As a peruvian, living in Peru, I feel closer to Anya. When you listen to her you feel something familiar, I feel like we could speak about common experiences and share similar cultural codes, that's completely different to Jenna. Beeing Latino is not only sharing a language but cultural codes as well. Being Latino is not racial at all, you could be white as a Sweden or black as a subsaharian african and be equally Latin.
Totalmente cierto hermano, no se trata simplemente de si hablas o no el idioma, sino ciertas reglas culturales. Cualquier latino escucha un fragmento de esa parte en la que ella dice sentirse "desconectada" y se da cuenta que es efectivamente lo que Brett dice, simplemente lo hace para ser woke y ser aceptada socialmente, le importa 3 pepinos realmente representar a los latinos y esta perfecto, nadie esta obligado a representar a nadie mas que a si mismo, y es alguien que se gano todo por su cuenta, no le debe nada al pueblo latino, pero vergas, no mientas tan descaradamente en nombre de otras personas.
I’m Peruvian too and I been living in New York since I was 11. Im 30 now and I don’t give a 💩 who’s playing who. There’s too much stereotyping in Hollywood films that it’s expected.
@@oscarolvera9069 Exactly, there are over 60 millions latinos in the US and those who are born here/come very young go through a different experience. When they back to their home country they are made fun because their Spanish isn't perfect and here they are asked "where are you from?" implying that they are not from here. Uno crece como ese sentir que no es de aqui ni de alla and at the end it branches out into a different latino experience igual que un Mexicano en Mexico or un Argentino en Argentina, un Dominicano en Republica Dominicana. US latinos create their own identity as well.
The thing I LOVE about Anya (as an Argentinian myself) is that she doesn't FORCE IT. She seems a lot more relaxed and authentic. I feel like in the US the "conversation" is just telling them what they want to hear about what latin American people look like or do. So that's why they are more prone to claim that Jenna is a "latina" without even questioning it. I've had my "argentinianness" questioned while traveling in Miami because I'm too white and speak English too well, which just tells you there are heavy preconceived notions of what a latina looks like.
Definitely!!! I live in the Dominican Republic and even in this one country alone you’ve got every single shade of skin colour, hair colour, hair type, stature, eyes, etc. there is no set way that Latinos look! And all the Argentinian people I’ve met have been just as white as me haha.
It's probably because Ortega's been told to go around everywhere to the press representing Hollywood's feeble attempts at diversity whilst Taylor-Joy's probably been told to keep her mouth shut cause Ortega looks more Latina than Taylor-Joy. Looks are all that Hollywood needs to fulfill its diversity quota after all, people's original culture and heritage be damned.
Can uneducated countries please learn REAL Latin history! Speaking the Spanish language does not magically make some one “Latino”. Just like speaking English does Not magically make people Anglo saxons despite of one’s actual cultural origin. 🙄THE CULTURA LATINA, THE LATIN PEOPLE, THE LATINO (Latini) TRIBES, THE LATIN ETHNICITY ALL COME FROM ITALY! LATINO IS THE SOLE IDENTITY OF SOUTHERN EUROPEAN LATIN MEDITERRANEAN DIASPORA. Latin europe was Latinized by ROME ITALY hence how Latina italy got the name Latina. & HISPANIC (Hispania) is literally the Latin language MEANING SPAIN NOT the NATIVE AMERICANS they Colonized. Latin America got its name SOLELY and ONLY to mean the part of the Americas CONQUERED by LATIN EUROPE and that is all it will EVER MEAN. Latin ORIGIN, HISTORY& people are NON INTERCHANGEABLE. STOP THE CULTURAL THEFT OF MY PEOPLE& OUR ANCESTRY. BRAINWASHED AMERICAN/ MOSTLY NORTH AMERICAN CULTURAL APPROPRIATION & CULTURAL THEFT FOR "PROFIT AND GAIN" WILL NEVER BE LATINO. CULTURAL APPROPRIATION EXIST BECAUSE THOSE LIKE YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE AND WILL CONTINUE TO BENEFIT FROM THE CULTURAL THEFT TOWARDS US TRUE LATIN PEOPLE AND OUR HISTORICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS! AND US TRUE LATINS ARE & HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MULTI GENETICALLY MIXED ETHNIC PEOPLE DUE TO OUR GENETIC CONTRIBUTORS FROM OUR MIDDLE EASTERN (ASIAN), NORTHERN AFRICAN, AND BALKAN DNA. THERE ARE NO "WHITE" LATINS. JUST MORE ASSIMILATION . SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICANS AND MEXICANS ARE NATIVE AMERICANS, MESTIZOS, CASTIZOS, PARDOS, ZAMBOS, AND PURE SUB SAHARAN AFRICANS. NOT LATINS, NOT LATIN BLOOD, THEREFORE NOT LATINO. IN SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICA AND MÉXICO THE ONLY PEOPLE CALLED LATINO AND HISPANIC ARE US SOUTHERN EUROPEANS OF LATIN MEDITERRANEAN ORIGIN. OBVIOUSLY THE SAME IN LATIN EUROPE. PUSHING AND CONTRIBUTING TO BRAINWASHED NORTH AMERICAN MISAPPROPRIATION OF FOREIGN TERMS SUCH AS LATIN/LATINO AS TRENDING PROPAGANDA FOR SOCIAL STATUS TO APPEAR MORE DESIRABLE DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE CONTINUING CONTRIBUTIONS OF CULTURAL THEFT. THE TERM LATINO DERIVES FROM THE TERM LATINI, THE LATINI WHERE THE VERY FIRST LATIN TRIBE TO EXIST FROM ITALY! LATINI IS PLURAL MEANING MORE THAN ONE LATINO! AND LATINO IS SINGULAR FOR LATINI MEANING ONE LATINO. THE SAME WITH LATINA AND LATINE. ALL TERMS CREATED BY THE TRUE LATIN PEOPLE OF ITALY. THE AMERICAN MUTILATION AND CULTURAL RAPE OF LATIN EUROPEAN TERMS NEEDS TO BE EXPOSED.
@@maitherolfsenlisa5593 WRONG! REAL ETHNICALLY LATINO MEN AND WOMEN ARE US RACIALLY MEDITERRANEAN PEOPLE OF PROMINENT LATIN EUROPEAN ORIGINS! AND WE LOOK LIKE TYPICAL MEDITERRANEAN PEOPLE! BRAINWASHED, CULTURALLY ASHAMED AMERICANS HAVE MISAPPROPRIATED OUR LATIN EUROPEAN TERMS AS TRENDING PROPAGANDA TO APPEAR MORE DESIRABLE FOR SOCIAL! YOU ARE NOT LATINO PEOPLE AS YOU ARE NOT PEOPLE OF REAL AND ACTUAL LATIN ORIGIN! Can uneducated countries please learn REAL Latin history! Speaking the Spanish language does not magically make some one “Latino”. Just like speaking English does Not magically make people Anglo saxons despite of one’s actual cultural origin. 🙄THE CULTURA LATINA, THE LATIN PEOPLE, THE LATINO (Latini) TRIBES, THE LATIN ETHNICITY ALL COME FROM ITALY! LATINO IS THE SOLE IDENTITY OF SOUTHERN EUROPEAN LATIN MEDITERRANEAN DIASPORA. Latin europe was Latinized by ROME ITALY hence how Latina italy got the name Latina. & HISPANIC (Hispania) is literally the Latin language MEANING SPAIN NOT the NATIVE AMERICANS they Colonized. Latin America got its name SOLELY and ONLY to mean the part of the Americas CONQUERED by LATIN EUROPE and that is all it will EVER MEAN. Latin ORIGIN, HISTORY& people are NON INTERCHANGEABLE. STOP THE CULTURAL THEFT OF MY PEOPLE& OUR ANCESTRY. BRAINWASHED AMERICAN/ MOSTLY NORTH AMERICAN CULTURAL APPROPRIATION & CULTURAL THEFT FOR "PROFIT AND GAIN" WILL NEVER BE LATINO. CULTURAL APPROPRIATION EXIST BECAUSE THOSE LIKE YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE AND WILL CONTINUE TO BENEFIT FROM THE CULTURAL THEFT TOWARDS US TRUE LATIN PEOPLE AND OUR HISTORICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS! AND US TRUE LATINS ARE & HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MULTI GENETICALLY MIXED ETHNIC PEOPLE DUE TO OUR GENETIC CONTRIBUTORS FROM OUR MIDDLE EASTERN (ASIAN), NORTHERN AFRICAN, AND BALKAN DNA. THERE ARE NO "WHITE" LATINS. JUST MORE ASSIMILATION . SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICANS AND MEXICANS ARE NATIVE AMERICANS, MESTIZOS, CASTIZOS, PARDOS, ZAMBOS, AND PURE SUB SAHARAN AFRICANS. NOT LATINS, NOT LATIN BLOOD, THEREFORE NOT LATINO. IN SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICA AND MÉXICO THE ONLY PEOPLE CALLED LATINO AND HISPANIC ARE US SOUTHERN EUROPEANS OF LATIN MEDITERRANEAN ORIGIN. OBVIOUSLY THE SAME IN LATIN EUROPE. PUSHING AND CONTRIBUTING TO BRAINWASHED NORTH AMERICAN MISAPPROPRIATION OF FOREIGN TERMS SUCH AS LATIN/LATINO AS TRENDING PROPAGANDA FOR SOCIAL STATUS TO APPEAR MORE DESIRABLE DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE CONTINUING CONTRIBUTIONS OF CULTURAL THEFT. THE TERM LATINO DERIVES FROM THE TERM LATINI, THE LATINI WHERE THE VERY FIRST LATIN TRIBE TO EXIST FROM ITALY! LATINI IS PLURAL MEANING MORE THAN ONE LATINO! AND LATINO IS SINGULAR FOR LATINI MEANING ONE LATINO. THE SAME WITH LATINA AND LATINE. ALL TERMS CREATED BY THE TRUE LATIN PEOPLE OF ITALY. THE AMERICAN MUTILATION AND CULTURAL RAPE OF LATIN EUROPEAN TERMS NEEDS TO BE EXPOSED.
I don't know if it's just me but, as a latino (brazilian), watching american content on UA-cam and listening to phrases like "i'm to white for that" or "she seems pretty white" makes me thing that people in the US believe that you can't be white and latino at the same time haha. Nothing against Brett, i really like her content, it just got me thing about you guys perspective on this.
I am Chilean, white as a snowflake and I also agree with your statement. But, I think when she says white, she's referring to her saxon herritage maybe? Don't really know that...
i agree it kind of annoys me when i hear it, it just sounds very ignorant, we aren’t one race but i know people use it to typically mean an american wasp
The "I'm too white" comments every time someone tries to speak spanish (mostly, sometimes also about br-pt) is so freaking annoying as a Portuguese person. There's an entire country of european white people that speaks perfect spanish!
@@FranciscoJavier246 Tbh when I think of people in the Southern parts of Latin America (e.g. Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, etc.), I think white. The problem is most Americans think of Mexico when they think of Latinos, and I've heard from Mexicans themselves that they view white Mexicans differently.
People often forget (especially Americans) that being Latino is a CULTURE, not a race. There's TONS of different features, looks, skin colors and so on in Latin-American.
Being latino isn't a culture either though, an Argentine and a Mexican person have extremely different cultures. It's just a geopolitical term that's been given too much importance in the US
estas muy equivocado, la deficion seria hispano en todo caso, latino es una definicion que el imperio frances utilizo para empatizar con los mexicanos, no es una cultura porque yo ni como tacos como mexicano ni bebo te de mate como los argentinos, ni se nada de samba o musica brasileña, no tiene nada que ver un mexicano de jalisco con un argentino de tierra del fuego o chileno de Santiago.
Sorry but logically that is just spreading misinformation. It’s just not logical or correct scientifically but okay. Seems some people are basing their opinions on how they feel and not so much on science or DNA.
@@ccroft Mexicans are Hispanic not Latino but culture's are similar because of the Spanish lineage and the castellan Spanish language connect's everyone including Filipinos.
I’m mexican, I don’t just happen to feel represented by Jenna nor Anya nor do I freaking need to. We can connect and empathize with others regardless of gender, ethnicity, skin color etc. like we’ve been doing that forever until wokness started to make it such a big issue.
Can uneducated countries please learn REAL Latin history! Speaking the Spanish language does not magically make some one “Latino”. Just like speaking English does Not magically make people Anglo saxons despite of one’s actual cultural origin. 🙄THE CULTURA LATINA, THE LATIN PEOPLE, THE LATINO (Latini) TRIBES, THE LATIN ETHNICITY ALL COME FROM ITALY! LATINO IS THE SOLE IDENTITY OF SOUTHERN EUROPEAN LATIN MEDITERRANEAN DIASPORA. Latin europe was Latinized by ROME ITALY hence how Latina italy got the name Latina. & HISPANIC (Hispania) is literally the Latin language MEANING SPAIN NOT the NATIVE AMERICANS they Colonized. Latin America got its name SOLELY and ONLY to mean the part of the Americas CONQUERED by LATIN EUROPE and that is all it will EVER MEAN. Latin ORIGIN, HISTORY& people are NON INTERCHANGEABLE. STOP THE CULTURAL THEFT OF MY PEOPLE& OUR ANCESTRY. BRAINWASHED AMERICAN/ MOSTLY NORTH AMERICAN CULTURAL APPROPRIATION & CULTURAL THEFT FOR "PROFIT AND GAIN" WILL NEVER BE LATINO. CULTURAL APPROPRIATION EXIST BECAUSE THOSE LIKE YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE AND WILL CONTINUE TO BENEFIT FROM THE CULTURAL THEFT TOWARDS US TRUE LATIN PEOPLE AND OUR HISTORICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS! AND US TRUE LATINS ARE & HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MULTI GENETICALLY MIXED ETHNIC PEOPLE DUE TO OUR GENETIC CONTRIBUTORS FROM OUR MIDDLE EASTERN (ASIAN), NORTHERN AFRICAN, AND BALKAN GYPSIE DNA. THERE ARE NO "WHITE" LATINS. JUST MORE ASSIMILATION . SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICANS AND MEXICANS ARE NATIVE AMERICANS, MESTIZOS, CASTIZOS, PARDOS, ZAMBOS, AND PURE SUB SAHARAN AFRICANS. NOT LATINS, NOT LATIN BLOOD, THEREFORE NOT LATINO. IN SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICA AND MÉXICO THE ONLY PEOPLE CALLED LATINO AND HISPANIC ARE US SOUTHERN EUROPEANS OF LATIN MEDITERRANEAN ORIGIN. OBVIOUSLY THE SAME IN LATIN EUROPE. PUSHING AND CONTRIBUTING TO BRAINWASHED NORTH AMERICAN MISAPPROPRIATION OF FOREIGN TERMS SUCH AS LATIN/LATINO AS TRENDING PROPAGANDA FOR SOCIAL STATUS TO APPEAR MORE DESIRABLE DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE CONTINUING CONTRIBUTIONS OF CULTURAL THEFT. THE TERM LATINO DERIVES FROM THE TERM LATINI, THE LATINI WHERE THE VERY FIRST LATIN TRIBE TO EXIST FROM ITALY! LATINI IS PLURAL MEANING MORE THAN ONE LATINO! AND LATINO IS SINGULAR FOR LATINI MEANING ONE LATINO. THE SAME WITH LATINA AND LATINE. ALL TERMS CREATED BY THE TRUE LATIN PEOPLE OF ITALY. THE AMERICAN MUTILATION AND CULTURAL RAPE OF LATIN EUROPEAN TERMS NEEDS TO BE EXPOSED.
Personally i do feel represented by jenna 😂 ive never seen a celebrity like her aka a latina that isn’t presented as the stereotypical voluptuous hot latina. She is just chill
There is a difference between ethnicity and culture. She shouldn’t feel ashamed for not being fully aware of culture but if you pretend to be aware and you’re not then you look foolish.
No, it's not that Anya Taylor-Joy just speaks Spanish. She does it exceptionally well, to the point you can't believe she's also fluent in English, because Spanish sounds like her native language. I'm from Argentina, and I'm telling you: people who aren't native Spanish speakers, sadly, will never appreciate how good her Spanish is. On top of that, she has a perfect Argentine accent, which is kinda mind blowing.
I am brazilian and have been to Argentina a couple times and her spanish is so good. I know sometimes (very rare) she says something wrong or in the wrong way, but even my brother who moved to France does that now when speaking in portuguese. This is common to happen to those who move to another country even if they were used to speak their mother language for years.
@@sodapopjam I said I can't believe she's also fluent in English. Being able to speak two languages is normal, but being fluent in two of them, while keeping your accent for both, is not. I said her accent is mind blowing because she has an exceptionally good one. Ana De Armas also speaks Spanish and grew up speaking that language, but she lost her accent because she was speaking English for a long time, and you can hear how it's getting worst and worst as time goes by. This is something that, as an English speaker, is pretty hard to tell, the same way we, Spanish speakers, have a harder time noticing the differences between different English accents. Anya, currently, makes mistakes, but she didn't lose her accent. As someone pointed out in another answer, her mistakes are normal, and you see those often when someone gets used to another language because he/she was living in another country for a long time. You seem to believe that growing up in another country and then moving to USA = keeping your perfect native language accent for the rest of your life, or that you'll never forget words after not using them for over a year. That's not the case. The comment should be easy to understand if you have a semi-functional brain. She has a good accent, and her Spanish is really good, but English speakers can't tell exactly how good it is, both for someone who grew up speaking the language, and in comparison to others who also did.
The whole "Latino" thing is an American cultural construction that has nothing to do with "LatinAmericans" but rather to the idea Americans have from second or third generation immigrants to the USA. Latin Americans come in all colors. Anya is just a regular Argentinian, ethnically. Maradona is also a regular Argentinian, ethnically. There is no such thing as "looking latino" And the whole latino representation, sounds quite stupid to us.
True story. I didn’t want to learn Spanish when I was a kid. I would always speak to my mom and mom was fine with it but she also wanted me to speak Spanish around her and my dad so I would learn and use it more so I can be more proficient in it. I refused to do so and she hated that. So one day I arrive to the kitchen to ask what’s for dinner. She didn’t answer me. I kept asking and asking no one would answer me( my dad was also not responding). She kept ignoring me until I asked her again but Spanish. She pointed to the chair in the kitchen and said “sit down”. She said in Spanish “ I don’t mind you speaking English because we live here in the U.S., but when you’re here at home, you will learn and speak Spanish. You’re Latino and you need to know your parent’s language.” It was one of the best life lessons I ever have.
It requires a huge effort from parents to do this (especially if the parents are bilingual), but it’s the only way a kid is going to be able to become fluent in Spanish while attending an English-speaking school.
Props to your mother for doing that! 👏 That’s how it should be! I don’t think it’s only Jenna Ortega’s fault that she’s doesn’t speak spanish, her parents are to blame as well… I’m sure both speak spanish… Unfortunately it happens quite a lot worldwide with people who live in a different country than their background.
My Mom claimed was my fault that I didn't learn Spanish. She says I said "I don't want to learn that Greek Spanish." I pointed out that by the time I was saying such phrases that was already way past the point of teaching us. Need to teach as young babies thru language development. -- When older I was trying to learn & she would correct every teeny tiny mistake & treat me like I was mentally defective for being so stupid. Sigh! -- So here I am in my 60s still trying to learn Spanish well enough to feel comfortable to hold conversations. I know quite a bit, but terrified to make mistakes. My Mom's passed away many years now. -- So many of my cousins speak Spanish fluently. Oh well! Not sure why my Mom didn't want to teach us. My Dad had learned working for 12 years in South America, so he was fluent too. Neither taught us Spanish, though we all ended up with fairly good pronunciation (probably just some exposure at family gatherings?).
@@Kev27RS My Mom's first language was Spanish & she was thrown into English attending school. My grandmother never spoke English. My Mom ended up with a Masters degree in English literature & another in Spanish literature. My Dad was fluent having spent 12 years in South America working. They never taught us & if we ever tried to speak in Spanish as teenagers (when I was trying to learn) would just correct every single mistake or laugh that we didn't know a vocabulary word. -- Meanwhile I had a friend in high school who spoke 4 languages. She learned French from her Mom, German from her Dad, a Polish from one set of grand parents & learned English in school as a child. They all only spoke to her in one language. Bonkers, but amazing! Meanwhile I only spoke English & taking Spanish classes.
I’ve never once in my life been like “oh wow I feel so represented bc of that Latina character” it’s different for everyone but I don’t think representation is as important as they say it is
tbh i kinda have. When i was below age 12 no because i was a little kid and didnt care about what race people were. But i remember being 14 and seeing Stuck in the middle on disney channel and being happy that they actually showed a different race other than black or white. I feel that way towards other races tho, not just latinos bc im sick of tv just being black and white americans
I think it’s more showing a POC expressing their culture. Craig of the creek showed Filipino kid having dinner with their family sharing Filipino food and talking in Filipino. It feels good seeing representation of your own culture and make you relate to it more.
Can uneducated countries please learn REAL Latin history! Speaking the Spanish language does not magically make some one “Latino”. Just like speaking English does Not magically make people Anglo saxons despite of one’s actual cultural origin. 🙄THE CULTURA LATINA, THE LATIN PEOPLE, THE LATINO (Latini) TRIBES, THE LATIN ETHNICITY ALL COME FROM ITALY! LATINO IS THE SOLE IDENTITY OF SOUTHERN EUROPEAN LATIN MEDITERRANEAN DIASPORA. Latin europe was Latinized by ROME ITALY hence how Latina italy got the name Latina. & HISPANIC (Hispania) is literally the Latin language MEANING SPAIN NOT the NATIVE AMERICANS they Colonized. Latin America got its name SOLELY and ONLY to mean the part of the Americas CONQUERED by LATIN EUROPE and that is all it will EVER MEAN. Latin ORIGIN, HISTORY& people are NON INTERCHANGEABLE. STOP THE CULTURAL THEFT OF MY PEOPLE& OUR ANCESTRY. BRAINWASHED AMERICAN/ MOSTLY NORTH AMERICAN CULTURAL APPROPRIATION & CULTURAL THEFT FOR "PROFIT AND GAIN" WILL NEVER BE LATINO. CULTURAL APPROPRIATION EXIST BECAUSE THOSE LIKE YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE AND WILL CONTINUE TO BENEFIT FROM THE CULTURAL THEFT TOWARDS US TRUE LATIN PEOPLE AND OUR HISTORICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS! AND US TRUE LATINS ARE & HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MULTI GENETICALLY MIXED ETHNIC PEOPLE DUE TO OUR GENETIC CONTRIBUTORS FROM OUR MIDDLE EASTERN (ASIAN), NORTHERN AFRICAN, AND BALKAN GYPSIE DNA. THERE ARE NO "WHITE" LATINS. JUST MORE ASSIMILATION . SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICANS AND MEXICANS ARE NATIVE AMERICANS, MESTIZOS, CASTIZOS, PARDOS, ZAMBOS, AND PURE SUB SAHARAN AFRICANS. NOT LATINS, NOT LATIN BLOOD, THEREFORE NOT LATINO. IN SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICA AND MÉXICO THE ONLY PEOPLE CALLED LATINO AND HISPANIC ARE US SOUTHERN EUROPEANS OF LATIN MEDITERRANEAN ORIGIN. OBVIOUSLY THE SAME IN LATIN EUROPE. PUSHING AND CONTRIBUTING TO BRAINWASHED NORTH AMERICAN MISAPPROPRIATION OF FOREIGN TERMS SUCH AS LATIN/LATINO AS TRENDING PROPAGANDA FOR SOCIAL STATUS TO APPEAR MORE DESIRABLE DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE CONTINUING CONTRIBUTIONS OF CULTURAL THEFT. THE TERM LATINO DERIVES FROM THE TERM LATINI, THE LATINI WHERE THE VERY FIRST LATIN TRIBE TO EXIST FROM ITALY! LATINI IS PLURAL MEANING MORE THAN ONE LATINO! AND LATINO IS SINGULAR FOR LATINI MEANING ONE LATINO. THE SAME WITH LATINA AND LATINE. ALL TERMS CREATED BY THE TRUE LATIN PEOPLE OF ITALY. THE AMERICAN MUTILATION AND CULTURAL RAPE OF LATIN EUROPEAN TERMS NEEDS TO BE EXPOSED.
You don’t have to speak Spanish and you don’t have to be immersed in the culture but don’t claim to be a representative for that culture if you don’t live that culture or have any connection other than “my great grandma” came from X… just be proud and that’s it. No need to proclaim your self to something you’re not.
This seems to be the main issue with Americans, they all go "my great great great grandma was X, so this makes me like 1% X, so this makes me totally X". You'll never hear people from Europe, Asia or Africa say they are "3% European\Asian\African". You are either Russian, German, Japanese, Indian, Ethiopian, etc or not.
I agree with you. It's just that the way things are here in the States, if you're white looking of European heritage, particularly more so northern European, by the first generation you can be simply be referred as American. Everyone else who has other physical characteristics, your family could be here for two three four generations and you're going to be a hyphenated American. If Jenna were of Scottish descent, she would never have to claim any heritage (she could out of choice), but "people of color" can never be just American so she feels probably that she has to claim something. It's a weird position to be in, because for those of us who are very connected to our Latin American heritage the only relatable thing about some "Latinos" is the last name and appearance (sometimes).
As an India, yes absolutely for this case. But in our case, we speak English quite frequently, also we have huge diversity in language. So if I speak my language, my dialect will be so so different than another person speaking same language. So I know many who cannot speak same language, have similar customs. But can speak for our culture, we cannot deny that to them.
