If I remember what I read, he's third generation Mexican American and never really picked up Spanish. I'm a first generation, and I don't know the tongue of my parents, which is sad, too. In the United States, a lot of people lose their cultural identity, even their language, which is the price of assimilation. I admire those who are able to maintain it. I dont like it when people look at me and assume I speak another language because I only learned and grew up with English. Its even worse when people look at me thinking Im foreign or something. If an actor was from, for example, Germany, would you be as surprised if he was born in the U.S. and never learned German? I dont think its fair to look at a person and expect him/her to speak the language his racial/ethnic group speaks.
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