do in this culture.

This young man was an Elvis impersonator and he was very funny. I thought it was great that the movie was so funny yet it had a very important message in it. They also had the first Mexican woman to be on a presidential cabinet on the movie. It was interesting to see how her pride in her culture varied from the young man who was an Elvis impersonator. Although they both had great pride in which they were they went about different ways of expressing it. The purpose of the movie was to show people that no matter how they chose to express it, it didn’t matter as long as they did express that pride in their culture.

I think this pride in your culture should be a universal theme, not just for Hispanics, but also for everyone. Everyone should have pride in where they came from, and nobody’s culture is better than anyone else’s. Some people think that they are better than others based solely on where they came from. But these stereotypes are not true. Just look at the woman who was on the presidential cabinet.