People who speaks 3 languages are called Trilinguals. People who speaks 2 languages are called Bilinguals. People who speaks 1 language are called "Americans".
What Americans and some others need to understand is for us Latin Americans the concept of "latino" is different. It's not you having latino parents, it's being raised in a Latin American country. That's the only way you can completely understand what Latin America is and thus what being latino is
@@benugomez she was also raised in the UK. This is very case by case because as someone also born in Miami (where the population is mainly Latinos and Hispanics) ur comment is not valid to many kids who are born from Hispanic parents. These kids grow up speaking spanish and are immersed in their culture despite being US citizens.
@@fresitafawn As we say in my country "The Argentine is born where he or she wants" which means that you don't have to be born here to be one of us, if you know our language, country and our culture, which Anya does, then you are our brother/sister. Messi was born in Argentina and grew up here but he went when he was a child to Spain and stayed there while he grew up, that doesn't make him any less Argentinian. For Messi and Anya, no matter where they are, Argentina continues to be a home. In fact, they come here when they can since their families live here. And although Anya also grew up in the UK, she retains her Argentine accent because that was her first language. She can be Argentine and British at the same time. Not all people identify themselves or have had a life only in one country. There are people who have the right to have a diverse origin and Anya has it.
I am a latina who was born America, my first language was Spanish. Growing up, I honestly never felt "unrepresented". Sure, when I see a latino actor in american shows or movies I get excited but I never saw it as an issue or felt opressed. I never paid attention to the race or color of the person. People just want to make it an issue... my community has a good amount of movies and shows with hispanic actors.
Same I grew up in California & Spanish was my primary language my mom always said in this house you speak Spanish when you’re with friends it’s English
I feel like this too but I don’t want to say it otherwise people perceive me as hating myself for being Latina. I never paid attention to representation in the media unless if it was blatantly offensive.
@@itzel3173 I agree. Sometimes, it's hard to voice opinions in our own community because suddenly "we forget where we come from". I am proud of my roots, just because we don't "go with the crowd" doesn't make us less than.
lets be real. The media is trying make people fight each other to line up with their cause. the media will never break the latino community because they are too strong for that BS. Brett cooper and her team could not give two F's about understanding the latino community. Dora explorer and yo quiero taco bell eyyy hilarious...
Yes 100% Also, we have our own TV series, movies, music etc in the countries our parents came from (mexico, central and south amereica). What more "representation" do we need. I grew up watching Univision and Telemundo. Loved watching novelas. I also grew up watching "American tv" and never felt unrepresented. Like my mom always says, I represent myself and do not need others to do that for me.
I am Argentinian and go to school in the US. Moved here after high school. I am tired of people victimizing themselves for being "latinos/as" when they grew up going back and forth from their mansion and some beach in Florida. Like, I'm sorry, no, you are not a victim. Plus, if you had grown up in the economic/political shit show where I did you'd see how meaningless and stupid it is to be barking all the time about how badly people have it in the US. Yes, be proud, but for God's sake don't play the victim when you're not. Thanks Brett for a great analysis :)
I'm Puerto Rican and Colombian, born in New York, mostly raised in Puerto Rico and I wouldnt dare to boast about my Colombian side because quite frankly I know nothing about the culture. I feel many latinos in the industry like Jenna and J-Lo just use their ethnic background as a stepping stool to get more opportunities but if you were to quiz them on anything about Puerto Rican culture, what really happens on the island and not in NYC they would flunk. Sure, their parents gave the the most minimal cultural upbringing and did them a disservice by not teaching them the language but now that they are adults and have the financial means they have no excuse to not learn the language or spend some time in the place learning/experiencing the culture firsthand. That's what I love about Anya. That she makes a conscious effort to keep going back to Argentina to not lose her culture, she still very much partakes in it and shares it with everyone else from an insiders perspective now that she has a big platform
I've got Scots and German heritage. I speak neither language, but I don't go on and on about it all the time, so nobody thinks I'm a hypocrite. I certainly don't think the woman is required to speak the language to have a cultural connection, but perhaps not putting yourself in situations that make you look hypocritical would be a good idea.
This! I’m from Ethiopia but I don’t speak more than two words in their language. However, I’m also not bringing it up 24/7 because that isn’t my whole identity.
Exactly! I’m half rican & half Italian. I just about grew up between here and PR. I don’t speak Italian or Spanish. Neither do my siblings. I have a cultural connection to both. However, first and foremost, I’m an American & my ethnicity is not all of me.
My little brother is Latino (Nobody else in the family is) and he doesn't speak a lick of Spanish. He's aware of some things in Spanish culture but has never felt the need to fully connect to the culture itself because it's not the culture he was raised in and that's okay. He doesn't try to pretend to be something he isn't and no one wants him to be.
I mean the language we speak in Scotland is exactly what you’ve just typed out lol, unless you’re talking about Gaelic speakers which are less than 1% of the population.
I’m American but my background is English,Irish, and Scottish. If I tell a Irish man I’m Irish. They laugh in your face. “Nah you are American” lol. My family might have came on the Mayflower but I’m American lol
@@tt67791 No it’s about geographical location. You’re from somewhere in Latin America, you’re Latin. Brazilian people are Latin but lot Hispanic. Spanish people are Hispanic but not Latin. French, Italian and Romanian are "Latin" languages ( they’re Latin based like Spanish and Portuguese) but the people are neither Hispanic or Latin. I don’t think the point made by the original comment was that Latin people are Latin because they share a culture together. But rather that within a Latin American country, what makes you Latin is your culture, not your genetics. You can be Black, White, Asian, Native etc, and still fall under the "Latin" umbrella. That’s what I understood personally, maybe my interpretation is wrong.
@@haywoodjablowmi1427 bro your american brain n3eds to comprehend this, the sole reason latin America is called latin america is because they speak languages derived from latin, The roman empir3 gave origin to latin language, and The roman empire was composed by italy romania france Portugal and spain, thes3 People are all considered latins...
@@tt67791 yes you're right, but also I think is location, language and shared culture or historical points. Because the French Guyana by location and language should be considered latin American, but as far as I know they aren't
As a Uruguayan, I feel more represented with Anya, she speaks Rioplatense Spanish perfectly, she lived in LATAM, knows the culture, loves dulce de leche and empanadas lol, etc... and the girl is not victimizing herself or saying that she is Latina every 5 minutes. 😂❤
Love Uruguay! I lived there for two years... Montevideo, Salto, Artigas, and finally Maldonado. Love the people, learned the language, the food!! I would love to go back. Spent a brief period in Argentina too, and thoroughly loved it. I was in a town in the north called Concordia, across the river from Salto. So beautiful! Shout out to both countries!!
Que lindo encontrar fellow Brett fans aca!!! Brett es un American National treasure, igual que Anya lo es para nosotros; aunque Anya es bastante woke en su vida, lo único que no usa su latin card porque ella misma se considera muy blanca para ser latina, incluso dicho por ella misma... pero si no me equivoco, es bastante cercana a esa izquierda pestilente de USA...
To be honest Anya is whiter because she is from Argentina, and they are whiter there than other Latin American countries. LATINO DOESN'T MEAN DARK SKIN
The word Latino actually means property of Rome. Because the Roman catholic church colonized our people. Hispanic means property of Spain. Argentina is a majority white country because they killed off 90% of the indigenous population. People forget that spanish is a white language. It's OK if Jenna does not speak Spanish her ancestors did not either.
es obvio que la Argentina anya es blanca como una buena parte de Argentinos incluso ingleses la descubrieron cuando era joven y la pidieron para modelar luego un director de cine britanico le propuso que protagonice su pelicula sobre una familia britanica de la epoca medieval con nexos a la brujeria encima aparte la llamaron para otra pelicula sobre nordicos "Northman" para que veas.... no conozco de otra actriz latina que haya causado interes a los ingleses como Anya, excepto Olivia Hussey otra media Argentina
In Argentina we love anya so much bc we see the love and massive respect she has for our country, she has never used the "latinxxxxxsgd" etiquette for anything, and still she just shows how big is the impact that Argentina has in her life, Rachel and jenna are the same people that for years try to get attention for being "latinx", even Rachel who has a colombian mom, everytime she tries to speak Spanish she does it with a Puerto rican accent that she probably learned from west side story.
Taylor-Joy is British, no one uses Latino, Latina or even Latinx here, why would they? Are you under the impression she is an American? She speaks English with a British Accent.
@@gerarddearie-zd2gb she's not British, she was born in Miami. And she also speaks rioplatense spanish bc she was raised in argentina and her accent is British bc she has moved constantly with her parents
@@gerarddearie-zd2gbanya was born in Miami because her argentinian family was on vacations, right after that she moved to Argentina and was raised her first years there. Spanish, rioplatense spanish is her first language and she comes here every holidays and vacations she's free for. She has british accent because after being primarily raised in Argentina she moved to London
Anya being extremely white, does not mean anything. Have you ever seen XUXA? She looks like a German princess. She's also 10.000% more Latina than Jenna. I've lived my whole life in Argentina. I'm white to the point that I can't receive direct sunlight without having serious burns.
I'm fair skinned Puerto Rican. The Europeans, especially Germans, ran to South America after WW2. So no surprised that it's mixed over there in Argentina, Brazil, etc.
Ya sabes, estadounidenses pensando que debes de lucir como Spirit Gonzales para ser latino, como si españa no hubiera dejado descendencia desde que llegaron a lo que hoy es latinoamericana
@@blueelf217 it should be noted that most of the european migration (germans, italians, polish, etc.) to Brazil and neighboring countries happened in the 19th and early 20th centuries, so they are even more integrated into the latin culture than the small amount of europeans who came after WW2
@@diegojavier8276 there's no way to read your literature and history, communicate with your people, understand/experience the society and connect with the culture first hand if you don't speak the language. if you don't know the language, all you'll learn is going to be something that someone taught you.
@@agdistisattis6923She still remains Latin, I really have no clue why people continue to hate, it’s like some of them stalk celebrities to hate on them for the sake of hating as a profession, leave them alone focus on you. As a South African born and raised, I can speak some of my languages conversationally, but before I knew how to speak those languages that didn’t make me less of a South African of Zulu and Botswana descent. Calm down and keep your pants on. God bless.
As an argentinian, of course, I feel more represented by Anya than Jenna... But it's weird to me that Jenna is seen by everyone and herself as latina when she was born and raised in USA and never even learned Spanish... That's a very US-american mindset if you ask me 🤷🏻♂️ Edit: The HUGE problem here is that US citizens misuse language... words like "America", "Americans" and "Latinos" are distorted and uprooted from their true meaning. Are the rest of us supposed to accept their definitions only because of their political, economic and cultural influence? I don't think so.
When you are raised in the US with Hispanic parents you have a wildly different cultural upbringing than your peers causing you to feel like a foreigner in your own country, which is why they identify more with being Latino.
Because in America, your ethnic background defines your identity instead of the place you are from. A non-Spanish speaker with Hispanic roots who was born in America is definitely a Hispanic or Latino.
Anya has a near perfect Spanish, and she talks with a lovely Argentinian accent. She makes an ocassional mistake here and there, understandable in someone who's spent most of her life in English speaking environments - sadly, languages do wear over time if you do not keep using them
I’m Argentinian born with Uruguayan parents. I was raised in Sydney , Australia 🇦🇺 .. when I speak in English I have an Australian accent. When I speak I Spanish I have a Rio platense accent. I’m bi lingual , I read and write in both English and Spanish. I am fortunate enough to have parents that speak to me in Spanish . I wasn’t allowed to speak English at home . As a child I hated it as an adult now I feel blessed that my parents stuck to the values and taught me Spanish.
As a white "Latino" I feel incredibly underrepresented in the media. You don't see white hispanics represented anywhere. In American movies, commercials, etc- the characters/actors are always brown/ish. On another note, I'm Uruguayan and speak with the same accent as Anya. Other hispanics have a hard time understanding Rioplatense Spanish. Especially if they're not native Spanish speakers.
Y luego vez a estadounidenses poniendo que "están cansados de los latinos blancos" lo que me saca bastante de onda, porque de dónde? Si apenas he visto a hispanos blancos en producciones "americanas"
"I feel very proud to be Mexican. I didn't have the opportunity to learn Spanish as a girl but it's never to late to get in touch with your roots." -Selena Quintanilla-Perez
🙄 I think it total BS to say in order to be Latina enough you must speak Spanish. Furthermore to act like all Latin culture is the same is all totally foolish and clearly coming from people who know nothing about the various different cultures with the collective countries. I am Puerto Rican and Colombian born and raise in NY and culturally there may be similarities but our food, customs, even language is different similar sure but not exactly the same. The term Latino is in fact an oversimplification.
Nah I disagree with above comments. Language may not be all there is to culture, but for sure it is big part of it. No offense, but arguing the opposite just sounds like an excuse for themselves to disregard the irony mentioned in the video.
Language is a more important common denominator than ethnicity. If you move to another country and learn a language and speak it very well, people don't care as much about your ethnicity. They will accept you. If you don't speak the language but look like the locals, you won't be accepted. This is true for (almost) any country.
True, language is everything. If someone has other color but speaks like me I see them as part of my country. Foreigners are the ones who have accents regardless of how they look
That's why the United States tried by all means to destroy Spanish in Puerto Rico. Thankfully, they didn't succeed, although they did manage to achieve it, for example, in the Philippines.
As a Puertorican and native Spanish speaker living in the US there hasn’t been many conversations where I feel the need to insert my culture and heritage. I also travel twice a year to PR, like it’s so easy, can’t imagine loving your country so much, being so proud and having the means to visit but not doing so 🤔
@@acappellacris2134porque? Porque somos colonia de los Estados Unidos de America y tenemos ciudadanía americana? Read a book dude even people from Spain call them self Latinos and they aren’t even close to latin America, but if we go by geography Puerto Rico is part of Central America not North America and if it is because our citizenship allowed me to say that all of “Latinos” wouldn’t be part of it since they all have different citizenship so please stop being baboso. quieres una chacletada para que veas si soy o no latina?
Anya even has the accent from Argentina I'm Mexican alot of people from Argentina look white that's normal and I don't need representation I want the best person for the job
I'm Argentinian. I met Anya because I crossed paths with her on the streets last time she was here. She's so humble and she's as Argentinian as Messi, Maradona, Dulce de leche and Asado.
I love Anya Taylor-Joy. She’s just a magnificent actress and just appears more “normal” than other Hollywood actors. The fact that she’s even getting married when there’s like a divorce crisis in Hollywood attests to that. And when I found out she is Argentinian, I loved her even more because she’s doesn’t make it her whole personality. Rachel and Jenna are frauds. It’s fine if they actually have a deep sense of love for their heritage, but the fact that they claim to fight for “Hispanic representation” is laughable. Just be a good actress. I was born and raised in America. Both my parents immigrated from Nicaragua. I’m not fluent in Spanish but I promise you I know more Spanish than those two. And I don’t use my “Hispanic card” (whatever that is) to claim oppression. I’m just a normal guy with Hispanic roots.
Is like Brett Cooper said that there nothing wrong with saying you are heritage but if you didn't grow up in that country why are you going all this time saying"I am proud to represent Puerto Rico culture but I don't know Puerto Rican culture".Comes off as hipocritical because how can you represent something you don't know.
Honestly at this moment even Matt Damon represents Latins much better. He embraced the language and culture thanks to his wife. His children were raised under the Argentinian culture and he made the conscious decision to learn the language, so he could be part of the multi-cultural family
noooooo. I would make them both sing: YO TOMO LICOR, YO TOMO CERVEZA Y ME GUSTAN LAS CHICASSSSS , LA CUMBIA ME DIVIERTE Y MESITAAAAAAAAAA♪ and I bet Anya does it better
The irony is, these same people tried to cancel him for being more conservative than other Hollywood actors. Yet he seems far more actually accepting of people than others.
Well, if you are going by that account then John Wayne was much more Spanish than Matt Damon. Also from his wife's side but he shot movies in those areas, chiefly Mexico, and employed many spanish-speaking actors. His name has been tarnished by one stupid journalistic piece in Playboy and the fact he was an American patriot. For those claiming "draft dodging", he was old. He was born in 1907 and would have been in his late 30s during WWII.
I can only speak for myself. My parents are from Puerto Rico. They taught me Spanish. When I reached adulthood, I noticed I was not speaking it as well as I'd liked. I also got comments from other Latinos that my Spanish was not great, or that I spoke too much Spanglish. I worked my butt off to improve my Spanish. At one point I spent over 2 years only watching Spanish television programs at home. I sat in front of the T.V. with a pen and paper and a dictionary writing down all of the words and phrases I did not understand. This was before high speed internet and UA-cam. Sometimes I had to call my mom and ask her what certain words meant. I had notebooks full of notes and I would read them every night. My Spanish now is very good but I never stop practicing and trying to learn new words. If you really want to, you can learn it.
As Argentinians, Anya makes us proud, not only for her constant affection for our country, for our Spanish-speaking culture, but also for her humility and friendliness. I like to believe that this has a lot to do with its true multi-cultural nature; and not posturing like others.😏
@@lleh3712 im not proud of having Anya in anyway but it feels nice to have more people that knows your culture, and she really knows it, not like the others. We still have some other actors like Viggo Mortensen for example, he really is connected to Argentina.
Your comment made me laugh xD I hope you will enjoy those extra years, LOL! Btw, where I live you usually use "esposo" when you're legally married and "marido" when you're just living together with no legal papers. Isn't it funny how it's the same language but the meaning depends on where you're from? 🙈
@@basicallyno1722 I'm not argentinian and I totally understand what the other person tried to say... Los hispanohablantes sabemos cuándo alguien no sabe hablar correctamente el español, incluso con tantos acentos diferentes, no necesitan tener el mismo acento que tú para que los reconozcas como verdaderos latinos.
My cousin’s daughter, also Argentinian of Northern Italian background, is blond and blue eyes, and frankly looks Northern European, she works in NYC at a large corporation, they brought a WOKE minority person to speak about cultural expropriation and other woke things , and she was reprimanded for speaking Spanish , because she looks white. WTF, that is her native language! She didn’t argue , she likes her job.
As a Dutchie, I say we would totally accept you, especially since 97% of us speak English (besides Nederlands/Dutch) anyways I recently toured the Mid-West and was surprised by how many people said they have Dutch heritage, which was rather wholesome. I think Americans tend to be more focused on heritage exactly because they're often so far from their roots, and that's fine. Making it your whole personality, frankly... is cringe. With that said groetjes uit Nederland, bedankt voor de interessante videos elke dag en blijf zo door gaan!
Hi, I'm one of those Midwesterners with Dutch roots. 👋 My great grandpa immigrated from the Netherlands, my grandpa still keeps in contact with some of his cousins from the motherland. You'll definitely find a lot more Dutch immigrant Pride in the West Michigan area. We even have a city called Holland with a Dutch village built into it as a tourist trap, lol.
@@Snow-Willow was looking for this comment! Us Mid-West Michiganders are still very proud of the culture even though 80% only knows three words Dutch. My grandma has a mug that maps out how all the families are connected (Oliebollen anyone?)
Yes in the Netherlands we have a beautiful mix of cultures I’m proud to be Dutch as well as African and my kids are Suriname 😅 and my husband American!!!
Omg thank you for bringing attention to this! I’ve seen it all my life lol. I’m a fairer skinned Latina, Venezuelan heritage and Spanish was my first language too. People are very quick to dismiss me embracing my culture because I don’t “look” it, including other Latinos. But most of the more-Latino-looking Latinos I encounter don’t speak Spanish at all 😅
It crazy people associate a "look" with a culture only proving that they have no clue about cultures. Also crazy that people would criticize you for your culture because you don't fit into their small little idea of what you "should" look like. It's difficult navigating the modern fools of society.
pretty sure the latinos who say you dont look latina didnt group in latinoamerica cuz there its not a "look" for latinos, there its black, white, asian, indian etc, im venezolano too, born and raised in venezuela, im white skin, my sister its what americans will call "lightskin black", same my older brother but the older of the 4 its white like me, my cousins are black for my mama side of the family, she its morena, we got asian family in the north of the country cuz a cousing of my grandmom marry an asian dud, latino its culture, i cant denied your roots as latino but i cant call you latino if you cant speak the lenguage, you dont know your country flavors or music, god alot dont even know what countries share border with the one their parents came from...
Anya Taylor-Joy is English, Scottish, and Argentinian and she's played characters who were American, English, and Russian...because she's a damn good actress! Loved her in The Witch, Split, Last Night in Soho, The Menu, and she did the best she could with New Mutants. (Haven't seen Queen's Gambit but heard good things)
@@dangercat9188Yes from both Parents One is from Argentina from father Side, and mother Side is Barcelona, Spain, shoot she is Latina, Hispanic, and loves Spanish from Argentina, and dont forget we have all different colors as Hispanic and Latino
I’m a white-as-snow Mexican, born and raised in Mexico, and I’ve always felt like those born in the US (from any heritage, but born and raised in the US) are almost ashamed of just saying they’re American so they make this huge deal about being Latinos or Italians, or any other thing, or their skin color; but they’ve never set foot in those countries or know ANYTHING about them other than what they’ve been told and assume. And then they have the nerve to speak for us and pretend they know what being actually Mexican (for example) is like, when in reality they wouldn’t survive two seconds in the countries they’re claiming as their own. Their own country is America and they have to learn to be proud of that.
I don't think your perspective is accurate at all lol. Nationality and ethnicity are 2 different things. I was born in America indeed but I grew up speaking Spanish, eating Mexican food, watching Mexican telenovelas, etc so I do heavily identify with being Mexican/Latino. I've been multiple times as well. I also believe being "proud of your country" is dumb, you should be proud of things you accomplish not things you had no input in, like the country you're born in.
@@55CINCO55 dicho justo como gringo, peleando por querer separarte de ser gringo solo porque has comido tacos y visto telenovelas, y porque entiendes español. Mi mamá es Chilena y tengo pasaporte chileno también, y también he visitado Chile pero nunca diría que soy igual que mis primas que crecieron en Chile, ni diría que me identifico con esa experiencia o cultura. Es súper diferente vivir toda tu infancia o vida en un lugar y crecer con todas las sutilezas de esa cultura, los problemas, los miedos, la forma de ser educado, etc. Haber visto telenovelas y comido comida mexicana no llega ni a la superficie de lo que es vivir día a día en México, los gringos mexicanos tuvieron muchísimas experiencias y ventajas por la decisión que tomaron sus papás de buscar una mejor vida en Estados Unidos. Y voltearse y decir que no quieres identificarte con eso también es insultar sus esfuerzos, en mi opinión.
@@natj-vs You're really dumb lol. You're acting like every experience is the same even within Mexico lmao. Do you understand what a culture is? It is indeed the language you speak, the food you eat, the entertainment you consume, etc. Of course I don't have 100% of the Mexican experience but you don't need to. A Mexican person who was born and raised in the Monterrey Metropolis will have a lot more in common with a Mexican American than they will with a Mexican person born in an indigenous village in the middle of the Chiapas Jungle. Not sure how you got the idea that I'm trying to separate myself from America or that I don't identify as being American. You can be part of multiple cultures and ethnicities you know that right?
Born and raised in Brazil, I speak both Portuguese and Spanish and must say that the language is a fundamental part of being immerse in a culture. I do not think that Jenna and Rachel have had a true Latin experience if they’ve always lived in the US and don’t understand the language, it does not matter how many Latin family members they are surrounded by. With the language comes music, popular culture, sayings, expressions, jokes… that help build a country’s identity. You even think differently in different languages.
Do you know what colonization is? As someone who is from the state of New Mexico where it’s majority Hispanic state most of us don’t speak Spanish especially the younger generation. This is because we became a state in 1912. And when we did become a state we literally got segregated and looked down on by other states for not speaking English so many young people don’t speak Spanish. We have a RICH culture in New Mexico that is very “Latino” & both those who speak Spanish and English take part in that culture. I recommend you visiting Santa Fe some time.
@@Lizardtheblizard I don’t think this the case of neither Jenna nor Rachel as they from California and Jersey and not even third generation. My great grandparents were French and German and that does not make me part of European culture. Its such a STRECH. Also I’m sure your culture is very rich in Santa Fe, and not less than ours, but it has been changed and there fore is a different culture. Language will ALWAYS be one of the main pillars of any culture.
True, I'm from Argentina, and let's be honest, if you want, you can. I've lived in Portugal for 7 months last year and I've learned a lot of Portuguese, I've only studied it for 6 months. I do believe that if she wants to connect with her roots and wave that flag, you must learn at least the basics.
@lizardtheblizars that’s exactly my grandfathers experience! Either they were going to be “too native” or “too Mexican” and each was absolutely dangerous. When he came back from Europe after world war 2 he still got SO much racism despite half of his family being native to the land (mestizo, half Spanish half native. The Spanish side was in New Mexico since the 1500s). He decided it was going to be easier for his kids if they just learned English. This is a common latin-American experience. It’s crazy all of these people coming from other countries commenting on a specific Latino-American experience.
Jenna has the money to pay for the best spanish lessons if she wants to represent the whole community and not just the community living in the United States. She can also buy a map and learn the names of all the latin countries located in South America and Central America.
Right? Selena had to go thru this in the 90s, but she ACTUALLY put in the work & learned to speak fluent spanish in order to connect with her fans. And I am actually more impressed that, as an American citizen, that she speaks ENGLISH & not Spanish - like the rest of the illegal immigrants.
