Tuesday, March 14, 2006

a day without a mexican


Have you guys seen this movie? I saw it this evening--very interesting. It's kind of a "mockumentary" about what happens in California when all of the Latinos suddenly disappear (although, of course, ALL Latinos are Mexican, right?)--there's no one to do the menial tasks or agricultural work and pretty much society just falls apart.
We might not have the same number of immigrant Mexican workers here in Canada (although I watched a documentary about Mexican migrant workers who come up to Leamington, ON, to work in the tomatoe greenhouses--our hands are not so clean, either), but this film definitely pushes one to think about one's own stereotypes about other cultures and North American ethnocentricity. Definitely recommend it.

Vi una pelicula que se llama "Un dia sin un Mexicano"--es muy chevere. Se cuenta de un dia en California cuando subidamente no hay ningun mexicano o latino--se desapariaron! Es una pelicula chistosa--pero tambien tiene una mensage importante de como pensamos de otras culturas--todo somos personnes, iguales. Entonces, estamos tratando el otro como alguien igual a nosotros?

1 Comments:

At 9:09 a.m., Blogger Cordella said...

I definately want to see it! Do you own it or did you rent it?

 

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