It’s hard growing up in a north American country and looking latina. It’s like being adopted, you don’t really fit in 100% anywhere. Still I’m fed up with this representative garbage. Give me good character development! Characters I can admire! And also there are a lot of latinos who speak English and they are very snobby towards speaking Spanish, like it’s beneath them. It’s ridiculous
@@jennifersenenko6755 English, if they are living in America. English, so that I, living in an English speaking country do not have to push #2 on my phone to talk about business. If I moved to Japan, I would be expected to speak & read Japanese to function in daily life. They would not cater to me. If they want to continue speaking Spanish in all of their daily affairs, they should reside in a Spanish speaking country. One of my friends came from Vietnam with her mother, as a child. Her mother has STILL refused to learn functional English. This forces my friend to do all of her medical & business affairs from afar. She is in effect her mother's personal translator. I think that is wrong. If she wanted to come here, she should learn to communicate with the people who were already here.
I've been all over Latin America, and there were 2 moments that were quite striking as I was trying to learn the language. The first time you see a person of Asian descent speaking fluent Porteño Spanish in Argentina and, the first time you encounter red-headed Latinas/Latinos. It just shows you how diverse the Latin world really is. Heck, most of the people we regard as Latino in the US, are really Native American at heart...they just happen to have been imbued with Spanish language and culture.
I kind of feel for Jenna Ortega. Her speaking about being insecure about claiming her heritage sounded very sincere and I believe that, had her PR team not pushed her down that road, she would have found a way to deal with it that isn't this dishonest. Obviously, she's an adult so I'm not trying to claim that she isn't responsible for this at all, but to me it seems like this is part of a "brainwashing" trend that can be seen on both extremes of the political spectrum. A lot of today's discourse could be described as "learned outrage". People get upset over nothing. People cry because their identities aren't respected, they cry because other people have identities they don't understand, they cry because there are too few black people in the media, they cry because there are too many, they cry because some women want to be stay at home mums, they cry because some women want careers. It's ridiculous. Most of it could be solved if people just minded their own business. I don't have to stop eating cake because my neighbour doesn't like cake, but I'm also not allowed to force-feed him cake. As easy as that. And this fake outrage is so ingrained in society now that it creates people like this who aren't allowed to take time to form their own opinions but are forced to adapt aggressive mindsets to the point where they think they're actually theirs.
I 100% agree with this. That interview felt like she was letting her guard down a bit and that her PR team are very much pressuring her to focus on her heritage
In my opinion as a Latina (Dominican) language is the biggest player in connecting to my heritage. I mean, the Latino culture is BIG on music which of course, you need to know Spanish to understand. Our foods have names that don’t even have translations. Also, we usually have big united families and having elders around, you need to speak Spanish cause most of them don’t speak English well or don’t even want to. So, language is not everything, you can still enjoy music and food without it, but I believe language is at least 50%.
@NightOwl0230 she didn't say it connects you to a whole continent but to a certain region or country. I am neither Latina nor Spanish but I am trying to learn Spanish first because I like the music, I like to understand whati listen to not just vibe along with the melody. So I don't see why Jenna Ortega doesn't make any efforts to learn Spanish if non Latinos are learning it.
I know. As a Dominican and Haitian, Haitian culture is more accepted in my family; although we have family in Dominican Republic. And it doesn’t help I’m from America. I know 0% Spanish but I’m taking Spanish 1 in school because I also understand it’s a big part in culture.
Yo creo que lo que realmente se crítica, es que algunas actrices hacen gala (presumen) de una cultura de la que carecen, con el fin de atraer más público.
Being latino is more focused 100% on language than ethnicity or heritage. Since the term refers to speakers of latin or romance languages in the american continent. Btw say hello to Rudecindo, great guy!
Both my parents migrated here from Mexico. We Hispanics do not care about representation. Yes it can make us feel appreciated and seen, take a million miles away as an example, but a lot of the time we don’t care.
That's because we have our own shows, from our origin countries. These things are American, so we should stop asking them to represent everyone else. They speak English, do American things and grew up with the culture, even if their parents are latinos, they are American and that's ok
😅 Mexicans are indigenous Americans and mestizo NOT Hispanics Not Latino. These types of people only call themselves Hispanic or Latino as trending propaganda for social status amongst culturally ignorant people such as North Americans of the USA/ Canada. Can uneducated countries please learn REAL Latin history! Speaking the Spanish language does not magically make some one “Latino”. Just like speaking English does Not magically make people Anglo saxons despite of one’s actual cultural origin. 🙄THE CULTURA LATINA, THE LATIN PEOPLE, THE LATINO (Latini) TRIBES, THE LATIN ETHNICITY ALL COME FROM ITALY! LATINO IS THE SOLE IDENTITY OF SOUTHERN EUROPEAN LATIN MEDITERRANEAN DIASPORA. Latin europe was Latinized by ROME ITALY hence how Latina italy got the name Latina. & HISPANIC (Hispania) is literally the Latin language MEANING SPAIN NOT the NATIVE AMERICANS they Colonized. Latin America got its name SOLELY and ONLY to mean the part of the Americas CONQUERED by LATIN EUROPE and that is all it will EVER MEAN. Latin ORIGIN, HISTORY& people are NON INTERCHANGEABLE. STOP THE CULTURAL THEFT OF MY PEOPLE& OUR ANCESTRY. BRAINWASHED AMERICAN/ MOSTLY NORTH AMERICAN CULTURAL APPROPRIATION & CULTURAL THEFT FOR "PROFIT AND GAIN" WILL NEVER BE LATINO. CULTURAL APPROPRIATION EXIST BECAUSE THOSE LIKE YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE AND WILL CONTINUE TO BENEFIT FROM THE CULTURAL THEFT TOWARDS US TRUE LATIN PEOPLE AND OUR HISTORICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS! AND US TRUE LATINS ARE & HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MULTI GENETICALLY MIXED ETHNIC PEOPLE DUE TO OUR GENETIC CONTRIBUTORS FROM OUR MIDDLE EASTERN (ASIAN), NORTHERN AFRICAN, AND BALKAN GYPSIE DNA. THERE ARE NO "WHITE" LATINS. JUST MORE ASSIMILATION . SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICANS AND MEXICANS ARE NATIVE AMERICANS, MESTIZOS, CASTIZOS, PARDOS, ZAMBOS, AND PURE SUB SAHARAN AFRICANS. NOT LATINS, NOT LATIN BLOOD, THEREFORE NOT LATINO. IN SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICA AND MÉXICO THE ONLY PEOPLE CALLED LATINO AND HISPANIC ARE US SOUTHERN EUROPEANS OF LATIN MEDITERRANEAN ORIGIN. OBVIOUSLY THE SAME IN LATIN EUROPE. PUSHING AND CONTRIBUTING TO BRAINWASHED NORTH AMERICAN MISAPPROPRIATION OF FOREIGN TERMS SUCH AS LATIN/LATINO AS TRENDING PROPAGANDA FOR SOCIAL STATUS TO APPEAR MORE DESIRABLE DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE CONTINUING CONTRIBUTIONS OF CULTURAL THEFT. THE TERM LATINO DERIVES FROM THE TERM LATINI, THE LATINI WHERE THE VERY FIRST LATIN TRIBE TO EXIST FROM ITALY! LATINI IS PLURAL MEANING MORE THAN ONE LATINO! AND LATINO IS SINGULAR FOR LATINI MEANING ONE LATINO. THE SAME WITH LATINA AND LATINE. ALL TERMS CREATED BY THE TRUE LATIN PEOPLE OF ITALY. THE AMERICAN MUTILATION AND CULTURAL RAPE OF LATIN EUROPEAN TERMS NEEDS TO BE EXPOSED.
This is the perfect example for Americans to understand once and for all that being "Latino" is something cultural, not something racial. Just because you are brown, you are not automatically Latino. It's like when an American born and raised in Mississippi, calls himself Scottish just because he has a grandfather who was from there.
Jenna's ability is what is sort of known in the American Latino community as "No Sabo" (name origins coming from an incorrect pronunciation of "I don't know" in Spanish) and it does make you pretty nervous because No Sabo kids are treated quite cruelly by other Latino's.
But then why is she trying to speak for latinos? The thing is, it's usually no sabo kids who actually don't know much about any latino culture. They are AMERICAN and should just be ok with that. It's fine just because they grew up eating latin food doesn't mean they NEED to over identify as latinos
Can uneducated countries please learn REAL Latin history! Speaking the Spanish language does not magically make some one “Latino”. Just like speaking English does Not magically make people Anglo saxons despite of one’s actual cultural origin. 🙄THE CULTURA LATINA, THE LATIN PEOPLE, THE LATINO (Latini) TRIBES, THE LATIN ETHNICITY ALL COME FROM ITALY! LATINO IS THE SOLE IDENTITY OF SOUTHERN EUROPEAN LATIN MEDITERRANEAN DIASPORA. Latin europe was Latinized by ROME ITALY hence how Latina italy got the name Latina. & HISPANIC (Hispania) is literally the Latin language MEANING SPAIN NOT the NATIVE AMERICANS they Colonized. Latin America got its name SOLELY and ONLY to mean the part of the Americas CONQUERED by LATIN EUROPE and that is all it will EVER MEAN. Latin ORIGIN, HISTORY& people are NON INTERCHANGEABLE. STOP THE CULTURAL THEFT OF MY PEOPLE& OUR ANCESTRY. BRAINWASHED AMERICAN/ MOSTLY NORTH AMERICAN CULTURAL APPROPRIATION & CULTURAL THEFT FOR "PROFIT AND GAIN" WILL NEVER BE LATINO. CULTURAL APPROPRIATION EXIST BECAUSE THOSE LIKE YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE AND WILL CONTINUE TO BENEFIT FROM THE CULTURAL THEFT TOWARDS US TRUE LATIN PEOPLE AND OUR HISTORICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS! AND US TRUE LATINS ARE & HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MULTI GENETICALLY MIXED ETHNIC PEOPLE DUE TO OUR GENETIC CONTRIBUTORS FROM OUR MIDDLE EASTERN (ASIAN), NORTHERN AFRICAN, AND BALKAN GYPSIE DNA. THERE ARE NO "WHITE" LATINS. JUST MORE ASSIMILATION . SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICANS AND MEXICANS ARE NATIVE AMERICANS, MESTIZOS, CASTIZOS, PARDOS, ZAMBOS, AND PURE SUB SAHARAN AFRICANS. NOT LATINS, NOT LATIN BLOOD, THEREFORE NOT LATINO. IN SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICA AND MÉXICO THE ONLY PEOPLE CALLED LATINO AND HISPANIC ARE US SOUTHERN EUROPEANS OF LATIN MEDITERRANEAN ORIGIN. OBVIOUSLY THE SAME IN LATIN EUROPE. PUSHING AND CONTRIBUTING TO BRAINWASHED NORTH AMERICAN MISAPPROPRIATION OF FOREIGN TERMS SUCH AS LATIN/LATINO AS TRENDING PROPAGANDA FOR SOCIAL STATUS TO APPEAR MORE DESIRABLE DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE CONTINUING CONTRIBUTIONS OF CULTURAL THEFT. THE TERM LATINO DERIVES FROM THE TERM LATINI, THE LATINI WHERE THE VERY FIRST LATIN TRIBE TO EXIST FROM ITALY! LATINI IS PLURAL MEANING MORE THAN ONE LATINO! AND LATINO IS SINGULAR FOR LATINI MEANING ONE LATINO. THE SAME WITH LATINA AND LATINE. ALL TERMS CREATED BY THE TRUE LATIN PEOPLE OF ITALY. THE AMERICAN MUTILATION AND CULTURAL RAPE OF LATIN EUROPEAN TERMS NEEDS TO BE EXPOSED.
@@Kaybye555and in places like brainwashed America especially North America it is people who FACTUALLY are NOT of Latin origin speaking for the Latino people such as those like you and the women in this video. Fyi America INCLUDES SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICA AND MEXICO. Can uneducated countries please learn REAL Latin history! Speaking the Spanish language does not magically make some one “Latino”. Just like speaking English does Not magically make people Anglo saxons despite of one’s actual cultural origin. 🙄THE CULTURA LATINA, THE LATIN PEOPLE, THE LATINO (Latini) TRIBES, THE LATIN ETHNICITY ALL COME FROM ITALY! LATINO IS THE SOLE IDENTITY OF SOUTHERN EUROPEAN LATIN MEDITERRANEAN DIASPORA. Latin europe was Latinized by ROME ITALY hence how Latina italy got the name Latina. & HISPANIC (Hispania) is literally the Latin language MEANING SPAIN NOT the NATIVE AMERICANS they Colonized. Latin America got its name SOLELY and ONLY to mean the part of the Americas CONQUERED by LATIN EUROPE and that is all it will EVER MEAN. Latin ORIGIN, HISTORY& people are NON INTERCHANGEABLE. STOP THE CULTURAL THEFT OF MY PEOPLE& OUR ANCESTRY. BRAINWASHED AMERICAN/ MOSTLY NORTH AMERICAN CULTURAL APPROPRIATION & CULTURAL THEFT FOR "PROFIT AND GAIN" WILL NEVER BE LATINO. CULTURAL APPROPRIATION EXIST BECAUSE THOSE LIKE YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE AND WILL CONTINUE TO BENEFIT FROM THE CULTURAL THEFT TOWARDS US TRUE LATIN PEOPLE AND OUR HISTORICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS! AND US TRUE LATINS ARE & HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MULTI GENETICALLY MIXED ETHNIC PEOPLE DUE TO OUR GENETIC CONTRIBUTORS FROM OUR MIDDLE EASTERN (ASIAN), NORTHERN AFRICAN, AND BALKAN GYPSIE DNA. THERE ARE NO "WHITE" LATINS. JUST MORE ASSIMILATION . SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICANS AND MEXICANS ARE NATIVE AMERICANS, MESTIZOS, CASTIZOS, PARDOS, ZAMBOS, AND PURE SUB SAHARAN AFRICANS. NOT LATINS, NOT LATIN BLOOD, THEREFORE NOT LATINO. IN SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICA AND MÉXICO THE ONLY PEOPLE CALLED LATINO AND HISPANIC ARE US SOUTHERN EUROPEANS OF LATIN MEDITERRANEAN ORIGIN. OBVIOUSLY THE SAME IN LATIN EUROPE. PUSHING AND CONTRIBUTING TO BRAINWASHED NORTH AMERICAN MISAPPROPRIATION OF FOREIGN TERMS SUCH AS LATIN/LATINO AS TRENDING PROPAGANDA FOR SOCIAL STATUS TO APPEAR MORE DESIRABLE DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE CONTINUING CONTRIBUTIONS OF CULTURAL THEFT. THE TERM LATINO DERIVES FROM THE TERM LATINI, THE LATINI WHERE THE VERY FIRST LATIN TRIBE TO EXIST FROM ITALY! LATINI IS PLURAL MEANING MORE THAN ONE LATINO! AND LATINO IS SINGULAR FOR LATINI MEANING ONE LATINO. THE SAME WITH LATINA AND LATINE. ALL TERMS CREATED BY THE TRUE LATIN PEOPLE OF ITALY. THE AMERICAN MUTILATION AND CULTURAL RAPE OF LATIN EUROPEAN TERMS NEEDS TO BE EXPOSED.
My girlfriend is Latina and she grew up speaking Spanish and English. She’s lost some of her Spanish over the years since moving away from her family but can still hold a conversation in Spanish that’s slightly more advanced than the basics. She’s also visited Mexico once or twice where her father grew up. But she doesn’t go around preaching about how Latina people need more representation. Does she get excited when an original character is Latin based? Absolutely. Keyword ORIGINAL. From what she’s told me she finds it offensive when people take characters and just change their race instead of being creative enough to create new characters and stories about people of Latin origin.
Love this point. I don't understand why Hollywood doesn't expand their source material to fairy tales from other cultures and represent those characters with people of those cultural backgrounds. You don't even have to make an original character in that sense anyway. Why rehash Grimm's tales with new races? Makes no sense. Our world is too connected to use the argument that you only ever knew about the European stories. An internet search could probably pull up some cool central American stories.
@@lunar.mermaid Hollowwood is a business, you overestimate the audience for "fairy tales form other cultures", its going to demand alot of investment, why bother if you can use already recognizable names and brands and simple race swap characters? Not like white people protect their cultural heritage, at least not yet.
The only thing I know as a real Latina (born, raised and living in Colombia) is that I’m freaking tired of gringos and people who’ve never set foot in Latam telling us what being Latin is and what’s not. And as philologist, I can tell you language is vital to understanding a culture. Anya is super Latina not only because she speaks perfect Spanish, but because she’s lived here, she’s immersed into our culture and she proofs it not by giving speeches about representation but about talking about Dulce de leche every time she can, for instance. The thing is, people from the US reduce culture and ethnicity to a skin color and it goes way beyond that, Latam is diverse in phenotypes, we come in every color, but what really unites us as Latinos is our culture. Jenna is estadounidense as it is. It’s about time for US people to accept themselves for where they were born in regardless of a skin color. If you were born and raised in the US that makes you estadounidense. Period. No need to claim any heritage from a place you don’t even know. The US is a diverse country and US people can come, as we Latinos ourselves do, in every color, shape or form.
As a Chilean girl, I grew up thinking Argentinian girls were mostly all blond beauties because of the particular type of argentinian tourist that came over on holiday to the beach. So Anya fits perfectly with my odd childhood stereotyping 😂😅
I could somewhat relate to Jenna because my mom never taught me Spanish growing up. I know a little from school, but I'm not yet fluent. But I'm still really proud of my Peruvian Heritage, and I am familiar with most of it other than the language. Ritchie Valens, the guy who recorded the original La Bamba, actually did not speak Spanish, but he did a lot for Latinos in rock and roll. He probably would have done more if it weren't for the plane crash that killed him.
Richard Valenzuela, The record company insisted he us a stage name because they thought the white audience wouldn't accept an ethnic musician. Apparently, they never noticed the Anglo teenage girls go crazy every time he stepped on stage.
Im from Venezuela and all latinas are welcome to feel that way! The ones born in the US and the Ones that didn’t. Why are we trying to gatekeep our culture!? Lmao
As a non-spanish speaker Latina, I just want to clarify that you can infact be latina without speaking speanish, like us Brazilians, for example. But the fact that Jenna keeps talking about hispanic culture, that makes her not speaking spanish really bad 😬 Edit: I think some people are not understanding my point lol. I'm not saying that if you were born in the US from immigrant parents are also Latinos, what I'm saying is that ACTUAL LATINOS can speak other languages in Latin America, like Portuguese and French, bcs it's LATIN AMERICA, not Hispanic America. Me for example, I'm Latina, I'm from Brazil, but I speak Portuguese, not Spanish.
Exactly, I'm a non-Spanish speaking Latino too. I never liked Jenna Ortega because I figured that she's part of the woke mob and support the same things as they do. As much I'm proud of our heritage, I never insert it into every conversation all time like her.
Viva Anya Taylor!!! I hope some day she stars in an Argentinian film like Viggo Mortensen did in 2012 Todos tenemos un plan, both of them were raised in my country and speak in the Buenos Aires accent
As a child of the USA and of a father that is native Mexican I never learned Spanish and I ALWAYS felt I never properly represented Mexican American. Not my fault my dad didn’t teach me 🤷🏽♀️it reminds me of this time I was called in for a job interview and I was with all latinas. Later I was told they specifically wanted to hire more latinas because there was a growing Spanish speaking community. I was there with my yankee accent like “yup, I only speak English.” But don’t get it twisted: I still work as hard as a Mexican 😂
There are actually neurological benefits to learning it as an adult, since you would have a ready supply of family members to practice with periodically. our brains prefer things that are easy, so when we take up things that are not alone or a challenge it’s a great workout for the gray matter, not to mention that people trying to work on languages as adults are the coolest.😎 sigue practicando de vez en cuando en cualquiera oportunidad lo que haya parecido.
As long as you don't go around saying that you should be in more places to represent your culture more, or try to teach others what it's like to live immersed in Spanish culture. You won't be bothered, at most they will ask you if you speak Spanish, or know this or that, and some people will be a little surprised. The point is that you are no longer Latina, Latina. You are a descendant. The culture you grew up in is different.
I feel growing up, I related to the line of Selena's father in the bio pic Selena where he says "Mexican Americans have it tough. We have to be more Mexican than the Mexicans and more American than the Americans for them to accept us" I'm paraphrasing I think because it has been a while but it spoke to me and I felt rang true for forever lol
What about celebs like Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Sophia Vergara, Penelope Cruz, or even Christina Aguilera? There are and have been plenty of Latina women representing in music, movies and TV from the 90’s onwards and probably a lot more that I am missing. It’s not like she and Rachel are the first or doing the most.. I agree that it’s great to be proud of your heritage and upbringing, but like Brett said you don’t need to make it your whole personality.
selena and demi crack me up bro. I used to be a huge fan of them when i was 10-12 years old and had no idea they were even half hispanic until out of nowhere they started talking about how proud they are to be latina.
@@moon66487 Penelope is not Latina Americana, which is what we're talking. She's hispanic and latin because of the language. You can refer as latin countries even Italy and French for example, because their languages come from Latin. Now, again, she's not the latina we're talking about. She's hispanic, at most.
@@blusheid2273 she's Latina, not Latin American. Exactly Italy, France, Portugal, etc. Are Latin countries. However, the term Latino/a is commonly used in reference to Latin Americans, but that doesn't make Spanish less Latinos. They're, just, not American.
Jenna Ortega is actually known for putting a lot of effort in her acting and refusing to compromise when writers want to insert agendas into writing that won’t match the character… I haven’t seen a Latina line for her. She probably talks about being Latina a lot because of the reporters and her agents wanting her to talk about it. Diversity is a buzz word now a days and everyone is obsessed with it.
I was a former fan of hers, and even back then she pushed the whole Latina thing heavily. I don't think her agents are pushing it on her, I genuinely think she's this way. She also supports every far-left thing under the sun, she's like planned parenthood's number one cheerleader lmfao. And as for the script that got blown out of the water because she actually wanted the screenplay to be more progressive and feminist, the bad kind. The writers themselves are actually pretty normal. Idk where the myth came from that Jenna is "based" and "chill" when she's obviously not, again I used to simp for her years ago, so I know and seen some wack shit from her. Main reason why i can't stand her now.
Exactly and specially ANYA TAYLOR surprised me so much a couple years ago because when she comes to mi city, Mexico city, she always speaks spanish fluently it is impressive!
As a latina born in Latin America, speaking spanish as my first language, IVE BEEN SAYING THIS. Im often so annoyed by people that push this rhetoric when they don’t even know about the culture they come from. They use it for their benefit as to give themselves some sort of credibility when in reality you will never be like the people born in those countries. Even if you did speak the language. You will have never gone through the same experiences or the hardships, so why use my experience (that you’ve probably only heard of and don’t have the right perspective on) to make urself famous and advocate for the wrong (usually more lib) fixes? Its so upsetting.. The same way, American communists say to ME, a cuban that lived under Castro, that we don’t understand communism… America is filled with entitled teenagers (being 21 myself lol) that think they have some perspective on political topics only because they look a certain way. When in my opinion, you’re privileged by default on the global scale because u were lucky to he born in a free country. So WHY BRING THAT COUNTRY DOWN
The communism part omg. I hate seeing them talk about how great a concept it is. I actually saw a comment on Twitter the other day calling Castro 🤮 a hero to the cuban people. I’m not going to sit here and pretend I know what Cuba is like to live in. I’m first generation cuban American, I was born in Miami… but I always hear the stories of my family coming to the US and what they went through. Some of them can’t even talk about it 30+ years later. To those people who have such a desire to live in a communist regime, I say go for it. Move to that country but do not bring that crap here. They’ll learn what it’s actually like and only then will they understand what immigrants of communist countries are talking about. Hearing what my family went through, there is genuine fear in me of ever having to live under a dictatorship. Those people are 100% crazy.
What the fuck are you saying? I’m Latino, don’t speak Spanish, was born in America (acknowledge the privilege although I was born poor), and I love our people. I’m highly educated and representing well. I WANT more representation in Hollywood for our people. Don’t fucking tell me I can’t have this opinion because I don’t speak Spanish. I don’t love our people any less than you. I want every Latino to be doing well. We might not share the same country experience but we share the same core of family first.
I have british surname (Smith), and born in Argentina, I speak spanish and english... regardless that, I consider myself a Latino ... Agunte Anyaa carajo, la mejor ! y no curra con boludeces por el color de piel, lo latino es cultural, no racial. Hay latinos blancos, negros, amerindios, asiaticos, etc... So be at peace with God, may his light reach you all !!! Happy Chrismas !!!
For us, if you were not born or raised in a Latin country, you are not Latin. Here no one perceives their nationality through blood because there is a lot of diversity and mixture of different ethnicities. We feel represented by the similarities of the countries, the culture and even the way of thinking and seeing life is different from an American, we feel proud of it and seeing Jenna Ortega in Hollywood supposedly representing it is ironic because she does in the most American way possible that makes us laugh, she wants to represent us. Latinos think the same, but there are too many supposedly Latino people who defend her and its because they are Americans too.
THIS! I tried forever to fit in with my cousins in mexico. They were never cool with me claiming to be mexican. As soon as i stopped trying to fit in with them and start saying i was american and not mexican, theyd flip out and say QUE TE CRES GRINGO AHORA?! Which fucking is it then? You cant have it both ways. If you dont claim us then you must accept us as gringos!
@@Mr.Pop0 As a Latina, and I don't say this to brag but to give my point of view, I believe that anyone should answer only for their place of origin. If you were born in the USA and raised there, you are from there, it does not matter if your parents, grandparents or great-grandparents come from somewhere else, each person has the right to have their own cultural identity. You are not your parents, nor your grandparents, nor should you be responsible for another family member who has a different ethnic origin than yours, nor is it your obligation. My parents come from completely different places from where I am, they grew up in the fields (they are different provinces, which in the USA, would be like states) and I grew up in the city, yes it is a stupid example and it is not like they came from another country, but my point is that they have an origin that does not It has nothing to do with mine because they have a different culture and upbringing than mine and they chose for my life to be somewhere else and that is where my cultural identity was formed. Obviously the roots of our relatives deserve all the respect and recognition from us because we are part of the same legacy. My point is: Be proud of where you come from.
The only reason celebrities who belong to a minority community talk about the oppressions of their community is to boost their own opportunities and not because they care about their community 🤷
If you want to give them the benefit of the doubt; There is also a lot of pressure on a lot of them to champion that cause, whether they believe in it or not, and some of them might have a legitimate fear of letting people down. I'm not saying that's the case here, but it is a possibility that should be mentioned.
Its such bullshit when she talks about latin representation especially when we all grew up with JLo, Salma Heyak, Sophia Vergara, Eva Longoria, Rosalina Sanchez, etc. She sounds dumb to everyone with a working brain
@@rolandswift4311 I'm in the same camp, that and Jenna being the massive progressive that she is, is probably due to her social environment being Hollywood ever since she was a pre-teen. I don't 120% blame her for her cringe, but damn, she's 21 and she can't wake tf up already? Maybe it really is hard to break out of that victimhood/woke mindset.
You missed with this one. The thing is that Argentina has a strong hard sense of belonging. People who are somehow related to Argentina (even a little) always feel some kind of immense pride about it. There are some celebrities like Viggo Mortensen who is very involved (very crazily) with a popular soccer team called San Lorenzo (St. Lawrence) and also has a very strong standpoint, although privately, in Argentina's politics.
almost all if not all countries used to have this sentiment but now some have lost it however i know that mexico and spain still have this sentiment, a sentiment many americans seem to have forgotten
It's definitely the PR team pushing it and also media questioning and editing to highlight it. When she speaks directly about it she expresses how she feels about it, before she gets positioned by those around her. She reminds me of an ex-boyfriend who has parents from Puerto Rico who moved to the mainland US right before he was born and forbid him from learning Spanish because they wanted him to assimilate. He was in his 30s before he finally spent a Summer in PR in a Spanish language immersion program. Until then he was always insecure and embarrassed by the fact that he didn't speak Spanish despite obviously looking Latino and having a Spanish last name. Ortega is still quite young. Standing up to all the professionals pushing this angle at her, or even addressing the decision her Spanish speaking parents made to not teach her the language as a child, well that might just take a little more maturing before it can be expected of her. Brett, you're so young, maybe you've not yet developed compassion for youth, because you aren't old enough to know just how dumb you youngin's actually are. LOL
i’m a brazilian living in europe and portuguese is my first language because i was raised in brazil. i have a half brazilian friend who was born in europe and didn’t grow up learning portuguese, but still visited brazil and put in the effort to learn portuguese after he was already a teenager. if those latinas really cared, they would learn spanish. there’s so many free resources online, that if you don’t learn at least the basics you can’t really use any sort of excuse like “my parents didn’t teach me young”. if they wanted to, they would 💁♂️
American here with a French immigrant mom. I speak both English and French fluently. I’m currently learning Spanish as a third language. It’s been a year and I’ve been doing Duolingo every day. Where I live, there are way fewer Hispanics to practice Spanish with and I still speak 10x better Spanish than Ortega does. My French might help me big time, but it’s still pathetic AF and I have no sympathy
You're right, they're just excuses. I still remember that many people of Latin origin in the United States were ashamed and denied being Latin. Now they say that they were always proud to be Latin.
Agreed. I’ve only ever spoken English but learned a bit of German in school and now at 34 I’m learning Dutch 😅 I’d love to know multiple languages and wish I’d have started as a child but you’re right, there really is no excuse not to learn and if you want to represent a certain culture but don’t put in the effort, as a celebrity no less, it will definitely be called out 😂
if it proves my point any further, i myself learned english fluently, intermediate spanish and french, and i'm currently learning polish and japanese... it's all about whether the person truly wants to be part of the culture or not.
I personally think that Jenna was sincere when she spoke about "being diluted" and being nervous to "claim" her heritage" from personal experience (because I also don't speak my mother tongue and those are my exact feelings) because, at the same time, she has nothing else to claim. She can feel all of those things and still wants to see more Latina representation (that is fully culturally emersed) Latina, even if that's not who she is.
Yes! Exactly! All the mainly Mexican gate keepers come out saying she can't claim being Latina cuz she doesn't speak Spanish. Language is not ethnicity. And also most of society won't see her as just an American girl either. She looks ethnic, she's probably treated that way. It sucks when it wasn't your choice to grow up speaking Spanish. Its usually hard to keep a half and half family bilingual. Then you get shamed for it and told you can't claim the other half of your family. Like thats what defines me, who are you?!
I relate to this a lot. Even my own family (like younger cousins, aunts/uncles) have made fun of me for my lack of proficiency in spanish 🥲 since I’m not dark skinned and born in America, it’s viewed as almost being lesser-than those who are more authentically latino. I agree with you. Those words about “being diluted” felt real.
The thing is, you can't go to a culturally different country and demand them represent your culture more. It should be South America's responsibility to represent its culture, not default to the U.S.A., which has its own culture.
Anya Taylor Joy is Argentine. She should be able to speak her language perfectly. She was born in Miami that’s all. She lived in Argentina as a child and her parents are Spanish speakers. She also speaks English because her family are English who bb migrated to Argentina. Then, she lived some years in the UK. I was born in and studied Elementary in Miami and junior and high school in Ecuador. I would slap myself silly if I could command both languages. I identify with my Cuban, Ecuadorian and American heritage. Latinos are not a race. It’s an ethnicity.
Is not only about speaking spanish (Brazil is a part of Latin America, and we speak portuguese here!) but it's about not only SELLING the image of being latino, but actually LIVING as one. I AM more represented by Anya because by speaking one of the languages spoken in Latin America, she can be MUCH MORE connected to us, she can communicate even with me since portuguese and spanish have similar words. You can't be out there talking about how you want to represent a community you can't even PROPERLY COMMUNICATE with.
@@retnuh1262What is it with you people saying white people don't have culture? Seriously deluded if you believe we foreigners we are going to make a distinction between you because of your skin colors.
@retnuh1262 what are you talking about? Anya lived and breathed in Argentina. She was in the culture. You aren't about to tell Canelo. The mexican white redhead that he doesn't have culture.
From a Latin American perspective, the way "Latino" is used in North America (USA) is curious. It often refers to a nationality or skin color that seems unfamiliar to us. In Latin America, "Latino" denotes the Romance languages spoken in the Americas, such as Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Our primary means of identification is by our state, region, province, or department, depending on the country or nationality. Given these differences, the use of "Latino" in the United States seems perplexing.
Lo usan para diferenciar todo lo que está al sur de ellos como ciudadanos de segunda clase. Yo soy Argentino, no latino. Los que usan el termino latino son los países más cercanos a USA en los que el peso cultural de ese país es más fuerte.
Totally agree. That’s why as a Brazilian I never thought of me being Latina since I don’t speak Spanish and I don’t know the first thing about the Spanish speaking countries in Latin / Central or North America. I just don’t get it. 🤷🏻♀️
Latino means Latin American so anywhere Mexico and below. You can claim that ethnicity if you have heritage anywhere there, but people actually from those countries are going to be more comfortable identifying as such.
Language doesn't determine heritage, but language is culture (that was one of the first things we covered in intercultural studies). That's why there was such an uproar from her own community. There is a difference between "this is where I come from" and "this is who I am." If you keep talking about how latina you are, I'm going to expect some kind of linguistic proficiency in Spanish.
Jenna Ortega isn’t a loud “woke” person. Shes a young actress and loves her work. That’s it. She’s nervous to claim it because of this. Videos that pick at the smallest thing. And yes this is her definitely being pushed by her PR team.
@@teastrainer3604 same thing with Selena Gomez. Common misconception is that her dad was born in Mexico but he as well as her mom were both born in Texas and she can't even say more than 5 words but everyone defends her but Jenna receives hate?
Anya speaks with a perfect Argentine accent. She speaks like someone from upper class, which makes sense as her family is wealthy. You would not notice she is not from here. Fun fact: Viggo Mortensen also speaks Spanish with an Argentinean accent.
Their parents duh you said yourself you were raised like this. Most abandoned their old lives for a better future. Jenna is proud but regrets not learning her culture much.
When a person immerses themselves into their culture the first must do is to learn the language. Only then it will allow you to fully get involved in conversations about everything from food to politics. It connects you in a deep and meaningful way.
@@TriforcebroI hear that! I don’t know why people think that not speaking the language keeps people from practicing their cultural heritage. It’s ludicrous.
That's true, for me the language is part of our latin heritage, and culture in general. Yes you can still connect to the culture without learning the language, but it's not the same. I speak both, english and español and even when it comes to getting a job knowing both gives you a great advantage
Is it just me or does it seem like Jenna genuinely wants to be more in touch with her Latina culture, but wants to be quiet about it. Her PR team wants her to be public about it all.
Yeah that sounds pretty likely. Netflix has been trying to appeal to Hispanic people for years because it is a HUGE potential audience. Wouldn't surprise me if they ask actors of Hispanic heritage to advertise it in interviews.
I genuinely believe that Jenna is a good person with good intentions. Unfortunately PR teams pretty much decide what they are supposed to say at all times.
I feel like people are being a bit harsh on the girl. I understand saying diversity all the time can get annoying but it does seem like she liked her culture and I'm gonna assume she knows some things like food,activities and her parents probably acting like your stereotype latin family. Hard to say but to call her a hypocrite is a bit of judgement
Im from Puerto Rico and I cannot wrap my head around a rich person that talks about being hispanic that has never taken a 4 hour flight for about $250 to visit the island, it shows lack of interest in the culture.
Idk, I fell for the whole "Jenna might be a cool gal" too until you see what she actually strives for politically and socially. She's pretty much another lunatic.
1: As the child of Argentine immigrants, it is beautiful to hear Anya Taylor-Joy speak Spanish in that beautiful Argentine accent. 2: Jenna is what in the Latino community call " No hablo latinos". It happens sometimes by the 3rd or 4th generation after living the US. My own children aren't as nearly fluent in Spanish as I wish they could be. My husband is white and his only spanish is " restaurant spanish". My parents lived in another state , so my kids weren't hearing Spanish all the time growing up.
Please don’t underestimate the importance of teaching your children Spanish!! Like you were saying, I’m 4th gen Mexican American and don’t speak Spanish. My grandfather never taught his kids and yet he’s disappointed none of his grandchildren speak it. Don’t be the reason your kids and future grandkids never learn. Speak to them in Spanish as much as you can, have them watch spanish kids shows, encourage your parents to speak it to them when your kids see them, etc. You won’t regret doing all those things yet may regret not doing them in the future.
1. Only her dad has Argentinean roots and he's half ANGLO Argentinean so that's that. Her mom is European through and through. 2. Your husband being white has nothing to do with this because Spanish itself is actually a white language. You know, Spanish as in SPAIN, the country in EUROPE.
Why don’t you speak Spanish to them. I live in a French speaking country, my husband speak English to my son and I only Spanish as I am Latina why would not want to speak my language to my own son? And guess what he’s fluent(speak, read and write) in 3 languages 😊
@@EGMADH I do speak Spanish to them but they never picked it up as well as I wanted them to. They can read and understand Spanish better than they can speak it.
Me parece raro que a los gringos les importe tanto la raza y la representación. Soy chilena y no necesito ver a una mexicana en alguna serie para sentirme representada. De hecho, puedo sentirme representada por cualquier personaje, independientemente de su nacionalidad. No todo se basa en la raza, sino que también en la voz, la postura y las experiencias. Esa es la magia del cine 👀. En cuanto a la “representación latina”, creo que Jena Ortega está puro weando. Pero le funciona, así vende más, parece que en Hollywood solo se fijan en el color de piel de las personas, en fin, la hipotenusa 🐍 En inglés para mis cabros (in english for my guys) I find it strange that Americans care so much about race and representation. I’m from Chile and I don’t need to see a Mexican in a series to feel represented. In fact, I can feel represented by any character, regardless of their nationality. Not everything is based on race, but also on voice, posture, and experiences. That’s the magic of cinema 👀. As for “Latino representation,” I think Jena Ortega is exaggerating a bit. However, it seems that in Hollywood, they only care about people’s skin color…the hypocrisy 🐍.
It’s just sick the need of label someone with a race/ethnicity that americans suffer. I’m “white” due german and spaniard heritage, but I was born and raise in southern South America so I identify myself as “latina”. My blood absolutely boiled when i was in the states and had to take a COVID test to went back to my home country, the nurse (an afro american woman) asked my race, and I was like “why is that relevant, wtf… but yeah, I’m latina” then HER RESPONSE WAS “HONEY, YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY WHITE” OMFG, I swear I never hated someone that bad, who did she think she is??? It’s absolutely rude to deny someone’s self perception by their looks! Latinos are mixed af, northern latinos doesn’t look like southern latinos AT ALL, but americans tend to think that we all look mexican 🫠 Argentina, Chile and Uruguay are mostly white due the italian, german, british and spaniard influence, but still latinos! 😤 it’s like stating all americans are white, when americans can look asian, black, latinos, arab, etc, etc, etc.
That’s not only Argentina, Chile and Uruguay most Latin American countries have large white populations with mostly European heritage yet there are stereotypes that we are all mestizo or mulato. I’m a “white” Puerto Rican my kids are blonde with Gray/Blue eyes and Americans AND other Latinos are surprised to know we are fully Puerto Rican.
@@LolaDelMarCaribe😂😂😂😂 póngale 0 . No ala que se refiere es ala cantidad de población. Lógico que todos los países tiene gente de origen europeo . Pero los países que nombró la mayoría son blanco. En la primaria y secundaria . En mi país eran todos blanco . Mis vecinos . Unos mas que otros depende de que parte de Europa vinieron . Los del sur son más oscuros que los del norte. O que querés que nos identifiquemos diciendo soy afro o aborigen !! Si no lo somos
@@basicallyno1722 yeah, but the concept is clear, latinoamericanos are people with native american and european people whose languages have romantic heritage, so even if it is not a “pure race” there are a lot of features and even diseases and culture in common.
They don't get that a Latin American can be any skin color and still be a latino, including being white and blonde or Asian, black or native or any other race, we have it all people. But they always put us in this box of who is supposed to be latino and who represents us. It is really odd to see Sofia Vergara on the first season of modern family, looking very tanned and with really dark hair and dark eyes, when she's white. When she started she was blonde you could see that on her early commercial when she was young but in the show she looks like she's somebody else.
As a Mexican I feel represented in "Friends" the tv show lmao. There is not a single Latino in there, however it is a show about 6 close friends that go through every life experience imaginable together and its funny af. Plus there's an episode where Jenifer Aniston says like 3 Spanish words. I feel more represented by Jenifer Aniston's Panera Bread Spanish than Jenna Ortega's Taco Bell Spanish 🤣🤣🤣
This is exactly how I feel, and how I think most people in Argentina feel like. The whole Latino representation always seemed weird to me. We just grew up feeling identified with Drake and Josh, Hanna Montana or Lizzie McGuire lol or for example with the wizards of waverly place, they are supposed to be Latinos, yet that gets lost in the translation I guess because they felt like any other Disney channel family.
@@missene8870los yanquis tienen obsesión con el color de la piel, lo que te conecta con un personaje es la personalidad que tiene ,con eso te identificas o no.
3:11 "I'm too white to speak spanish" The whole video is about a white person speaking spanish... kinda contradictory (Also, I'm a white argentinian that obviously speaks spannish... ¡Media pila, che!
Yea I noticed that, too. I really enjoy Brett's content and videos but, and I am not holding this against her AT ALL, I believe because of her self-admitted lack of knowledge and familiarity with Spanish and/or hispanic culture, the "I'm too white" when self-deprecatingly declining to attempt pronouncing a Spanish phrase was jarring and the only time I have felt a little second-hand cringe watching her videos. She actually looks more "hispanic" than most of the White hispanic fluent-spanish speakers here in Coral Gables, Florida. If I saw her on the street, I would assume she was another white Cuban girl who speaks fluent Spanish with her grandparents 😄 Not something I care too much about but yea it seems North Americans are the only people in the world who haven't learned yet hispanic is an ETHNICITY, not a race 😅😅
I am from Argentina, the country where Anya lived in her childhood, and ours is a multicultural country, only 20 years ago the term "Latino" began to be used massively here due to the influence of the Internet, but until the 90's for an Argentine there was not much difference between foreigners from countries like Mexico, France, or Poland. Beyond the language, everyone was foreign to us, and at the same time we could relate to everyone. Argentina, in addition to Italian and Spanish immigration, at the beginning of 1900 received many Polish, Germans, Italians, French and several other nationalities, you can see it for example in the last name of former president Kirchner, the soccer player Alexis MacAllister. Saying "I'm too white for..." implies that all Latinos should look brown like Mexicans, but in fact, Latino culture comes from Europe, and there are tons of Latino people with white skin. What is called "Latino" in the USA, is actually a mixed race of indigenous people.
As someone from the Cajun French heritage, I can definitely say that speaking Cajun French is something that was totally discouraged for my grandparents, and so future generations rarely were able to speak or understand the language. It was definitely something that was discouraged, as they were told only to speak English. I wish I was able to know Cajun French, especially since it's close to being a dead language now. But I can definitely say that I always had pride in my heritage because it's me, it's where I come from, and it has shaped me in so many ways
Yeah it's messed up that the Us has destroyed the language diversity surrounding it, it's a great thing that countries like Canada and Switzerland are able to keep that multiculturalism alive
Her parents did her a great disservice, I was forced to take Spanish lesson after regular school and also Italian bc we had family we would go and visit in the summers. They wanted her to assimilate and made a choice not to teach her. Of course, now she can choose to learn but lets be real, she's just a good Hollywood mouthpiece.
Exactly, her parents could have given her the gift of being bilingual but they chose not to. Assimulation is important, but that does not mean you have to forget where you come from and language is a huge part of that. But like Brett said, she has the ability to learn it now if her Latino roots are actually that important to her. But shes just another Hollywood leftist spewing identity politics.
Dude, her parents and family are Californians who threw their daughter into the Hollywood meat grinder lmao. Hollywood parents aren't that bright or really moral lol
I totally agree with you, as a Mexican, I hate that Selena Gomez used her “Latina card” for everything, when she don’t even speak Spanish. At least you can try, but no, she just pretend to sing some Spanish words and not even that good.
Isn't Selena half Italian too? I doubt she can speak Italian either. Also, I've noticed she never talks about her Italian heritage as much as she talks about being Mexican because that's the white part of her, so it doesn't fit into the minority card
Excellent analysis. I just find your channel and I really love it. As Argentinian I can say that here we absolutely LOVE Anya, and the way that she don't brag about her roots as something so special that deserve Some sort of extra "privilege". And her accent is just amazing. Also: MI GENTE LATINO 😂
As a peruvian, living in Peru, I feel closer to Anya. When you listen to her you feel something familiar, I feel like we could speak about common experiences and share similar cultural codes, that's completely different to Jenna. Beeing Latino is not only sharing a language but cultural codes as well. Being Latino is not racial at all, you could be white as a Sweden or black as a subsaharian african and be equally Latin.
Totalmente cierto hermano, no se trata simplemente de si hablas o no el idioma, sino ciertas reglas culturales. Cualquier latino escucha un fragmento de esa parte en la que ella dice sentirse "desconectada" y se da cuenta que es efectivamente lo que Brett dice, simplemente lo hace para ser woke y ser aceptada socialmente, le importa 3 pepinos realmente representar a los latinos y esta perfecto, nadie esta obligado a representar a nadie mas que a si mismo, y es alguien que se gano todo por su cuenta, no le debe nada al pueblo latino, pero vergas, no mientas tan descaradamente en nombre de otras personas.
I’m Peruvian too and I been living in New York since I was 11. Im 30 now and I don’t give a 💩 who’s playing who. There’s too much stereotyping in Hollywood films that it’s expected.
Y por qué no escribís en español? Que usen ellos el traductor..hace valer tu idioma.
I live in the States and come from Mexico I'm 100% sure I can relate more with any first or second-generation Mexican than with Anya.
@@oscarolvera9069 Exactly, there are over 60 millions latinos in the US and those who are born here/come very young go through a different experience. When they back to their home country they are made fun because their Spanish isn't perfect and here they are asked "where are you from?" implying that they are not from here. Uno crece como ese sentir que no es de aqui ni de alla and at the end it branches out into a different latino experience igual que un Mexicano en Mexico or un Argentino en Argentina, un Dominicano en Republica Dominicana. US latinos create their own identity as well.
The thing I LOVE about Anya (as an Argentinian myself) is that she doesn't FORCE IT. She seems a lot more relaxed and authentic. I feel like in the US the "conversation" is just telling them what they want to hear about what latin American people look like or do. So that's why they are more prone to claim that Jenna is a "latina" without even questioning it. I've had my "argentinianness" questioned while traveling in Miami because I'm too white and speak English too well, which just tells you there are heavy preconceived notions of what a latina looks like.
Definitely!!! I live in the Dominican Republic and even in this one country alone you’ve got every single shade of skin colour, hair colour, hair type, stature, eyes, etc. there is no set way that Latinos look! And all the Argentinian people I’ve met have been just as white as me haha.
@@hollybooth6946I'm Brazilian and same
It's probably because Ortega's been told to go around everywhere to the press representing Hollywood's feeble attempts at diversity whilst Taylor-Joy's probably been told to keep her mouth shut cause Ortega looks more Latina than Taylor-Joy. Looks are all that Hollywood needs to fulfill its diversity quota after all, people's original culture and heritage be damned.
Can uneducated countries please learn REAL Latin history! Speaking the Spanish language does not magically make some one “Latino”. Just like speaking English does Not magically make people Anglo saxons despite of one’s actual cultural origin. 🙄THE CULTURA LATINA, THE LATIN PEOPLE, THE LATINO (Latini) TRIBES, THE LATIN ETHNICITY ALL COME FROM ITALY! LATINO IS THE SOLE IDENTITY OF SOUTHERN EUROPEAN LATIN MEDITERRANEAN DIASPORA. Latin europe was Latinized by ROME ITALY hence how Latina italy got the name Latina. & HISPANIC (Hispania) is literally the Latin language MEANING SPAIN NOT the NATIVE AMERICANS they Colonized. Latin America got its name SOLELY and ONLY to mean the part of the Americas CONQUERED by LATIN EUROPE and that is all it will EVER MEAN. Latin ORIGIN, HISTORY& people are NON INTERCHANGEABLE. STOP THE CULTURAL THEFT OF MY PEOPLE& OUR ANCESTRY. BRAINWASHED AMERICAN/ MOSTLY NORTH AMERICAN CULTURAL APPROPRIATION & CULTURAL THEFT FOR "PROFIT AND GAIN" WILL NEVER BE LATINO. CULTURAL APPROPRIATION EXIST BECAUSE THOSE LIKE YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE AND WILL CONTINUE TO BENEFIT FROM THE CULTURAL THEFT TOWARDS US TRUE LATIN PEOPLE AND OUR HISTORICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS! AND US TRUE LATINS ARE & HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MULTI GENETICALLY MIXED ETHNIC PEOPLE DUE TO OUR GENETIC CONTRIBUTORS FROM OUR MIDDLE EASTERN (ASIAN), NORTHERN AFRICAN, AND BALKAN DNA. THERE ARE NO "WHITE" LATINS. JUST MORE ASSIMILATION . SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICANS AND MEXICANS ARE NATIVE AMERICANS, MESTIZOS, CASTIZOS, PARDOS, ZAMBOS, AND PURE SUB SAHARAN AFRICANS. NOT LATINS, NOT LATIN BLOOD, THEREFORE NOT LATINO. IN SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICA AND MÉXICO THE ONLY PEOPLE CALLED LATINO AND HISPANIC ARE US SOUTHERN EUROPEANS OF LATIN MEDITERRANEAN ORIGIN. OBVIOUSLY THE SAME IN LATIN EUROPE. PUSHING AND CONTRIBUTING TO BRAINWASHED NORTH AMERICAN MISAPPROPRIATION OF FOREIGN TERMS SUCH AS LATIN/LATINO AS TRENDING PROPAGANDA FOR SOCIAL STATUS TO APPEAR MORE DESIRABLE DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE CONTINUING CONTRIBUTIONS OF CULTURAL THEFT. THE TERM LATINO DERIVES FROM THE TERM LATINI, THE LATINI WHERE THE VERY FIRST LATIN TRIBE TO EXIST FROM ITALY! LATINI IS PLURAL MEANING MORE THAN ONE LATINO! AND LATINO IS SINGULAR FOR LATINI MEANING ONE LATINO. THE SAME WITH LATINA AND LATINE. ALL TERMS CREATED BY THE TRUE LATIN PEOPLE OF ITALY. THE AMERICAN MUTILATION AND CULTURAL RAPE OF LATIN EUROPEAN TERMS NEEDS TO BE EXPOSED.
@@maitherolfsenlisa5593 WRONG! REAL ETHNICALLY LATINO MEN AND WOMEN ARE US RACIALLY MEDITERRANEAN PEOPLE OF PROMINENT LATIN EUROPEAN ORIGINS! AND WE LOOK LIKE TYPICAL MEDITERRANEAN PEOPLE! BRAINWASHED, CULTURALLY ASHAMED AMERICANS HAVE MISAPPROPRIATED OUR LATIN EUROPEAN TERMS AS TRENDING PROPAGANDA TO APPEAR MORE DESIRABLE FOR SOCIAL! YOU ARE NOT LATINO PEOPLE AS YOU ARE NOT PEOPLE OF REAL AND ACTUAL LATIN ORIGIN! Can uneducated countries please learn REAL Latin history! Speaking the Spanish language does not magically make some one “Latino”. Just like speaking English does Not magically make people Anglo saxons despite of one’s actual cultural origin. 🙄THE CULTURA LATINA, THE LATIN PEOPLE, THE LATINO (Latini) TRIBES, THE LATIN ETHNICITY ALL COME FROM ITALY! LATINO IS THE SOLE IDENTITY OF SOUTHERN EUROPEAN LATIN MEDITERRANEAN DIASPORA. Latin europe was Latinized by ROME ITALY hence how Latina italy got the name Latina. & HISPANIC (Hispania) is literally the Latin language MEANING SPAIN NOT the NATIVE AMERICANS they Colonized. Latin America got its name SOLELY and ONLY to mean the part of the Americas CONQUERED by LATIN EUROPE and that is all it will EVER MEAN. Latin ORIGIN, HISTORY& people are NON INTERCHANGEABLE. STOP THE CULTURAL THEFT OF MY PEOPLE& OUR ANCESTRY. BRAINWASHED AMERICAN/ MOSTLY NORTH AMERICAN CULTURAL APPROPRIATION & CULTURAL THEFT FOR "PROFIT AND GAIN" WILL NEVER BE LATINO. CULTURAL APPROPRIATION EXIST BECAUSE THOSE LIKE YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE AND WILL CONTINUE TO BENEFIT FROM THE CULTURAL THEFT TOWARDS US TRUE LATIN PEOPLE AND OUR HISTORICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS! AND US TRUE LATINS ARE & HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MULTI GENETICALLY MIXED ETHNIC PEOPLE DUE TO OUR GENETIC CONTRIBUTORS FROM OUR MIDDLE EASTERN (ASIAN), NORTHERN AFRICAN, AND BALKAN DNA. THERE ARE NO "WHITE" LATINS. JUST MORE ASSIMILATION . SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICANS AND MEXICANS ARE NATIVE AMERICANS, MESTIZOS, CASTIZOS, PARDOS, ZAMBOS, AND PURE SUB SAHARAN AFRICANS. NOT LATINS, NOT LATIN BLOOD, THEREFORE NOT LATINO. IN SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICA AND MÉXICO THE ONLY PEOPLE CALLED LATINO AND HISPANIC ARE US SOUTHERN EUROPEANS OF LATIN MEDITERRANEAN ORIGIN. OBVIOUSLY THE SAME IN LATIN EUROPE. PUSHING AND CONTRIBUTING TO BRAINWASHED NORTH AMERICAN MISAPPROPRIATION OF FOREIGN TERMS SUCH AS LATIN/LATINO AS TRENDING PROPAGANDA FOR SOCIAL STATUS TO APPEAR MORE DESIRABLE DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE CONTINUING CONTRIBUTIONS OF CULTURAL THEFT. THE TERM LATINO DERIVES FROM THE TERM LATINI, THE LATINI WHERE THE VERY FIRST LATIN TRIBE TO EXIST FROM ITALY! LATINI IS PLURAL MEANING MORE THAN ONE LATINO! AND LATINO IS SINGULAR FOR LATINI MEANING ONE LATINO. THE SAME WITH LATINA AND LATINE. ALL TERMS CREATED BY THE TRUE LATIN PEOPLE OF ITALY. THE AMERICAN MUTILATION AND CULTURAL RAPE OF LATIN EUROPEAN TERMS NEEDS TO BE EXPOSED.
I don't know if it's just me but, as a latino (brazilian), watching american content on UA-cam and listening to phrases like "i'm to white for that" or "she seems pretty white" makes me thing that people in the US believe that you can't be white and latino at the same time haha. Nothing against Brett, i really like her content, it just got me thing about you guys perspective on this.
I’m an American Latina with Mexican heritage and I agree with this statement.
I am Chilean, white as a snowflake and I also agree with your statement. But, I think when she says white, she's referring to her saxon herritage maybe? Don't really know that...
i agree it kind of annoys me when i hear it, it just sounds very ignorant, we aren’t one race but i know people use it to typically mean an american wasp
The "I'm too white" comments every time someone tries to speak spanish (mostly, sometimes also about br-pt) is so freaking annoying as a Portuguese person. There's an entire country of european white people that speaks perfect spanish!
@@FranciscoJavier246 Tbh when I think of people in the Southern parts of Latin America (e.g. Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, etc.), I think white.
The problem is most Americans think of Mexico when they think of Latinos, and I've heard from Mexicans themselves that they view white Mexicans differently.
People often forget (especially Americans) that being Latino is a CULTURE, not a race. There's TONS of different features, looks, skin colors and so on in Latin-American.
Being latino isn't a culture either though, an Argentine and a Mexican person have extremely different cultures. It's just a geopolitical term that's been given too much importance in the US
estas muy equivocado, la deficion seria hispano en todo caso, latino es una definicion que el imperio frances utilizo para empatizar con los mexicanos, no es una cultura porque yo ni como tacos como mexicano ni bebo te de mate como los argentinos, ni se nada de samba o musica brasileña, no tiene nada que ver un mexicano de jalisco con un argentino de tierra del fuego o chileno de Santiago.
Sorry but logically that is just spreading misinformation. It’s just not logical or correct scientifically but okay. Seems some people are basing their opinions on how they feel and not so much on science or DNA.
@@ccroftit is culture stop it Latinos most act a certain way stop talking nonsense!!
@@ccroft Mexicans are Hispanic not Latino but culture's are similar because of the Spanish lineage and the castellan Spanish language connect's everyone including Filipinos.
I’m mexican, I don’t just happen to feel represented by Jenna nor Anya nor do I freaking need to.
We can connect and empathize with others regardless of gender, ethnicity, skin color etc. like we’ve been doing that forever until wokness started to make it such a big issue.
Can uneducated countries please learn REAL Latin history! Speaking the Spanish language does not magically make some one “Latino”. Just like speaking English does Not magically make people Anglo saxons despite of one’s actual cultural origin. 🙄THE CULTURA LATINA, THE LATIN PEOPLE, THE LATINO (Latini) TRIBES, THE LATIN ETHNICITY ALL COME FROM ITALY! LATINO IS THE SOLE IDENTITY OF SOUTHERN EUROPEAN LATIN MEDITERRANEAN DIASPORA. Latin europe was Latinized by ROME ITALY hence how Latina italy got the name Latina. & HISPANIC (Hispania) is literally the Latin language MEANING SPAIN NOT the NATIVE AMERICANS they Colonized. Latin America got its name SOLELY and ONLY to mean the part of the Americas CONQUERED by LATIN EUROPE and that is all it will EVER MEAN. Latin ORIGIN, HISTORY& people are NON INTERCHANGEABLE. STOP THE CULTURAL THEFT OF MY PEOPLE& OUR ANCESTRY. BRAINWASHED AMERICAN/ MOSTLY NORTH AMERICAN CULTURAL APPROPRIATION & CULTURAL THEFT FOR "PROFIT AND GAIN" WILL NEVER BE LATINO. CULTURAL APPROPRIATION EXIST BECAUSE THOSE LIKE YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE AND WILL CONTINUE TO BENEFIT FROM THE CULTURAL THEFT TOWARDS US TRUE LATIN PEOPLE AND OUR HISTORICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS! AND US TRUE LATINS ARE & HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MULTI GENETICALLY MIXED ETHNIC PEOPLE DUE TO OUR GENETIC CONTRIBUTORS FROM OUR MIDDLE EASTERN (ASIAN), NORTHERN AFRICAN, AND BALKAN GYPSIE DNA. THERE ARE NO "WHITE" LATINS. JUST MORE ASSIMILATION . SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICANS AND MEXICANS ARE NATIVE AMERICANS, MESTIZOS, CASTIZOS, PARDOS, ZAMBOS, AND PURE SUB SAHARAN AFRICANS. NOT LATINS, NOT LATIN BLOOD, THEREFORE NOT LATINO. IN SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICA AND MÉXICO THE ONLY PEOPLE CALLED LATINO AND HISPANIC ARE US SOUTHERN EUROPEANS OF LATIN MEDITERRANEAN ORIGIN. OBVIOUSLY THE SAME IN LATIN EUROPE. PUSHING AND CONTRIBUTING TO BRAINWASHED NORTH AMERICAN MISAPPROPRIATION OF FOREIGN TERMS SUCH AS LATIN/LATINO AS TRENDING PROPAGANDA FOR SOCIAL STATUS TO APPEAR MORE DESIRABLE DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE CONTINUING CONTRIBUTIONS OF CULTURAL THEFT. THE TERM LATINO DERIVES FROM THE TERM LATINI, THE LATINI WHERE THE VERY FIRST LATIN TRIBE TO EXIST FROM ITALY! LATINI IS PLURAL MEANING MORE THAN ONE LATINO! AND LATINO IS SINGULAR FOR LATINI MEANING ONE LATINO. THE SAME WITH LATINA AND LATINE. ALL TERMS CREATED BY THE TRUE LATIN PEOPLE OF ITALY. THE AMERICAN MUTILATION AND CULTURAL RAPE OF LATIN EUROPEAN TERMS NEEDS TO BE EXPOSED.
Personally i do feel represented by jenna 😂 ive never seen a celebrity like her aka a latina that isn’t presented as the stereotypical voluptuous hot latina. She is just chill
¿Tu latino?
They lied to you man, your English is too good to be a latino.
Pero si hablas Español, te la paso (yo tambien soy Mexicano)
@@Demi.d3miCanelo me representa (Mexicano pero con facha de europeo patan).
Anna no se, aunque vaya que se cae de buena...
@@el_killorcurebeing bad at English is a precursor for someone being latin? 😂😂😂😂😂
There is a difference between ethnicity and culture. She shouldn’t feel ashamed for not being fully aware of culture but if you pretend to be aware and you’re not then you look foolish.
I identify as a Spanish speaking Latina now please congratulate me 😁
@@TurtleChad1 how strong of you! 👏👏👏
@@TurtleChad1congrats, now you probably have a higher chance of getting into the top colleges and universities 😂
Brett inspires me.. My parents said if i get 60K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally
Begging.
People shouldn’t be proud of their culture, they should just be grateful and aware of it. We must end tribalism and putting pride in frivolous things
No, it's not that Anya Taylor-Joy just speaks Spanish. She does it exceptionally well, to the point you can't believe she's also fluent in English, because Spanish sounds like her native language. I'm from Argentina, and I'm telling you: people who aren't native Spanish speakers, sadly, will never appreciate how good her Spanish is. On top of that, she has a perfect Argentine accent, which is kinda mind blowing.
Spanish is her first language
I am brazilian and have been to Argentina a couple times and her spanish is so good. I know sometimes (very rare) she says something wrong or in the wrong way, but even my brother who moved to France does that now when speaking in portuguese. This is common to happen to those who move to another country even if they were used to speak their mother language for years.
@@sodapopjamno shite, every Argentinian knows that
@@sodapopjam the only stupid comment here is yours. Captain obvious
@@sodapopjam I said I can't believe she's also fluent in English. Being able to speak two languages is normal, but being fluent in two of them, while keeping your accent for both, is not. I said her accent is mind blowing because she has an exceptionally good one. Ana De Armas also speaks Spanish and grew up speaking that language, but she lost her accent because she was speaking English for a long time, and you can hear how it's getting worst and worst as time goes by. This is something that, as an English speaker, is pretty hard to tell, the same way we, Spanish speakers, have a harder time noticing the differences between different English accents.
Anya, currently, makes mistakes, but she didn't lose her accent. As someone pointed out in another answer, her mistakes are normal, and you see those often when someone gets used to another language because he/she was living in another country for a long time. You seem to believe that growing up in another country and then moving to USA = keeping your perfect native language accent for the rest of your life, or that you'll never forget words after not using them for over a year. That's not the case.
The comment should be easy to understand if you have a semi-functional brain. She has a good accent, and her Spanish is really good, but English speakers can't tell exactly how good it is, both for someone who grew up speaking the language, and in comparison to others who also did.
The whole "Latino" thing is an American cultural construction that has nothing to do with "LatinAmericans" but rather to the idea Americans have from second or third generation immigrants to the USA.
Latin Americans come in all colors. Anya is just a regular Argentinian, ethnically. Maradona is also a regular Argentinian, ethnically. There is no such thing as "looking latino"
And the whole latino representation, sounds quite stupid to us.
Absolutamente cierto!!!!!!!!!
True story. I didn’t want to learn Spanish when I was a kid. I would always speak to my mom and mom was fine with it but she also wanted me to speak Spanish around her and my dad so I would learn and use it more so I can be more proficient in it. I refused to do so and she hated that. So one day I arrive to the kitchen to ask what’s for dinner. She didn’t answer me. I kept asking and asking no one would answer me( my dad was also not responding). She kept ignoring me until I asked her again but Spanish. She pointed to the chair in the kitchen and said “sit down”. She said in Spanish “ I don’t mind you speaking English because we live here in the U.S., but when you’re here at home, you will learn and speak Spanish. You’re Latino and you need to know your parent’s language.” It was one of the best life lessons I ever have.
Good parents! I’m going to do the same w/ my kid 😊 thanks for posting!
It requires a huge effort from parents to do this (especially if the parents are bilingual), but it’s the only way a kid is going to be able to become fluent in Spanish while attending an English-speaking school.
Props to your mother for doing that! 👏
That’s how it should be!
I don’t think it’s only Jenna Ortega’s fault that she’s doesn’t speak spanish, her parents are to blame as well…
I’m sure both speak spanish…
Unfortunately it happens quite a lot worldwide with people who live in a different country than their background.
My Mom claimed was my fault that I didn't learn Spanish. She says I said "I don't want to learn that Greek Spanish." I pointed out that by the time I was saying such phrases that was already way past the point of teaching us. Need to teach as young babies thru language development. -- When older I was trying to learn & she would correct every teeny tiny mistake & treat me like I was mentally defective for being so stupid. Sigh! -- So here I am in my 60s still trying to learn Spanish well enough to feel comfortable to hold conversations. I know quite a bit, but terrified to make mistakes. My Mom's passed away many years now. -- So many of my cousins speak Spanish fluently. Oh well! Not sure why my Mom didn't want to teach us. My Dad had learned working for 12 years in South America, so he was fluent too. Neither taught us Spanish, though we all ended up with fairly good pronunciation (probably just some exposure at family gatherings?).
@@Kev27RS My Mom's first language was Spanish & she was thrown into English attending school. My grandmother never spoke English. My Mom ended up with a Masters degree in English literature & another in Spanish literature. My Dad was fluent having spent 12 years in South America working. They never taught us & if we ever tried to speak in Spanish as teenagers (when I was trying to learn) would just correct every single mistake or laugh that we didn't know a vocabulary word. -- Meanwhile I had a friend in high school who spoke 4 languages. She learned French from her Mom, German from her Dad, a Polish from one set of grand parents & learned English in school as a child. They all only spoke to her in one language. Bonkers, but amazing! Meanwhile I only spoke English & taking Spanish classes.
I’ve never once in my life been like “oh wow I feel so represented bc of that Latina character” it’s different for everyone but I don’t think representation is as important as they say it is
tbh i kinda have. When i was below age 12 no because i was a little kid and didnt care about what race people were. But i remember being 14 and seeing Stuck in the middle on disney channel and being happy that they actually showed a different race other than black or white.
I feel that way towards other races tho, not just latinos bc im sick of tv just being black and white americans
@@ngndnd It's always women worried about representation lol
I think it’s more showing a POC expressing their culture. Craig of the creek showed Filipino kid having dinner with their family sharing Filipino food and talking in Filipino. It feels good seeing representation of your own culture and make you relate to it more.
I agree!
Can uneducated countries please learn REAL Latin history! Speaking the Spanish language does not magically make some one “Latino”. Just like speaking English does Not magically make people Anglo saxons despite of one’s actual cultural origin. 🙄THE CULTURA LATINA, THE LATIN PEOPLE, THE LATINO (Latini) TRIBES, THE LATIN ETHNICITY ALL COME FROM ITALY! LATINO IS THE SOLE IDENTITY OF SOUTHERN EUROPEAN LATIN MEDITERRANEAN DIASPORA. Latin europe was Latinized by ROME ITALY hence how Latina italy got the name Latina. & HISPANIC (Hispania) is literally the Latin language MEANING SPAIN NOT the NATIVE AMERICANS they Colonized. Latin America got its name SOLELY and ONLY to mean the part of the Americas CONQUERED by LATIN EUROPE and that is all it will EVER MEAN. Latin ORIGIN, HISTORY& people are NON INTERCHANGEABLE. STOP THE CULTURAL THEFT OF MY PEOPLE& OUR ANCESTRY. BRAINWASHED AMERICAN/ MOSTLY NORTH AMERICAN CULTURAL APPROPRIATION & CULTURAL THEFT FOR "PROFIT AND GAIN" WILL NEVER BE LATINO. CULTURAL APPROPRIATION EXIST BECAUSE THOSE LIKE YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE AND WILL CONTINUE TO BENEFIT FROM THE CULTURAL THEFT TOWARDS US TRUE LATIN PEOPLE AND OUR HISTORICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS! AND US TRUE LATINS ARE & HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MULTI GENETICALLY MIXED ETHNIC PEOPLE DUE TO OUR GENETIC CONTRIBUTORS FROM OUR MIDDLE EASTERN (ASIAN), NORTHERN AFRICAN, AND BALKAN GYPSIE DNA. THERE ARE NO "WHITE" LATINS. JUST MORE ASSIMILATION . SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICANS AND MEXICANS ARE NATIVE AMERICANS, MESTIZOS, CASTIZOS, PARDOS, ZAMBOS, AND PURE SUB SAHARAN AFRICANS. NOT LATINS, NOT LATIN BLOOD, THEREFORE NOT LATINO. IN SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICA AND MÉXICO THE ONLY PEOPLE CALLED LATINO AND HISPANIC ARE US SOUTHERN EUROPEANS OF LATIN MEDITERRANEAN ORIGIN. OBVIOUSLY THE SAME IN LATIN EUROPE. PUSHING AND CONTRIBUTING TO BRAINWASHED NORTH AMERICAN MISAPPROPRIATION OF FOREIGN TERMS SUCH AS LATIN/LATINO AS TRENDING PROPAGANDA FOR SOCIAL STATUS TO APPEAR MORE DESIRABLE DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE CONTINUING CONTRIBUTIONS OF CULTURAL THEFT. THE TERM LATINO DERIVES FROM THE TERM LATINI, THE LATINI WHERE THE VERY FIRST LATIN TRIBE TO EXIST FROM ITALY! LATINI IS PLURAL MEANING MORE THAN ONE LATINO! AND LATINO IS SINGULAR FOR LATINI MEANING ONE LATINO. THE SAME WITH LATINA AND LATINE. ALL TERMS CREATED BY THE TRUE LATIN PEOPLE OF ITALY. THE AMERICAN MUTILATION AND CULTURAL RAPE OF LATIN EUROPEAN TERMS NEEDS TO BE EXPOSED.
You don’t have to speak Spanish and you don’t have to be immersed in the culture but don’t claim to be a representative for that culture if you don’t live that culture or have any connection other than “my great grandma” came from X… just be proud and that’s it. No need to proclaim your self to something you’re not.
This seems to be the main issue with Americans, they all go "my great great great grandma was X, so this makes me like 1% X, so this makes me totally X". You'll never hear people from Europe, Asia or Africa say they are "3% European\Asian\African". You are either Russian, German, Japanese, Indian, Ethiopian, etc or not.
I agree with you. It's just that the way things are here in the States, if you're white looking of European heritage, particularly more so northern European, by the first generation you can be simply be referred as American. Everyone else who has other physical characteristics, your family could be here for two three four generations and you're going to be a hyphenated American. If Jenna were of Scottish descent, she would never have to claim any heritage (she could out of choice), but "people of color" can never be just American so she feels probably that she has to claim something. It's a weird position to be in, because for those of us who are very connected to our Latin American heritage the only relatable thing about some "Latinos" is the last name and appearance (sometimes).
Tell that to Rachel Zegler. The little Spanish I heard, she obviously doesn't speak it.
Yes, they actually have. People who don't speak perfectly sound like and are seen as foreigners
As an India, yes absolutely for this case. But in our case, we speak English quite frequently, also we have huge diversity in language. So if I speak my language, my dialect will be so so different than another person speaking same language.
So I know many who cannot speak same language, have similar customs. But can speak for our culture, we cannot deny that to them.
People who speaks 3 languages are called Trilinguals. People who speaks 2 languages are called Bilinguals. People who speaks 1 language are called "Americans".
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😂😂😂😂😂 have your deserved like, good man
Americano es toda persona que vive desde Alaska hasta La Patagonia "American is any person who lives from Alaska to Patagonia."
True and real
What Americans and some others need to understand is for us Latin Americans the concept of "latino" is different. It's not you having latino parents, it's being raised in a Latin American country. That's the only way you can completely understand what Latin America is and thus what being latino is
well anya was not born in argentina, so she's not latina anymore? lol, please.
@@fresitafawn You're wrong, I've never said that. She is latina because she was raised in Latin America, Argentina specifically.
@@benugomez she was also raised in the UK. This is very case by case because as someone also born in Miami (where the population is mainly Latinos and Hispanics) ur comment is not valid to many kids who are born from Hispanic parents. These kids grow up speaking spanish and are immersed in their culture despite being US citizens.
@@fresitafawn As we say in my country "The Argentine is born where he or she wants" which means that you don't have to be born here to be one of us, if you know our language, country and our culture, which Anya does, then you are our brother/sister.
Messi was born in Argentina and grew up here but he went when he was a child to Spain and stayed there while he grew up, that doesn't make him any less Argentinian. For Messi and Anya, no matter where they are, Argentina continues to be a home.
In fact, they come here when they can since their families live here. And although Anya also grew up in the UK, she retains her Argentine accent because that was her first language. She can be Argentine and British at the same time. Not all people identify themselves or have had a life only in one country. There are people who have the right to have a diverse origin and Anya has it.
@@Threeleebird i agree with this sentiment
I am a latina who was born America, my first language was Spanish. Growing up, I honestly never felt "unrepresented". Sure, when I see a latino actor in american shows or movies I get excited but I never saw it as an issue or felt opressed. I never paid attention to the race or color of the person. People just want to make it an issue... my community has a good amount of movies and shows with hispanic actors.
Same I grew up in California & Spanish was my primary language my mom always said in this house you speak Spanish when you’re with friends it’s English
I feel like this too but I don’t want to say it otherwise people perceive me as hating myself for being Latina. I never paid attention to representation in the media unless if it was blatantly offensive.
@@itzel3173 I agree. Sometimes, it's hard to voice opinions in our own community because suddenly "we forget where we come from". I am proud of my roots, just because we don't "go with the crowd" doesn't make us less than.
lets be real. The media is trying make people fight each other to line up with their cause. the media will never break the latino community because they are too strong for that BS. Brett cooper and her team could not give two F's about understanding the latino community. Dora explorer and yo quiero taco bell eyyy hilarious...
Yes 100% Also, we have our own TV series, movies, music etc in the countries our parents came from (mexico, central and south amereica). What more "representation" do we need. I grew up watching Univision and Telemundo. Loved watching novelas. I also grew up watching "American tv" and never felt unrepresented. Like my mom always says, I represent myself and do not need others to do that for me.
I am Argentinian and go to school in the US. Moved here after high school. I am tired of people victimizing themselves for being "latinos/as" when they grew up going back and forth from their mansion and some beach in Florida. Like, I'm sorry, no, you are not a victim. Plus, if you had grown up in the economic/political shit show where I did you'd see how meaningless and stupid it is to be barking all the time about how badly people have it in the US. Yes, be proud, but for God's sake don't play the victim when you're not. Thanks Brett for a great analysis :)
Hello.. fellow coutryman (?
Cuantas copas tenes.? 😂
Cuantas copas tenes.? 😂
Bless you!
Bien dicho
I'm Puerto Rican and Colombian, born in New York, mostly raised in Puerto Rico and I wouldnt dare to boast about my Colombian side because quite frankly I know nothing about the culture. I feel many latinos in the industry like Jenna and J-Lo just use their ethnic background as a stepping stool to get more opportunities but if you were to quiz them on anything about Puerto Rican culture, what really happens on the island and not in NYC they would flunk. Sure, their parents gave the the most minimal cultural upbringing and did them a disservice by not teaching them the language but now that they are adults and have the financial means they have no excuse to not learn the language or spend some time in the place learning/experiencing the culture firsthand. That's what I love about Anya. That she makes a conscious effort to keep going back to Argentina to not lose her culture, she still very much partakes in it and shares it with everyone else from an insiders perspective now that she has a big platform
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I've got Scots and German heritage. I speak neither language, but I don't go on and on about it all the time, so nobody thinks I'm a hypocrite. I certainly don't think the woman is required to speak the language to have a cultural connection, but perhaps not putting yourself in situations that make you look hypocritical would be a good idea.
This! I’m from Ethiopia but I don’t speak more than two words in their language. However, I’m also not bringing it up 24/7 because that isn’t my whole identity.
Exactly! I’m half rican & half Italian. I just about grew up between here and PR. I don’t speak Italian or Spanish. Neither do my siblings. I have a cultural connection to both. However, first and foremost, I’m an American & my ethnicity is not all of me.
My little brother is Latino (Nobody else in the family is) and he doesn't speak a lick of Spanish. He's aware of some things in Spanish culture but has never felt the need to fully connect to the culture itself because it's not the culture he was raised in and that's okay. He doesn't try to pretend to be something he isn't and no one wants him to be.
I mean the language we speak in Scotland is exactly what you’ve just typed out lol, unless you’re talking about Gaelic speakers which are less than 1% of the population.
I’m American but my background is English,Irish, and Scottish. If I tell a Irish man I’m Irish. They laugh in your face. “Nah you are American” lol. My family might have came on the Mayflower but I’m American lol
North American people need to understand, that being latin is not about the skin color or race, is about culture.
Is not, its only about language
@@tt67791 No it’s about geographical location. You’re from somewhere in Latin America, you’re Latin. Brazilian people are Latin but lot Hispanic. Spanish people are Hispanic but not Latin. French, Italian and Romanian are "Latin" languages ( they’re Latin based like Spanish and Portuguese) but the people are neither Hispanic or Latin.
I don’t think the point made by the original comment was that Latin people are Latin because they share a culture together. But rather that within a Latin American country, what makes you Latin is your culture, not your genetics. You can be Black, White, Asian, Native etc, and still fall under the "Latin" umbrella. That’s what I understood personally, maybe my interpretation is wrong.
@@haywoodjablowmi1427 bro your american brain n3eds to comprehend this, the sole reason latin America is called latin america is because they speak languages derived from latin, The roman empir3 gave origin to latin language, and The roman empire was composed by italy romania france Portugal and spain, thes3 People are all considered latins...
@@tt67791 yes you're right, but also I think is location, language and shared culture or historical points. Because the French Guyana by location and language should be considered latin American, but as far as I know they aren't
@@tazylab6233 ofc they are xd, the problem is americans only think of latins as taco eaters with sombreros and mustache xd
As a Uruguayan, I feel more represented with Anya, she speaks Rioplatense Spanish perfectly, she lived in LATAM, knows the culture, loves dulce de leche and empanadas lol, etc... and the girl is not victimizing herself or saying that she is Latina every 5 minutes. 😂❤
Unlike Jenna who won't stfu about being Latina every 5 seconds
As an argentinian I approve your message. Un beso del otro lado del charco 😀.
Love Uruguay! I lived there for two years... Montevideo, Salto, Artigas, and finally Maldonado.
Love the people, learned the language, the food!! I would love to go back.
Spent a brief period in Argentina too, and thoroughly loved it. I was in a town in the north called Concordia, across the river from Salto. So beautiful!
Shout out to both countries!!
Hasta el Viggo Mortensen es mas latino que la Jenna y la Rachel, Vamo arriva la Ana las tortas-fritas y el mate !
Que lindo encontrar fellow Brett fans aca!!!
Brett es un American National treasure, igual que Anya lo es para nosotros; aunque Anya es bastante woke en su vida, lo único que no usa su latin card porque ella misma se considera muy blanca para ser latina, incluso dicho por ella misma... pero si no me equivoco, es bastante cercana a esa izquierda pestilente de USA...
To be honest Anya is whiter because she is from Argentina, and they are whiter there than other Latin American countries. LATINO DOESN'T MEAN DARK SKIN
Exactly, we're mestizos primarily
The word Latino actually means property of Rome. Because the Roman catholic church colonized our people. Hispanic means property of Spain. Argentina is a majority white country because they killed off 90% of the indigenous population. People forget that spanish is a white language. It's OK if Jenna does not speak Spanish her ancestors did not either.
En Jalisco México hay regiones como Arandas, Jalostotitlán, Lagos de Moreno y muchas regiones más, llenas de gente blanca y ojo de color.
Exactly, make it a shirt. Latino doesn't mean dark skin!! This host think that being white is something superior, "I'm too white..." ..?
es obvio que la Argentina anya es blanca como una buena parte de Argentinos
incluso ingleses la descubrieron cuando era joven y la pidieron para modelar luego un director de cine britanico le propuso que protagonice su pelicula sobre una familia britanica de la epoca medieval con nexos a la brujeria
encima aparte la llamaron para otra pelicula sobre nordicos "Northman" para que veas....
no conozco de otra actriz latina que haya causado interes a los ingleses como Anya, excepto Olivia Hussey otra media Argentina
This is a perfect example of "confidence is quiet, insecurity is loud"
I disagree. It's what was ingrained in them on how to see themselves
Yea dude it’s sucks. 21 and 22? Who isn’t insecure at that age? Vs Anya who is 27.
Eh depends on the situation but yea
In Argentina we love anya so much bc we see the love and massive respect she has for our country, she has never used the "latinxxxxxsgd" etiquette for anything, and still she just shows how big is the impact that Argentina has in her life, Rachel and jenna are the same people that for years try to get attention for being "latinx", even Rachel who has a colombian mom, everytime she tries to speak Spanish she does it with a Puerto rican accent that she probably learned from west side story.
White colonizers will colonize I guess. Also making fun of people your ancestors displaced is right on par with you European Argentinians.
Taylor-Joy is British, no one uses Latino, Latina or even Latinx here, why would they? Are you under the impression she is an American? She speaks English with a British Accent.
@@gerarddearie-zd2gb she's not British, she was born in Miami. And she also speaks rioplatense spanish bc she was raised in argentina and her accent is British bc she has moved constantly with her parents
@@SnapeArgentocuando escuchas el acento de annya es obvio que se crio en argentina
@@gerarddearie-zd2gbanya was born in Miami because her argentinian family was on vacations, right after that she moved to Argentina and was raised her first years there. Spanish, rioplatense spanish is her first language and she comes here every holidays and vacations she's free for. She has british accent because after being primarily raised in Argentina she moved to London
Anya being extremely white, does not mean anything. Have you ever seen XUXA? She looks like a German princess. She's also 10.000% more Latina than Jenna. I've lived my whole life in Argentina. I'm white to the point that I can't receive direct sunlight without having serious burns.
I'm fair skinned Puerto Rican. The Europeans, especially Germans, ran to South America after WW2. So no surprised that it's mixed over there in Argentina, Brazil, etc.
Same, I am Chilean and I am extremely white. Latino is not a race.
Ya sabes, estadounidenses pensando que debes de lucir como Spirit Gonzales para ser latino, como si españa no hubiera dejado descendencia desde que llegaron a lo que hoy es latinoamericana
@@blueelf217 it should be noted that most of the european migration (germans, italians, polish, etc.) to Brazil and neighboring countries happened in the 19th and early 20th centuries, so they are even more integrated into the latin culture than the small amount of europeans who came after WW2
Xuxa is German by heritage...
I don't understand why Americans insist that not knowing your "supposed-to-be" native language doesn't matter. it does matter.
Why? 🤔
@@diegojavier8276 there's no way to read your literature and history, communicate with your people, understand/experience the society and connect with the culture first hand if you don't speak the language. if you don't know the language, all you'll learn is going to be something that someone taught you.
@@agdistisattis6923yes and in a different language there is sayings that have a deeper meaning that you could only understand by knowing that language
@@agdistisattis6923She still remains Latin, I really have no clue why people continue to hate, it’s like some of them stalk celebrities to hate on them for the sake of hating as a profession, leave them alone focus on you. As a South African born and raised, I can speak some of my languages conversationally, but before I knew how to speak those languages that didn’t make me less of a South African of Zulu and Botswana descent. Calm down and keep your pants on. God bless.
@@Cheese_Oreos_Beetroot I'm not hating anybody, as you're offended so much by my opinion something is up i guess.
As an argentinian, of course, I feel more represented by Anya than Jenna... But it's weird to me that Jenna is seen by everyone and herself as latina when she was born and raised in USA and never even learned Spanish... That's a very US-american mindset if you ask me 🤷🏻♂️
Edit: The HUGE problem here is that US citizens misuse language... words like "America", "Americans" and "Latinos" are distorted and uprooted from their true meaning. Are the rest of us supposed to accept their definitions only because of their political, economic and cultural influence? I don't think so.
When you are raised in the US with Hispanic parents you have a wildly different cultural upbringing than your peers causing you to feel like a foreigner in your own country, which is why they identify more with being Latino.
@@crisp7575 but their not that's the thing...
Because she is latina....
Because in America, your ethnic background defines your identity instead of the place you are from. A non-Spanish speaker with Hispanic roots who was born in America is definitely a Hispanic or Latino.
@@johnhillescobar Well, aren't Canada, and Brazil in America since it's in the American continent? 🤔.....
Anya has a near perfect Spanish, and she talks with a lovely Argentinian accent. She makes an ocassional mistake here and there, understandable in someone who's spent most of her life in English speaking environments - sadly, languages do wear over time if you do not keep using them
I agree, ella habla Espanol perfectamente❤
Al menos anya habla español.. Ortega ni una palabra sabe,
The argentinian accent is very ugly actually
Anya’s native language is actually Spanish
" near perfect "??. She speaks as any native
I’m Argentinian born with Uruguayan parents.
I was raised in Sydney , Australia 🇦🇺 ..
when I speak in English I have an Australian accent.
When I speak I Spanish I have a Rio platense accent.
I’m bi lingual , I read and write in both English and Spanish.
I am fortunate enough to have parents that speak to me in Spanish .
I wasn’t allowed to speak English at home .
As a child I hated it as an adult now I feel blessed that my parents stuck to the values and taught me Spanish.
As a fellow Argentinian your parents must hate that you're UN CAMPEON DEL MUNDO....JAJAJAJA VAMOS ALBICELESTE PAPA!!!!
As a white "Latino" I feel incredibly underrepresented in the media. You don't see white hispanics represented anywhere. In American movies, commercials, etc- the characters/actors are always brown/ish. On another note, I'm Uruguayan and speak with the same accent as Anya. Other hispanics have a hard time understanding Rioplatense Spanish. Especially if they're not native Spanish speakers.
Y luego vez a estadounidenses poniendo que "están cansados de los latinos blancos" lo que me saca bastante de onda, porque de dónde? Si apenas he visto a hispanos blancos en producciones "americanas"
"I feel very proud to be Mexican. I didn't have the opportunity to learn Spanish as a girl but it's never to late to get in touch with your roots." -Selena Quintanilla-Perez
Wait, doesn't she had a lot of musics in spanish?
@@cupcakedoce956 she does but she didn't learn until much later in life
🙄 I think it total BS to say in order to be Latina enough you must speak Spanish. Furthermore to act like all Latin culture is the same is all totally foolish and clearly coming from people who know nothing about the various different cultures with the collective countries. I am Puerto Rican and Colombian born and raise in NY and culturally there may be similarities but our food, customs, even language is different similar sure but not exactly the same. The term Latino is in fact an oversimplification.
@@NicoleMarie251Totally agree. Language is not even a quarter of what makes up culture
Nah I disagree with above comments. Language may not be all there is to culture, but for sure it is big part of it.
No offense, but arguing the opposite just sounds like an excuse for themselves to disregard the irony mentioned in the video.
Language is a more important common denominator than ethnicity. If you move to another country and learn a language and speak it very well, people don't care as much about your ethnicity. They will accept you. If you don't speak the language but look like the locals, you won't be accepted. This is true for (almost) any country.
True, language is everything. If someone has other color but speaks like me I see them as part of my country. Foreigners are the ones who have accents regardless of how they look
If we are talking about a western culture, yes. Eastern cultures not so much, ethnicity probably is the biggest common denominator
That's why the United States tried by all means to destroy Spanish in Puerto Rico. Thankfully, they didn't succeed, although they did manage to achieve it, for example, in the Philippines.
@@joseedilthat’s actually a good point, it depends on where you are and the local culture towards foreigners.
@@joseedilWestern culture is too welcoming and individualistic for its own good. It’s a major factor in why the West is dying.
As a Puertorican and native Spanish speaker living in the US there hasn’t been many conversations where I feel the need to insert my culture and heritage. I also travel twice a year to PR, like it’s so easy, can’t imagine loving your country so much, being so proud and having the means to visit but not doing so 🤔
🤔 Excellent points @Shevegan. Excellent!
PRs are technically American 🙄
@@acappellacris2134 technically? Lol. We’re born American citizens, yes. Not sure what your point is.
@@shevegan4302 that Puerto Ricans should not be considered Latinos. Hispanic, yes 100% but Latinos I don’t know about that.
@@acappellacris2134porque? Porque somos colonia de los Estados Unidos de America y tenemos ciudadanía americana? Read a book dude even people from Spain call them self Latinos and they aren’t even close to latin America, but if we go by geography Puerto Rico is part of Central America not North America and if it is because our citizenship allowed me to say that all of “Latinos” wouldn’t be part of it since they all have different citizenship so please stop being baboso. quieres una chacletada para que veas si soy o no latina?
Anya even has the accent from Argentina I'm Mexican alot of people from Argentina look white that's normal and I don't need representation I want the best person for the job
I'm Argentinian. I met Anya because I crossed paths with her on the streets last time she was here. She's so humble and she's as Argentinian as Messi, Maradona, Dulce de leche and Asado.
I love Anya Taylor-Joy. She’s just a magnificent actress and just appears more “normal” than other Hollywood actors. The fact that she’s even getting married when there’s like a divorce crisis in Hollywood attests to that. And when I found out she is Argentinian, I loved her even more because she’s doesn’t make it her whole personality.
Rachel and Jenna are frauds. It’s fine if they actually have a deep sense of love for their heritage, but the fact that they claim to fight for “Hispanic representation” is laughable. Just be a good actress.
I was born and raised in America. Both my parents immigrated from Nicaragua. I’m not fluent in Spanish but I promise you I know more Spanish than those two. And I don’t use my “Hispanic card” (whatever that is) to claim oppression. I’m just a normal guy with Hispanic roots.
"divorce crisis"? That's been going on since the birth of Hollywood!
I feel like some actresses pull the heritage card because they’re just told to by PR. It’s just a fad.
Is like Brett Cooper said that there nothing wrong with saying you are heritage but if you didn't grow up in that country why are you going all this time saying"I am proud to represent Puerto Rico culture but I don't know Puerto Rican culture".Comes off as hipocritical because how can you represent something you don't know.
Hispanic is not a race or ethnicity dude. David Beckham can rightly call himself Hispanic because of long relationship Spain.
@@michaelrivera8360exactly my thoughts
Honestly at this moment even Matt Damon represents Latins much better. He embraced the language and culture thanks to his wife. His children were raised under the Argentinian culture and he made the conscious decision to learn the language, so he could be part of the multi-cultural family
noooooo. I would make them both sing: YO TOMO LICOR, YO TOMO CERVEZA Y ME GUSTAN LAS CHICASSSSS , LA CUMBIA ME DIVIERTE Y MESITAAAAAAAAAA♪ and I bet Anya does it better
The irony is, these same people tried to cancel him for being more conservative than other Hollywood actors. Yet he seems far more actually accepting of people than others.
Oh that’s cool
Well, if you are going by that account then John Wayne was much more Spanish than Matt Damon. Also from his wife's side but he shot movies in those areas, chiefly Mexico, and employed many spanish-speaking actors. His name has been tarnished by one stupid journalistic piece in Playboy and the fact he was an American patriot. For those claiming "draft dodging", he was old. He was born in 1907 and would have been in his late 30s during WWII.
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I can only speak for myself. My parents are from Puerto Rico. They taught me Spanish. When I reached adulthood, I noticed I was not speaking it as well as I'd liked. I also got comments from other Latinos that my Spanish was not great, or that I spoke too much Spanglish. I worked my butt off to improve my Spanish. At one point I spent over 2 years only watching Spanish television programs at home. I sat in front of the T.V. with a pen and paper and a dictionary writing down all of the words and phrases I did not understand. This was before high speed internet and UA-cam. Sometimes I had to call my mom and ask her what certain words meant. I had notebooks full of notes and I would read them every night. My Spanish now is very good but I never stop practicing and trying to learn new words. If you really want to, you can learn it.
As Argentinians, Anya makes us proud, not only for her constant affection for our country, for our Spanish-speaking culture, but also for her humility and friendliness. I like to believe that this has a lot to do with its true multi-cultural nature; and not posturing like others.😏
Proud for what? She's just an actress
@@lleh3712 im not proud of having Anya in anyway but it feels nice to have more people that knows your culture, and she really knows it, not like the others. We still have some other actors like Viggo Mortensen for example, he really is connected to Argentina.
@lautarovazquez3193 The average person really doesn't know that some people just think she's American (technically she is)
@@lleh3712 What's wrong with an actress praising Argentina??
The fact that Anya uses "Marido" (the word we commonly use instead of "esposo") adds some years to my life (?) Oh Anya 🇦🇷
Your comment made me laugh xD I hope you will enjoy those extra years, LOL! Btw, where I live you usually use "esposo" when you're legally married and "marido" when you're just living together with no legal papers. Isn't it funny how it's the same language but the meaning depends on where you're from? 🙈
That’s why when I was younger I confused marido for being husband 😂
@@umhi5743 No confusion, is exactly what it meant.
it's what it means? @@umhi5743
Because Argentines are Europeans, not Latinos.
As an Argentinian I always LMAO when I listen to "latinas" trying to speak Spanish in movies. Except Anya, she's amazing.
You realize there are other Spanish dialects besides Argentinian dialect right? Non-Argentinean Spanish is valid…
Yes but they are not on our level. Other accents sound horrible@@basicallyno1722
@@basicallyno1722 Me parece que no entendiste nada capo
@@basicallyno1722 I'm not argentinian and I totally understand what the other person tried to say... Los hispanohablantes sabemos cuándo alguien no sabe hablar correctamente el español, incluso con tantos acentos diferentes, no necesitan tener el mismo acento que tú para que los reconozcas como verdaderos latinos.
Tipico que lo diga un Argentino 😂😂😂
My cousin’s daughter, also Argentinian of Northern Italian background, is blond and blue eyes, and frankly looks Northern European, she works in NYC at a large corporation, they brought a WOKE minority person to speak about cultural expropriation and other woke things , and she was reprimanded for speaking Spanish , because she looks white. WTF, that is her native language! She didn’t argue , she likes her job.
It should have been as easy as explaining she is argentinian. Not that it should matter.
As a Dutchie, I say we would totally accept you, especially since 97% of us speak English (besides Nederlands/Dutch) anyways
I recently toured the Mid-West and was surprised by how many people said they have Dutch heritage, which was rather wholesome.
I think Americans tend to be more focused on heritage exactly because they're often so far from their roots, and that's fine. Making it your whole personality, frankly... is cringe. With that said groetjes uit Nederland, bedankt voor de interessante videos elke dag en blijf zo door gaan!
Hi, I'm one of those Midwesterners with Dutch roots. 👋 My great grandpa immigrated from the Netherlands, my grandpa still keeps in contact with some of his cousins from the motherland. You'll definitely find a lot more Dutch immigrant Pride in the West Michigan area. We even have a city called Holland with a Dutch village built into it as a tourist trap, lol.
jouw moeder heeft kanker
@@Snow-Willow was looking for this comment! Us Mid-West Michiganders are still very proud of the culture even though 80% only knows three words Dutch. My grandma has a mug that maps out how all the families are connected (Oliebollen anyone?)
Yes in the Netherlands we have a beautiful mix of cultures I’m proud to be Dutch as well as African and my kids are Suriname 😅 and my husband American!!!
@@Snow-WillowIn Pennsylvania there are Dutch roots as well not sure the amish
Omg thank you for bringing attention to this! I’ve seen it all my life lol. I’m a fairer skinned Latina, Venezuelan heritage and Spanish was my first language too. People are very quick to dismiss me embracing my culture because I don’t “look” it, including other Latinos. But most of the more-Latino-looking Latinos I encounter don’t speak Spanish at all 😅
There’s millions of white Latinas
It crazy people associate a "look" with a culture only proving that they have no clue about cultures. Also crazy that people would criticize you for your culture because you don't fit into their small little idea of what you "should" look like. It's difficult navigating the modern fools of society.
Dark skinned Latinos are super hateful towards white skinned Latinos
pretty sure the latinos who say you dont look latina didnt group in latinoamerica cuz there its not a "look" for latinos, there its black, white, asian, indian etc, im venezolano too, born and raised in venezuela, im white skin, my sister its what americans will call "lightskin black", same my older brother but the older of the 4 its white like me, my cousins are black for my mama side of the family, she its morena, we got asian family in the north of the country cuz a cousing of my grandmom marry an asian dud, latino its culture, i cant denied your roots as latino but i cant call you latino if you cant speak the lenguage, you dont know your country flavors or music, god alot dont even know what countries share border with the one their parents came from...
*anti-racist pulls out colour swatches* "Clearly this is a case of cultural appropriation. You are no longer allowed to speak Spanish"
Anya Taylor-Joy is English, Scottish, and Argentinian and she's played characters who were American, English, and Russian...because she's a damn good actress! Loved her in The Witch, Split, Last Night in Soho, The Menu, and she did the best she could with New Mutants. (Haven't seen Queen's Gambit but heard good things)
She has Spanish in her too.
pls go watch Queens Gambit! I watched it twice ❤ really good
@@dangercat9188Yes from both Parents One is from Argentina from father Side, and mother Side is Barcelona, Spain, shoot she is Latina, Hispanic, and loves Spanish from Argentina, and dont forget we have all different colors as Hispanic and Latino
@@orehsogan8470Anya is 100% european. 75% british isles/french, 25% Spain. Her family lived in argentina for a while, that’s all.
Queens Gambit is amazing!!!
Jenna represents Mexican Americans, not even actual Mexicans or other Hispanics.
Her parents are from Puerto Rico
I’m a white-as-snow Mexican, born and raised in Mexico, and I’ve always felt like those born in the US (from any heritage, but born and raised in the US) are almost ashamed of just saying they’re American so they make this huge deal about being Latinos or Italians, or any other thing, or their skin color; but they’ve never set foot in those countries or know ANYTHING about them other than what they’ve been told and assume. And then they have the nerve to speak for us and pretend they know what being actually Mexican (for example) is like, when in reality they wouldn’t survive two seconds in the countries they’re claiming as their own. Their own country is America and they have to learn to be proud of that.
¡Absolutamente perfecto! Y fue muy bien dicho.
I don't think your perspective is accurate at all lol. Nationality and ethnicity are 2 different things. I was born in America indeed but I grew up speaking Spanish, eating Mexican food, watching Mexican telenovelas, etc so I do heavily identify with being Mexican/Latino. I've been multiple times as well. I also believe being "proud of your country" is dumb, you should be proud of things you accomplish not things you had no input in, like the country you're born in.
I don’t need Jenna to represent me as a latina. There’s Shakira, Sofia Vergara, and Salma Hayek.
@@55CINCO55 dicho justo como gringo, peleando por querer separarte de ser gringo solo porque has comido tacos y visto telenovelas, y porque entiendes español. Mi mamá es Chilena y tengo pasaporte chileno también, y también he visitado Chile pero nunca diría que soy igual que mis primas que crecieron en Chile, ni diría que me identifico con esa experiencia o cultura. Es súper diferente vivir toda tu infancia o vida en un lugar y crecer con todas las sutilezas de esa cultura, los problemas, los miedos, la forma de ser educado, etc. Haber visto telenovelas y comido comida mexicana no llega ni a la superficie de lo que es vivir día a día en México, los gringos mexicanos tuvieron muchísimas experiencias y ventajas por la decisión que tomaron sus papás de buscar una mejor vida en Estados Unidos. Y voltearse y decir que no quieres identificarte con eso también es insultar sus esfuerzos, en mi opinión.
@@natj-vs You're really dumb lol. You're acting like every experience is the same even within Mexico lmao. Do you understand what a culture is? It is indeed the language you speak, the food you eat, the entertainment you consume, etc. Of course I don't have 100% of the Mexican experience but you don't need to. A Mexican person who was born and raised in the Monterrey Metropolis will have a lot more in common with a Mexican American than they will with a Mexican person born in an indigenous village in the middle of the Chiapas Jungle. Not sure how you got the idea that I'm trying to separate myself from America or that I don't identify as being American. You can be part of multiple cultures and ethnicities you know that right?
Born and raised in Brazil, I speak both Portuguese and Spanish and must say that the language is a fundamental part of being immerse in a culture. I do not think that Jenna and Rachel have had a true Latin experience if they’ve always lived in the US and don’t understand the language, it does not matter how many Latin family members they are surrounded by. With the language comes music, popular culture, sayings, expressions, jokes… that help build a country’s identity. You even think differently in different languages.
Do you know what colonization is? As someone who is from the state of New Mexico where it’s majority Hispanic state most of us don’t speak Spanish especially the younger generation. This is because we became a state in 1912. And when we did become a state we literally got segregated and looked down on by other states for not speaking English so many young people don’t speak Spanish. We have a RICH culture in New Mexico that is very “Latino” & both those who speak Spanish and English take part in that culture. I recommend you visiting Santa Fe some time.
@@Lizardtheblizard I don’t think this the case of neither Jenna nor Rachel as they from California and Jersey and not even third generation. My great grandparents were French and German and that does not make me part of European culture. Its such a STRECH. Also I’m sure your culture is very rich in Santa Fe, and not less than ours, but it has been changed and there fore is a different culture. Language will ALWAYS be one of the main pillars of any culture.
Tell that to the Puerto Rican or Dominican diaspora.
True, I'm from Argentina, and let's be honest, if you want, you can.
I've lived in Portugal for 7 months last year and I've learned a lot of Portuguese, I've only studied it for 6 months.
I do believe that if she wants to connect with her roots and wave that flag, you must learn at least the basics.
@lizardtheblizars that’s exactly my grandfathers experience! Either they were going to be “too native” or “too Mexican” and each was absolutely dangerous. When he came back from Europe after world war 2 he still got SO much racism despite half of his family being native to the land (mestizo, half Spanish half native. The Spanish side was in New Mexico since the 1500s). He decided it was going to be easier for his kids if they just learned English.
This is a common latin-American experience. It’s crazy all of these people coming from other countries commenting on a specific Latino-American experience.
Jenna has the money to pay for the best spanish lessons if she wants to represent the whole community and not just the community living in the United States. She can also buy a map and learn the names of all the latin countries located in South America and Central America.
Pretty much what I thought if she truly wants to learn.
Right? Selena had to go thru this in the 90s, but she ACTUALLY put in the work & learned to speak fluent spanish in order to connect with her fans. And I am actually more impressed that, as an American citizen, that she speaks ENGLISH & not Spanish - like the rest of the illegal immigrants.
It’s hard growing up in a north American country and looking latina. It’s like being adopted, you don’t really fit in 100% anywhere. Still I’m fed up with this representative garbage. Give me good character development! Characters I can admire! And also there are a lot of latinos who speak English and they are very snobby towards speaking Spanish, like it’s beneath them. It’s ridiculous
@@pattyhansen7563 why do illegal immigrants have to speak English? Why does any Hispanic or Latino have to speak English?
@@jennifersenenko6755 English, if they are living in America. English, so that I, living in an English speaking country do not have to push #2 on my phone to talk about business. If I moved to Japan, I would be expected to speak & read Japanese to function in daily life. They would not cater to me. If they want to continue speaking Spanish in all of their daily affairs, they should reside in a Spanish speaking country. One of my friends came from Vietnam with her mother, as a child. Her mother has STILL refused to learn functional English. This forces my friend to do all of her medical & business affairs from afar. She is in effect her mother's personal translator. I think that is wrong. If she wanted to come here, she should learn to communicate with the people who were already here.
I've been all over Latin America, and there were 2 moments that were quite striking as I was trying to learn the language. The first time you see a person of Asian descent speaking fluent Porteño Spanish in Argentina and, the first time you encounter red-headed Latinas/Latinos. It just shows you how diverse the Latin world really is. Heck, most of the people we regard as Latino in the US, are really Native American at heart...they just happen to have been imbued with Spanish language and culture.
I kind of feel for Jenna Ortega. Her speaking about being insecure about claiming her heritage sounded very sincere and I believe that, had her PR team not pushed her down that road, she would have found a way to deal with it that isn't this dishonest. Obviously, she's an adult so I'm not trying to claim that she isn't responsible for this at all, but to me it seems like this is part of a "brainwashing" trend that can be seen on both extremes of the political spectrum. A lot of today's discourse could be described as "learned outrage". People get upset over nothing. People cry because their identities aren't respected, they cry because other people have identities they don't understand, they cry because there are too few black people in the media, they cry because there are too many, they cry because some women want to be stay at home mums, they cry because some women want careers. It's ridiculous. Most of it could be solved if people just minded their own business. I don't have to stop eating cake because my neighbour doesn't like cake, but I'm also not allowed to force-feed him cake. As easy as that.
And this fake outrage is so ingrained in society now that it creates people like this who aren't allowed to take time to form their own opinions but are forced to adapt aggressive mindsets to the point where they think they're actually theirs.
this is a very good point and needs more discussion in general
I 100% agree with this. That interview felt like she was letting her guard down a bit and that her PR team are very much pressuring her to focus on her heritage
Point out your neighbor and I'll force-feed him the cake.
EXACTLY
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In my opinion as a Latina (Dominican) language is the biggest player in connecting to my heritage. I mean, the Latino culture is BIG on music which of course, you need to know Spanish to understand. Our foods have names that don’t even have translations. Also, we usually have big united families and having elders around, you need to speak Spanish cause most of them don’t speak English well or don’t even want to. So, language is not everything, you can still enjoy music and food without it, but I believe language is at least 50%.
@NightOwl0230 she didn't say it connects you to a whole continent but to a certain region or country. I am neither Latina nor Spanish but I am trying to learn Spanish first because I like the music, I like to understand whati listen to not just vibe along with the melody. So I don't see why Jenna Ortega doesn't make any efforts to learn Spanish if non Latinos are learning it.
I know. As a Dominican and Haitian, Haitian culture is more accepted in my family; although we have family in Dominican Republic. And it doesn’t help I’m from America. I know 0% Spanish but I’m taking Spanish 1 in school because I also understand it’s a big part in culture.
Yo creo que lo que realmente se crítica, es que algunas actrices hacen gala (presumen) de una cultura de la que carecen, con el fin de atraer más público.
Being latino is more focused 100% on language than ethnicity or heritage. Since the term refers to speakers of latin or romance languages in the american continent.
Btw say hello to Rudecindo, great guy!
It’s the same language man. Slang is different even in different cities inside the US. That means language is in fact 50% of it
Both my parents migrated here from Mexico. We Hispanics do not care about representation. Yes it can make us feel appreciated and seen, take a million miles away as an example, but a lot of the time we don’t care.
I grew up in Mexico, everyone in a telenovela is white lol. No one gives a crap, we got other s*** to worry about
I grew up in Mexico, everyone in a telenovela is white lol. No one gives a crap, we got other s*** to worry about
Same!
That's because we have our own shows, from our origin countries. These things are American, so we should stop asking them to represent everyone else. They speak English, do American things and grew up with the culture, even if their parents are latinos, they are American and that's ok
😅 Mexicans are indigenous Americans and mestizo NOT Hispanics Not Latino. These types of people only call themselves Hispanic or Latino as trending propaganda for social status amongst culturally ignorant people such as North Americans of the USA/ Canada. Can uneducated countries please learn REAL Latin history! Speaking the Spanish language does not magically make some one “Latino”. Just like speaking English does Not magically make people Anglo saxons despite of one’s actual cultural origin. 🙄THE CULTURA LATINA, THE LATIN PEOPLE, THE LATINO (Latini) TRIBES, THE LATIN ETHNICITY ALL COME FROM ITALY! LATINO IS THE SOLE IDENTITY OF SOUTHERN EUROPEAN LATIN MEDITERRANEAN DIASPORA. Latin europe was Latinized by ROME ITALY hence how Latina italy got the name Latina. & HISPANIC (Hispania) is literally the Latin language MEANING SPAIN NOT the NATIVE AMERICANS they Colonized. Latin America got its name SOLELY and ONLY to mean the part of the Americas CONQUERED by LATIN EUROPE and that is all it will EVER MEAN. Latin ORIGIN, HISTORY& people are NON INTERCHANGEABLE. STOP THE CULTURAL THEFT OF MY PEOPLE& OUR ANCESTRY. BRAINWASHED AMERICAN/ MOSTLY NORTH AMERICAN CULTURAL APPROPRIATION & CULTURAL THEFT FOR "PROFIT AND GAIN" WILL NEVER BE LATINO. CULTURAL APPROPRIATION EXIST BECAUSE THOSE LIKE YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE AND WILL CONTINUE TO BENEFIT FROM THE CULTURAL THEFT TOWARDS US TRUE LATIN PEOPLE AND OUR HISTORICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS! AND US TRUE LATINS ARE & HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MULTI GENETICALLY MIXED ETHNIC PEOPLE DUE TO OUR GENETIC CONTRIBUTORS FROM OUR MIDDLE EASTERN (ASIAN), NORTHERN AFRICAN, AND BALKAN GYPSIE DNA. THERE ARE NO "WHITE" LATINS. JUST MORE ASSIMILATION . SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICANS AND MEXICANS ARE NATIVE AMERICANS, MESTIZOS, CASTIZOS, PARDOS, ZAMBOS, AND PURE SUB SAHARAN AFRICANS. NOT LATINS, NOT LATIN BLOOD, THEREFORE NOT LATINO. IN SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICA AND MÉXICO THE ONLY PEOPLE CALLED LATINO AND HISPANIC ARE US SOUTHERN EUROPEANS OF LATIN MEDITERRANEAN ORIGIN. OBVIOUSLY THE SAME IN LATIN EUROPE. PUSHING AND CONTRIBUTING TO BRAINWASHED NORTH AMERICAN MISAPPROPRIATION OF FOREIGN TERMS SUCH AS LATIN/LATINO AS TRENDING PROPAGANDA FOR SOCIAL STATUS TO APPEAR MORE DESIRABLE DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE CONTINUING CONTRIBUTIONS OF CULTURAL THEFT. THE TERM LATINO DERIVES FROM THE TERM LATINI, THE LATINI WHERE THE VERY FIRST LATIN TRIBE TO EXIST FROM ITALY! LATINI IS PLURAL MEANING MORE THAN ONE LATINO! AND LATINO IS SINGULAR FOR LATINI MEANING ONE LATINO. THE SAME WITH LATINA AND LATINE. ALL TERMS CREATED BY THE TRUE LATIN PEOPLE OF ITALY. THE AMERICAN MUTILATION AND CULTURAL RAPE OF LATIN EUROPEAN TERMS NEEDS TO BE EXPOSED.
This is the perfect example for Americans to understand once and for all that being "Latino" is something cultural, not something racial. Just because you are brown, you are not automatically Latino.
It's like when an American born and raised in Mississippi, calls himself Scottish just because he has a grandfather who was from there.
Jenna's ability is what is sort of known in the American Latino community as "No Sabo" (name origins coming from an incorrect pronunciation of "I don't know" in Spanish) and it does make you pretty nervous because No Sabo kids are treated quite cruelly by other Latino's.
why? She looks racial ambiguous to most of Latinos? I thought she'd be more accepted as white latina
But then why is she trying to speak for latinos? The thing is, it's usually no sabo kids who actually don't know much about any latino culture. They are AMERICAN and should just be ok with that. It's fine just because they grew up eating latin food doesn't mean they NEED to over identify as latinos
I wouldn’t say cruelly, more so they don’t take you serious
Can uneducated countries please learn REAL Latin history! Speaking the Spanish language does not magically make some one “Latino”. Just like speaking English does Not magically make people Anglo saxons despite of one’s actual cultural origin. 🙄THE CULTURA LATINA, THE LATIN PEOPLE, THE LATINO (Latini) TRIBES, THE LATIN ETHNICITY ALL COME FROM ITALY! LATINO IS THE SOLE IDENTITY OF SOUTHERN EUROPEAN LATIN MEDITERRANEAN DIASPORA. Latin europe was Latinized by ROME ITALY hence how Latina italy got the name Latina. & HISPANIC (Hispania) is literally the Latin language MEANING SPAIN NOT the NATIVE AMERICANS they Colonized. Latin America got its name SOLELY and ONLY to mean the part of the Americas CONQUERED by LATIN EUROPE and that is all it will EVER MEAN. Latin ORIGIN, HISTORY& people are NON INTERCHANGEABLE. STOP THE CULTURAL THEFT OF MY PEOPLE& OUR ANCESTRY. BRAINWASHED AMERICAN/ MOSTLY NORTH AMERICAN CULTURAL APPROPRIATION & CULTURAL THEFT FOR "PROFIT AND GAIN" WILL NEVER BE LATINO. CULTURAL APPROPRIATION EXIST BECAUSE THOSE LIKE YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE AND WILL CONTINUE TO BENEFIT FROM THE CULTURAL THEFT TOWARDS US TRUE LATIN PEOPLE AND OUR HISTORICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS! AND US TRUE LATINS ARE & HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MULTI GENETICALLY MIXED ETHNIC PEOPLE DUE TO OUR GENETIC CONTRIBUTORS FROM OUR MIDDLE EASTERN (ASIAN), NORTHERN AFRICAN, AND BALKAN GYPSIE DNA. THERE ARE NO "WHITE" LATINS. JUST MORE ASSIMILATION . SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICANS AND MEXICANS ARE NATIVE AMERICANS, MESTIZOS, CASTIZOS, PARDOS, ZAMBOS, AND PURE SUB SAHARAN AFRICANS. NOT LATINS, NOT LATIN BLOOD, THEREFORE NOT LATINO. IN SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICA AND MÉXICO THE ONLY PEOPLE CALLED LATINO AND HISPANIC ARE US SOUTHERN EUROPEANS OF LATIN MEDITERRANEAN ORIGIN. OBVIOUSLY THE SAME IN LATIN EUROPE. PUSHING AND CONTRIBUTING TO BRAINWASHED NORTH AMERICAN MISAPPROPRIATION OF FOREIGN TERMS SUCH AS LATIN/LATINO AS TRENDING PROPAGANDA FOR SOCIAL STATUS TO APPEAR MORE DESIRABLE DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE CONTINUING CONTRIBUTIONS OF CULTURAL THEFT. THE TERM LATINO DERIVES FROM THE TERM LATINI, THE LATINI WHERE THE VERY FIRST LATIN TRIBE TO EXIST FROM ITALY! LATINI IS PLURAL MEANING MORE THAN ONE LATINO! AND LATINO IS SINGULAR FOR LATINI MEANING ONE LATINO. THE SAME WITH LATINA AND LATINE. ALL TERMS CREATED BY THE TRUE LATIN PEOPLE OF ITALY. THE AMERICAN MUTILATION AND CULTURAL RAPE OF LATIN EUROPEAN TERMS NEEDS TO BE EXPOSED.
@@Kaybye555and in places like brainwashed America especially North America it is people who FACTUALLY are NOT of Latin origin speaking for the Latino people such as those like you and the women in this video. Fyi America INCLUDES SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICA AND MEXICO. Can uneducated countries please learn REAL Latin history! Speaking the Spanish language does not magically make some one “Latino”. Just like speaking English does Not magically make people Anglo saxons despite of one’s actual cultural origin. 🙄THE CULTURA LATINA, THE LATIN PEOPLE, THE LATINO (Latini) TRIBES, THE LATIN ETHNICITY ALL COME FROM ITALY! LATINO IS THE SOLE IDENTITY OF SOUTHERN EUROPEAN LATIN MEDITERRANEAN DIASPORA. Latin europe was Latinized by ROME ITALY hence how Latina italy got the name Latina. & HISPANIC (Hispania) is literally the Latin language MEANING SPAIN NOT the NATIVE AMERICANS they Colonized. Latin America got its name SOLELY and ONLY to mean the part of the Americas CONQUERED by LATIN EUROPE and that is all it will EVER MEAN. Latin ORIGIN, HISTORY& people are NON INTERCHANGEABLE. STOP THE CULTURAL THEFT OF MY PEOPLE& OUR ANCESTRY. BRAINWASHED AMERICAN/ MOSTLY NORTH AMERICAN CULTURAL APPROPRIATION & CULTURAL THEFT FOR "PROFIT AND GAIN" WILL NEVER BE LATINO. CULTURAL APPROPRIATION EXIST BECAUSE THOSE LIKE YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE AND WILL CONTINUE TO BENEFIT FROM THE CULTURAL THEFT TOWARDS US TRUE LATIN PEOPLE AND OUR HISTORICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS! AND US TRUE LATINS ARE & HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MULTI GENETICALLY MIXED ETHNIC PEOPLE DUE TO OUR GENETIC CONTRIBUTORS FROM OUR MIDDLE EASTERN (ASIAN), NORTHERN AFRICAN, AND BALKAN GYPSIE DNA. THERE ARE NO "WHITE" LATINS. JUST MORE ASSIMILATION . SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICANS AND MEXICANS ARE NATIVE AMERICANS, MESTIZOS, CASTIZOS, PARDOS, ZAMBOS, AND PURE SUB SAHARAN AFRICANS. NOT LATINS, NOT LATIN BLOOD, THEREFORE NOT LATINO. IN SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICA AND MÉXICO THE ONLY PEOPLE CALLED LATINO AND HISPANIC ARE US SOUTHERN EUROPEANS OF LATIN MEDITERRANEAN ORIGIN. OBVIOUSLY THE SAME IN LATIN EUROPE. PUSHING AND CONTRIBUTING TO BRAINWASHED NORTH AMERICAN MISAPPROPRIATION OF FOREIGN TERMS SUCH AS LATIN/LATINO AS TRENDING PROPAGANDA FOR SOCIAL STATUS TO APPEAR MORE DESIRABLE DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE CONTINUING CONTRIBUTIONS OF CULTURAL THEFT. THE TERM LATINO DERIVES FROM THE TERM LATINI, THE LATINI WHERE THE VERY FIRST LATIN TRIBE TO EXIST FROM ITALY! LATINI IS PLURAL MEANING MORE THAN ONE LATINO! AND LATINO IS SINGULAR FOR LATINI MEANING ONE LATINO. THE SAME WITH LATINA AND LATINE. ALL TERMS CREATED BY THE TRUE LATIN PEOPLE OF ITALY. THE AMERICAN MUTILATION AND CULTURAL RAPE OF LATIN EUROPEAN TERMS NEEDS TO BE EXPOSED.
My girlfriend is Latina and she grew up speaking Spanish and English. She’s lost some of her Spanish over the years since moving away from her family but can still hold a conversation in Spanish that’s slightly more advanced than the basics. She’s also visited Mexico once or twice where her father grew up. But she doesn’t go around preaching about how Latina people need more representation. Does she get excited when an original character is Latin based? Absolutely. Keyword ORIGINAL. From what she’s told me she finds it offensive when people take characters and just change their race instead of being creative enough to create new characters and stories about people of Latin origin.
Bullshit, you can’t un-learn Spanish, specially if it was your first language as a kid
Love this point. I don't understand why Hollywood doesn't expand their source material to fairy tales from other cultures and represent those characters with people of those cultural backgrounds. You don't even have to make an original character in that sense anyway. Why rehash Grimm's tales with new races? Makes no sense. Our world is too connected to use the argument that you only ever knew about the European stories. An internet search could probably pull up some cool central American stories.
@@lunar.mermaid Hollowwood is a business, you overestimate the audience for "fairy tales form other cultures", its going to demand alot of investment, why bother if you can use already recognizable names and brands and simple race swap characters? Not like white people protect their cultural heritage, at least not yet.
Anya speaking about Argentina so beautifully warms my heart ❤
Le hace falta más 👃🏻 a esa argentina ja
The only thing I know as a real Latina (born, raised and living in Colombia) is that I’m freaking tired of gringos and people who’ve never set foot in Latam telling us what being Latin is and what’s not. And as philologist, I can tell you language is vital to understanding a culture. Anya is super Latina not only because she speaks perfect Spanish, but because she’s lived here, she’s immersed into our culture and she proofs it not by giving speeches about representation but about talking about Dulce de leche every time she can, for instance. The thing is, people from the US reduce culture and ethnicity to a skin color and it goes way beyond that, Latam is diverse in phenotypes, we come in every color, but what really unites us as Latinos is our culture. Jenna is estadounidense as it is. It’s about time for US people to accept themselves for where they were born in regardless of a skin color. If you were born and raised in the US that makes you estadounidense. Period. No need to claim any heritage from a place you don’t even know. The US is a diverse country and US people can come, as we Latinos ourselves do, in every color, shape or form.
As a Chilean girl, I grew up thinking Argentinian girls were mostly all blond beauties because of the particular type of argentinian tourist that came over on holiday to the beach.
So Anya fits perfectly with my odd childhood stereotyping 😂😅
chilena?? wena culiá jajajajajajjajaj
I could somewhat relate to Jenna because my mom never taught me Spanish growing up. I know a little from school, but I'm not yet fluent. But I'm still really proud of my Peruvian Heritage, and I am familiar with most of it other than the language.
Ritchie Valens, the guy who recorded the original La Bamba, actually did not speak Spanish, but he did a lot for Latinos in rock and roll. He probably would have done more if it weren't for the plane crash that killed him.
Richard Valenzuela, The record company insisted he us a stage name because they thought the white audience wouldn't accept an ethnic musician. Apparently, they never noticed the Anglo teenage girls go crazy every time he stepped on stage.
Im from Venezuela and all latinas are welcome to feel that way! The ones born in the US and the Ones that didn’t. Why are we trying to gatekeep our culture!? Lmao
As a non-spanish speaker Latina, I just want to clarify that you can infact be latina without speaking speanish, like us Brazilians, for example. But the fact that Jenna keeps talking about hispanic culture, that makes her not speaking spanish really bad 😬
Edit: I think some people are not understanding my point lol. I'm not saying that if you were born in the US from immigrant parents are also Latinos, what I'm saying is that ACTUAL LATINOS can speak other languages in Latin America, like Portuguese and French, bcs it's LATIN AMERICA, not Hispanic America. Me for example, I'm Latina, I'm from Brazil, but I speak Portuguese, not Spanish.
In Brazil we speak Brazilian! rsrsrsrs
@@cienciasatuariais4954 Brazilians speak Portuguese. I know that much.
Portuguese IS A LATIN LANGUAGE!
And guess where the words "latino" or "latina" came from?!
I was just about to comment the same think ksksksks
Exactly, I'm a non-Spanish speaking Latino too. I never liked Jenna Ortega because I figured that she's part of the woke mob and support the same things as they do. As much I'm proud of our heritage, I never insert it into every conversation all time like her.
Viva Anya Taylor!!! I hope some day she stars in an Argentinian film like Viggo Mortensen did in 2012 Todos tenemos un plan, both of them were raised in my country and speak in the Buenos Aires accent
As a child of the USA and of a father that is native Mexican I never learned Spanish and I ALWAYS felt I never properly represented Mexican American. Not my fault my dad didn’t teach me 🤷🏽♀️it reminds me of this time I was called in for a job interview and I was with all latinas. Later I was told they specifically wanted to hire more latinas because there was a growing Spanish speaking community. I was there with my yankee accent like “yup, I only speak English.” But don’t get it twisted: I still work as hard as a Mexican 😂
You're white washed ese. You not one of us no more
There are actually neurological benefits to learning it as an adult, since you would have a ready supply of family members to practice with periodically. our brains prefer things that are easy, so when we take up things that are not alone or a challenge it’s a great workout for the gray matter, not to mention that people trying to work on languages as adults are the coolest.😎 sigue practicando de vez en cuando en cualquiera oportunidad lo que haya parecido.
You can learn Spanish if you want. Its not that hard.
As long as you don't go around saying that you should be in more places to represent your culture more, or try to teach others what it's like to live immersed in Spanish culture. You won't be bothered, at most they will ask you if you speak Spanish, or know this or that, and some people will be a little surprised. The point is that you are no longer Latina, Latina. You are a descendant. The culture you grew up in is different.
I feel growing up, I related to the line of Selena's father in the bio pic Selena where he says "Mexican Americans have it tough. We have to be more Mexican than the Mexicans and more American than the Americans for them to accept us" I'm paraphrasing I think because it has been a while but it spoke to me and I felt rang true for forever lol
What about celebs like Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Sophia Vergara, Penelope Cruz, or even Christina Aguilera? There are and have been plenty of Latina women representing in music, movies and TV from the 90’s onwards and probably a lot more that I am missing. It’s not like she and Rachel are the first or doing the most.. I agree that it’s great to be proud of your heritage and upbringing, but like Brett said you don’t need to make it your whole personality.
Sophia is not part of this list. She IS Latinamerican. She was born in Colombia. Neither is Penelope. She was born in Spain, making her latina.
Don’t forget Grey DeLisle and Jessica Alba.
selena and demi crack me up bro. I used to be a huge fan of them when i was 10-12 years old and had no idea they were even half hispanic until out of nowhere they started talking about how proud they are to be latina.
@@moon66487 Penelope is not Latina Americana, which is what we're talking. She's hispanic and latin because of the language.
You can refer as latin countries even Italy and French for example, because their languages come from Latin.
Now, again, she's not the latina we're talking about. She's hispanic, at most.
@@blusheid2273 she's Latina, not Latin American. Exactly Italy, France, Portugal, etc. Are Latin countries. However, the term Latino/a is commonly used in reference to Latin Americans, but that doesn't make Spanish less Latinos. They're, just, not American.
Jenna Ortega is actually known for putting a lot of effort in her acting and refusing to compromise when writers want to insert agendas into writing that won’t match the character… I haven’t seen a Latina line for her. She probably talks about being Latina a lot because of the reporters and her agents wanting her to talk about it. Diversity is a buzz word now a days and everyone is obsessed with it.
I was a former fan of hers, and even back then she pushed the whole Latina thing heavily. I don't think her agents are pushing it on her, I genuinely think she's this way. She also supports every far-left thing under the sun, she's like planned parenthood's number one cheerleader lmfao. And as for the script that got blown out of the water because she actually wanted the screenplay to be more progressive and feminist, the bad kind. The writers themselves are actually pretty normal. Idk where the myth came from that Jenna is "based" and "chill" when she's obviously not, again I used to simp for her years ago, so I know and seen some wack shit from her. Main reason why i can't stand her now.
@@MichaelNVADELiterally none of what you said is true at all. “former fan” my ass 😭
This should be top comment
Exactly and specially ANYA TAYLOR surprised me so much a couple years ago because when she comes to mi city, Mexico city, she always speaks spanish fluently it is impressive!
As a latina born in Latin America, speaking spanish as my first language, IVE BEEN SAYING THIS.
Im often so annoyed by people that push this rhetoric when they don’t even know about the culture they come from. They use it for their benefit as to give themselves some sort of credibility when in reality you will never be like the people born in those countries. Even if you did speak the language. You will have never gone through the same experiences or the hardships, so why use my experience (that you’ve probably only heard of and don’t have the right perspective on) to make urself famous and advocate for the wrong (usually more lib) fixes? Its so upsetting..
The same way, American communists say to ME, a cuban that lived under Castro, that we don’t understand communism… America is filled with entitled teenagers (being 21 myself lol) that think they have some perspective on political topics only because they look a certain way. When in my opinion, you’re privileged by default on the global scale because u were lucky to he born in a free country. So WHY BRING THAT COUNTRY DOWN
The communism part omg. I hate seeing them talk about how great a concept it is. I actually saw a comment on Twitter the other day calling Castro 🤮 a hero to the cuban people. I’m not going to sit here and pretend I know what Cuba is like to live in. I’m first generation cuban American, I was born in Miami… but I always hear the stories of my family coming to the US and what they went through. Some of them can’t even talk about it 30+ years later.
To those people who have such a desire to live in a communist regime, I say go for it. Move to that country but do not bring that crap here. They’ll learn what it’s actually like and only then will they understand what immigrants of communist countries are talking about. Hearing what my family went through, there is genuine fear in me of ever having to live under a dictatorship. Those people are 100% crazy.
Damn preach hermanaaaa!
What the fuck are you saying? I’m Latino, don’t speak Spanish, was born in America (acknowledge the privilege although I was born poor), and I love our people. I’m highly educated and representing well. I WANT more representation in Hollywood for our people. Don’t fucking tell me I can’t have this opinion because I don’t speak Spanish. I don’t love our people any less than you. I want every Latino to be doing well. We might not share the same country experience but we share the same core of family first.
Qué basada
NO ONE CARESSS💀💀💀
I have british surname (Smith), and born in Argentina, I speak spanish and english... regardless that, I consider myself a Latino ... Agunte Anyaa carajo, la mejor ! y no curra con boludeces por el color de piel, lo latino es cultural, no racial. Hay latinos blancos, negros, amerindios, asiaticos, etc... So be at peace with God, may his light reach you all !!! Happy Chrismas !!!
I live in latin america, and Anya represents our culture better than anyone, the other girls are US born and raised
she represents a lot of latin america, but specifically Argentina, she is like a typical Porteña from Buenos Aires
I've been told that Argentina is a great place with great people. All the best from Cordoba, Argentina ⭐⭐⭐
For us, if you were not born or raised in a Latin country, you are not Latin. Here no one perceives their nationality through blood because there is a lot of diversity and mixture of different ethnicities. We feel represented by the similarities of the countries, the culture and even the way of thinking and seeing life is different from an American, we feel proud of it and seeing Jenna Ortega in Hollywood supposedly representing it is ironic because she does in the most American way possible that makes us laugh, she wants to represent us. Latinos think the same, but there are too many supposedly Latino people who defend her and its because they are Americans too.
You are a white Latino arent you?
It's just confusing because chicanos call themselves "latinos" all the time, but they are still gringos.
THIS! I tried forever to fit in with my cousins in mexico. They were never cool with me claiming to be mexican. As soon as i stopped trying to fit in with them and start saying i was american and not mexican, theyd flip out and say QUE TE CRES GRINGO AHORA?! Which fucking is it then? You cant have it both ways. If you dont claim us then you must accept us as gringos!
@@Mr.Pop0 If you were raised in the US then you're a gringo. Your cousins are wrong if they think you are mexican.
@@Mr.Pop0 As a Latina, and I don't say this to brag but to give my point of view, I believe that anyone should answer only for their place of origin. If you were born in the USA and raised there, you are from there, it does not matter if your parents, grandparents or great-grandparents come from somewhere else, each person has the right to have their own cultural identity. You are not your parents, nor your grandparents, nor should you be responsible for another family member who has a different ethnic origin than yours, nor is it your obligation. My parents come from completely different places from where I am, they grew up in the fields (they are different provinces, which in the USA, would be like states) and I grew up in the city, yes it is a stupid example and it is not like they came from another country, but my point is that they have an origin that does not It has nothing to do with mine because they have a different culture and upbringing than mine and they chose for my life to be somewhere else and that is where my cultural identity was formed. Obviously the roots of our relatives deserve all the respect and recognition from us because we are part of the same legacy. My point is: Be proud of where you come from.
The only reason celebrities who belong to a minority community talk about the oppressions of their community is to boost their own opportunities and not because they care about their community 🤷
If you want to give them the benefit of the doubt; There is also a lot of pressure on a lot of them to champion that cause, whether they believe in it or not, and some of them might have a legitimate fear of letting people down.
I'm not saying that's the case here, but it is a possibility that should be mentioned.
Can I get an "amen" from Reverend Al and Reverend Jesse? LOL
Its such bullshit when she talks about latin representation especially when we all grew up with JLo, Salma Heyak, Sophia Vergara, Eva Longoria, Rosalina Sanchez, etc. She sounds dumb to everyone with a working brain
@@rolandswift4311 I'm in the same camp, that and Jenna being the massive progressive that she is, is probably due to her social environment being Hollywood ever since she was a pre-teen. I don't 120% blame her for her cringe, but damn, she's 21 and she can't wake tf up already? Maybe it really is hard to break out of that victimhood/woke mindset.
You missed with this one.
The thing is that Argentina has a strong hard sense of belonging. People who are somehow related to Argentina (even a little) always feel some kind of immense pride about it. There are some celebrities like Viggo Mortensen who is very involved (very crazily) with a popular soccer team called San Lorenzo (St. Lawrence) and also has a very strong standpoint, although privately, in Argentina's politics.
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almost all if not all countries used to have this sentiment but now some have lost it
however i know that mexico and spain still have this sentiment, a sentiment many americans seem to have forgotten
😂
the pope is also cuervooooo
Genia. Saludos desde Tucumán-Argentina
It's definitely the PR team pushing it and also media questioning and editing to highlight it. When she speaks directly about it she expresses how she feels about it, before she gets positioned by those around her. She reminds me of an ex-boyfriend who has parents from Puerto Rico who moved to the mainland US right before he was born and forbid him from learning Spanish because they wanted him to assimilate. He was in his 30s before he finally spent a Summer in PR in a Spanish language immersion program. Until then he was always insecure and embarrassed by the fact that he didn't speak Spanish despite obviously looking Latino and having a Spanish last name.
Ortega is still quite young. Standing up to all the professionals pushing this angle at her, or even addressing the decision her Spanish speaking parents made to not teach her the language as a child, well that might just take a little more maturing before it can be expected of her. Brett, you're so young, maybe you've not yet developed compassion for youth, because you aren't old enough to know just how dumb you youngin's actually are. LOL
i’m a brazilian living in europe and portuguese is my first language because i was raised in brazil.
i have a half brazilian friend who was born in europe and didn’t grow up learning portuguese, but still visited brazil and put in the effort to learn portuguese after he was already a teenager.
if those latinas really cared, they would learn spanish. there’s so many free resources online, that if you don’t learn at least the basics you can’t really use any sort of excuse like “my parents didn’t teach me young”.
if they wanted to, they would 💁♂️
American here with a French immigrant mom. I speak both English and French fluently. I’m currently learning Spanish as a third language. It’s been a year and I’ve been doing Duolingo every day. Where I live, there are way fewer Hispanics to practice Spanish with and I still speak 10x better Spanish than Ortega does. My French might help me big time, but it’s still pathetic AF and I have no sympathy
in Brazil, we speak Spanish... in the city of Rio de Janeiro, our national capital, even our pet mokeys speak Spanish.
You're right, they're just excuses. I still remember that many people of Latin origin in the United States were ashamed and denied being Latin. Now they say that they were always proud to be Latin.
Agreed. I’ve only ever spoken English but learned a bit of German in school and now at 34 I’m learning Dutch 😅 I’d love to know multiple languages and wish I’d have started as a child but you’re right, there really is no excuse not to learn and if you want to represent a certain culture but don’t put in the effort, as a celebrity no less, it will definitely be called out 😂
if it proves my point any further, i myself learned english fluently, intermediate spanish and french, and i'm currently learning polish and japanese... it's all about whether the person truly wants to be part of the culture or not.
I personally think that Jenna was sincere when she spoke about "being diluted" and being nervous to "claim" her heritage" from personal experience (because I also don't speak my mother tongue and those are my exact feelings) because, at the same time, she has nothing else to claim.
She can feel all of those things and still wants to see more Latina representation (that is fully culturally emersed)
Latina, even if that's not who she is.
Her mother tongue is English as she was born in the US. Yours is as well if you were born in the US.
Yes! Exactly! All the mainly Mexican gate keepers come out saying she can't claim being Latina cuz she doesn't speak Spanish. Language is not ethnicity. And also most of society won't see her as just an American girl either. She looks ethnic, she's probably treated that way. It sucks when it wasn't your choice to grow up speaking Spanish. Its usually hard to keep a half and half family bilingual. Then you get shamed for it and told you can't claim the other half of your family. Like thats what defines me, who are you?!
I relate to this a lot. Even my own family (like younger cousins, aunts/uncles) have made fun of me for my lack of proficiency in spanish 🥲 since I’m not dark skinned and born in America, it’s viewed as almost being lesser-than those who are more authentically latino. I agree with you. Those words about “being diluted” felt real.
@@Maleetorres1051000%!
The thing is, you can't go to a culturally different country and demand them represent your culture more. It should be South America's responsibility to represent its culture, not default to the U.S.A., which has its own culture.
Anya Taylor Joy is Argentine. She should be able to speak her language perfectly. She was born in Miami that’s all. She lived in Argentina as a child and her parents are Spanish speakers. She also speaks English because her family are English who bb migrated to Argentina. Then, she lived some years in the UK. I was born in and studied Elementary in Miami and junior and high school in Ecuador. I would slap myself silly if I could command both languages. I identify with my Cuban, Ecuadorian and American heritage. Latinos are not a race. It’s an ethnicity.
Is not only about speaking spanish (Brazil is a part of Latin America, and we speak portuguese here!) but it's about not only SELLING the image of being latino, but actually LIVING as one. I AM more represented by Anya because by speaking one of the languages spoken in Latin America, she can be MUCH MORE connected to us, she can communicate even with me since portuguese and spanish have similar words.
You can't be out there talking about how you want to represent a community you can't even PROPERLY COMMUNICATE with.
"I'm too white for that"
You know that spanish is a "White" language, right?!
she meant white as american.
The phrase "too white for that" is not about skin color, it's about failure to have any amount of culture.
She meant that she is too gringa for that. It was understood what she meant.
@@retnuh1262What is it with you people saying white people don't have culture?
Seriously deluded if you believe we foreigners we are going to make a distinction between you because of your skin colors.
@retnuh1262 what are you talking about? Anya lived and breathed in Argentina. She was in the culture. You aren't about to tell Canelo. The mexican white redhead that he doesn't have culture.
From a Latin American perspective, the way "Latino" is used in North America (USA) is curious. It often refers to a nationality or skin color that seems unfamiliar to us. In Latin America, "Latino" denotes the Romance languages spoken in the Americas, such as Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Our primary means of identification is by our state, region, province, or department, depending on the country or nationality. Given these differences, the use of "Latino" in the United States seems perplexing.
Lo usan para diferenciar todo lo que está al sur de ellos como ciudadanos de segunda clase. Yo soy Argentino, no latino. Los que usan el termino latino son los países más cercanos a USA en los que el peso cultural de ese país es más fuerte.
Totally agree. That’s why as a Brazilian I never thought of me being Latina since I don’t speak Spanish and I don’t know the first thing about the Spanish speaking countries in Latin / Central or North America. I just don’t get it. 🤷🏻♀️
Latino means Latin American so anywhere Mexico and below. You can claim that ethnicity if you have heritage anywhere there, but people actually from those countries are going to be more comfortable identifying as such.
Ah coisas que nem vale a pena comentar. E os Latinos são os povos do Lácio em Itália (história de roma).
It's not perplexing. People want to be victims in the USA. Latino/Hispanic is one more box they get to check off.
Loved you video. Greetings from Argentina!
Language doesn't determine heritage, but language is culture (that was one of the first things we covered in intercultural studies). That's why there was such an uproar from her own community. There is a difference between "this is where I come from" and "this is who I am." If you keep talking about how latina you are, I'm going to expect some kind of linguistic proficiency in Spanish.
Hispanic and Latino are different things
Jenna Ortega isn’t a loud “woke” person. Shes a young actress and loves her work. That’s it. She’s nervous to claim it because of this. Videos that pick at the smallest thing. And yes this is her definitely being pushed by her PR team.
Eva Longoria talks all the time now about being "Mexican," even though she and her parents were born in Texas.
@@teastrainer3604 same thing with Selena Gomez. Common misconception is that her dad was born in Mexico but he as well as her mom were both born in Texas and she can't even say more than 5 words but everyone defends her but Jenna receives hate?
@@teastrainer3604that’s kind of how heritage works g Texas borders Mexico
The only thing I don’t like is that her instagram bio was literally a link for abortion clinics 😵💫
Absolutely True
Anya speaks with a perfect Argentine accent. She speaks like someone from upper class, which makes sense as her family is wealthy. You would not notice she is not from here.
Fun fact: Viggo Mortensen also speaks Spanish with an Argentinean accent.
Tiene acento de cheta porteña, digamosló como es.
Super sexy tho.
@@JavierChiappa de donde son uds?
Acento de rica?😂😂😂 Ah entonces yo tbn soy rica jajajaaja tiene acento tío platense de Argentina!!!
@@lakchorrafernandez7335 Para mi tiene acento de San Isidro. No habla como alguien de la Matanza.
@@haruno21 Del Interior de Argentina, a los habitantes de la ciudad de BsAs les decimos "Porteños"
As a Mexican myself, first language Spanish, raised like it as well, I don’t understand how people are like this.
Their parents duh you said yourself you were raised like this. Most abandoned their old lives for a better future. Jenna is proud but regrets not learning her culture much.
When a person immerses themselves into their culture the first must do is to learn the language. Only then it will allow you to fully get involved in conversations about everything from food to politics. It connects you in a deep and meaningful way.
Not really. With Mexicans, it's more important to learn the food.
@@TriforcebroI hear that! I don’t know why people think that not speaking the language keeps people from practicing their cultural heritage. It’s ludicrous.
I am Mexican American I do not speak Spanish but i am definitely involved with my culture in other ways and yes food is one of them.
That's true, for me the language is part of our latin heritage, and culture in general. Yes you can still connect to the culture without learning the language, but it's not the same. I speak both, english and español and even when it comes to getting a job knowing both gives you a great advantage
Also beating them down when tryin to learn isnt helping at all
Is it just me or does it seem like Jenna genuinely wants to be more in touch with her Latina culture, but wants to be quiet about it. Her PR team wants her to be public about it all.
Yeah that sounds pretty likely. Netflix has been trying to appeal to Hispanic people for years because it is a HUGE potential audience. Wouldn't surprise me if they ask actors of Hispanic heritage to advertise it in interviews.
I genuinely believe that Jenna is a good person with good intentions. Unfortunately PR teams pretty much decide what they are supposed to say at all times.
I feel like people are being a bit harsh on the girl. I understand saying diversity all the time can get annoying but it does seem like she liked her culture and I'm gonna assume she knows some things like food,activities and her parents probably acting like your stereotype latin family. Hard to say but to call her a hypocrite is a bit of judgement
Im from Puerto Rico and I cannot wrap my head around a rich person that talks about being hispanic that has never taken a 4 hour flight for about $250 to visit the island, it shows lack of interest in the culture.
Idk, I fell for the whole "Jenna might be a cool gal" too until you see what she actually strives for politically and socially. She's pretty much another lunatic.
1: As the child of Argentine immigrants, it is beautiful to hear Anya Taylor-Joy speak Spanish in that beautiful Argentine accent. 2: Jenna is what in the Latino community call " No hablo latinos". It happens sometimes by the 3rd or 4th generation after living the US. My own children aren't as nearly fluent in Spanish as I wish they could be. My husband is white and his only spanish is " restaurant spanish". My parents lived in another state , so my kids weren't hearing Spanish all the time growing up.
Please don’t underestimate the importance of teaching your children Spanish!! Like you were saying, I’m 4th gen Mexican American and don’t speak Spanish. My grandfather never taught his kids and yet he’s disappointed none of his grandchildren speak it. Don’t be the reason your kids and future grandkids never learn. Speak to them in Spanish as much as you can, have them watch spanish kids shows, encourage your parents to speak it to them when your kids see them, etc. You won’t regret doing all those things yet may regret not doing them in the future.
Not even 3rd or 4th. My husband's great-grandparents immigrated here and refused to teach his grandparents their native tongue.
1. Only her dad has Argentinean roots and he's half ANGLO Argentinean so that's that. Her mom is European through and through.
2. Your husband being white has nothing to do with this because Spanish itself is actually a white language. You know, Spanish as in SPAIN, the country in EUROPE.
Why don’t you speak Spanish to them. I live in a French speaking country, my husband speak English to my son and I only Spanish as I am Latina why would not want to speak my language to my own son? And guess what he’s fluent(speak, read and write) in 3 languages 😊
@@EGMADH I do speak Spanish to them but they never picked it up as well as I wanted them to. They can read and understand Spanish better than they can speak it.
Me parece raro que a los gringos les importe tanto la raza y la representación. Soy chilena y no necesito ver a una mexicana en alguna serie para sentirme representada. De hecho, puedo sentirme representada por cualquier personaje, independientemente de su nacionalidad. No todo se basa en la raza, sino que también en la voz, la postura y las experiencias. Esa es la magia del cine 👀.
En cuanto a la “representación latina”, creo que Jena Ortega está puro weando. Pero le funciona, así vende más, parece que en Hollywood solo se fijan en el color de piel de las personas, en fin, la hipotenusa 🐍
En inglés para mis cabros (in english for my guys)
I find it strange that Americans care so much about race and representation. I’m from Chile and I don’t need to see a Mexican in a series to feel represented. In fact, I can feel represented by any character, regardless of their nationality. Not everything is based on race, but also on voice, posture, and experiences. That’s the magic of cinema 👀.
As for “Latino representation,” I think Jena Ortega is exaggerating a bit. However, it seems that in Hollywood, they only care about people’s skin color…the hypocrisy 🐍.
It’s just sick the need of label someone with a race/ethnicity that americans suffer. I’m “white” due german and spaniard heritage, but I was born and raise in southern South America so I identify myself as “latina”. My blood absolutely boiled when i was in the states and had to take a COVID test to went back to my home country, the nurse (an afro american woman) asked my race, and I was like “why is that relevant, wtf… but yeah, I’m latina” then HER RESPONSE WAS “HONEY, YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY WHITE” OMFG, I swear I never hated someone that bad, who did she think she is??? It’s absolutely rude to deny someone’s self perception by their looks! Latinos are mixed af, northern latinos doesn’t look like southern latinos AT ALL, but americans tend to think that we all look mexican 🫠 Argentina, Chile and Uruguay are mostly white due the italian, german, british and spaniard influence, but still latinos! 😤 it’s like stating all americans are white, when americans can look asian, black, latinos, arab, etc, etc, etc.
That’s not only Argentina, Chile and Uruguay most Latin American countries have large white populations with mostly European heritage yet there are stereotypes that we are all mestizo or mulato. I’m a “white” Puerto Rican my kids are blonde with Gray/Blue eyes and Americans AND other Latinos are surprised to know we are fully Puerto Rican.
@@LolaDelMarCaribe😂😂😂😂 póngale 0 . No ala que se refiere es ala cantidad de población. Lógico que todos los países tiene gente de origen europeo . Pero los países que nombró la mayoría son blanco. En la primaria y secundaria . En mi país eran todos blanco . Mis vecinos . Unos mas que otros depende de que parte de Europa vinieron . Los del sur son más oscuros que los del norte. O que querés que nos identifiquemos diciendo soy afro o aborigen !! Si no lo somos
Latino isn’t a race though….
@@basicallyno1722 yeah, but the concept is clear, latinoamericanos are people with native american and european people whose languages have romantic heritage, so even if it is not a “pure race” there are a lot of features and even diseases and culture in common.
They don't get that a Latin American can be any skin color and still be a latino, including being white and blonde or Asian, black or native or any other race, we have it all people. But they always put us in this box of who is supposed to be latino and who represents us. It is really odd to see Sofia Vergara on the first season of modern family, looking very tanned and with really dark hair and dark eyes, when she's white. When she started she was blonde you could see that on her early commercial when she was young but in the show she looks like she's somebody else.
As a Mexican I feel represented in "Friends" the tv show lmao. There is not a single Latino in there, however it is a show about 6 close friends that go through every life experience imaginable together and its funny af. Plus there's an episode where Jenifer Aniston says like 3 Spanish words. I feel more represented by Jenifer Aniston's Panera Bread Spanish than Jenna Ortega's Taco Bell Spanish 🤣🤣🤣
This is exactly how I feel, and how I think most people in Argentina feel like. The whole Latino representation always seemed weird to me. We just grew up feeling identified with Drake and Josh, Hanna Montana or Lizzie McGuire lol or for example with the wizards of waverly place, they are supposed to be Latinos, yet that gets lost in the translation I guess because they felt like any other Disney channel family.
Tanta razón, los gringos tienen esa necesidad de categorizar y representar todo. 😂
@@missene8870los yanquis tienen obsesión con el color de la piel, lo que te conecta con un personaje es la personalidad que tiene ,con eso te identificas o no.
3:11 "I'm too white to speak spanish" The whole video is about a white person speaking spanish... kinda contradictory (Also, I'm a white argentinian that obviously speaks spannish... ¡Media pila, che!
Yea I noticed that, too. I really enjoy Brett's content and videos but, and I am not holding this against her AT ALL, I believe because of her self-admitted lack of knowledge and familiarity with Spanish and/or hispanic culture, the "I'm too white" when self-deprecatingly declining to attempt pronouncing a Spanish phrase was jarring and the only time I have felt a little second-hand cringe watching her videos. She actually looks more "hispanic" than most of the White hispanic fluent-spanish speakers here in Coral Gables, Florida. If I saw her on the street, I would assume she was another white Cuban girl who speaks fluent Spanish with her grandparents 😄 Not something I care too much about but yea it seems North Americans are the only people in the world who haven't learned yet hispanic is an ETHNICITY, not a race 😅😅
I am from Argentina, the country where Anya lived in her childhood, and ours is a multicultural country, only 20 years ago the term "Latino" began to be used massively here due to the influence of the Internet, but until the 90's for an Argentine there was not much difference between foreigners from countries like Mexico, France, or Poland. Beyond the language, everyone was foreign to us, and at the same time we could relate to everyone. Argentina, in addition to Italian and Spanish immigration, at the beginning of 1900 received many Polish, Germans, Italians, French and several other nationalities, you can see it for example in the last name of former president Kirchner, the soccer player Alexis MacAllister.
Saying "I'm too white for..." implies that all Latinos should look brown like Mexicans, but in fact, Latino culture comes from Europe, and there are tons of Latino people with white skin. What is called "Latino" in the USA, is actually a mixed race of indigenous people.
As someone from the Cajun French heritage, I can definitely say that speaking Cajun French is something that was totally discouraged for my grandparents, and so future generations rarely were able to speak or understand the language. It was definitely something that was discouraged, as they were told only to speak English. I wish I was able to know Cajun French, especially since it's close to being a dead language now. But I can definitely say that I always had pride in my heritage because it's me, it's where I come from, and it has shaped me in so many ways
Thats an interesting people and language.
And we share Canary Islander heritage. Hey cuz 😉 (I’m Puerto Rican)
Yeah it's messed up that the Us has destroyed the language diversity surrounding it, it's a great thing that countries like Canada and Switzerland are able to keep that multiculturalism alive
Her parents did her a great disservice, I was forced to take Spanish lesson after regular school and also Italian bc we had family we would go and visit in the summers. They wanted her to assimilate and made a choice not to teach her. Of course, now she can choose to learn but lets be real, she's just a good Hollywood mouthpiece.
Exactly, her parents could have given her the gift of being bilingual but they chose not to. Assimulation is important, but that does not mean you have to forget where you come from and language is a huge part of that. But like Brett said, she has the ability to learn it now if her Latino roots are actually that important to her. But shes just another Hollywood leftist spewing identity politics.
Facts
Dude, her parents and family are Californians who threw their daughter into the Hollywood meat grinder lmao. Hollywood parents aren't that bright or really moral lol
Knowing 2 or more languages is a plus for anyone. It opens doors to people, especially in the business world.
Language is a HUGE part of culture. Other than that I agree with everything you said.
Jenna sounded extremely genuine in that last vid ngl
I totally agree with you, as a Mexican, I hate that Selena Gomez used her “Latina card” for everything, when she don’t even speak Spanish. At least you can try, but no, she just pretend to sing some Spanish words and not even that good.
Isn't Selena half Italian too? I doubt she can speak Italian either. Also, I've noticed she never talks about her Italian heritage as much as she talks about being Mexican because that's the white part of her, so it doesn't fit into the minority card
Disgusting tribalism.
It's bot good it's goodly*
@@ananya255she’s neither she’s American
@@SCrEenNaMe-i9h I'm talking about her ethnicity, not nationality. There's a difference
Excellent analysis. I just find your channel and I really love it.
As Argentinian I can say that here we absolutely LOVE Anya, and the way that she don't brag about her roots as something so special that deserve Some sort of extra "privilege". And her accent is just amazing.
Also: MI GENTE LATINO 😂
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