Constantly cast as an Italian???
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this_is_the_way_the_world_ends — 19 years ago(February 14, 2007 10:46 AM)
Dude, you cannot compare Alexis Bledel to Jennifer Lopez. Alexis's mom is not "Mexican" She's french and german but was raised/lived in mexico. that is why she looks white. Cause she IS. If anyone looks at Jennifer Lopez and cant tell she is hispanic, they should lay off the sauce. Just say no.
she was raised/lived in Mexico means she's Mexican. Perhaps you are confusing Mestizo with Mexican but if you are from Mexico you are Mexican. It is a fallacy that all Mexican's are one race Mexican is a nationality.
Hispanics AND Latinas come in all colors, shapes and races. Hispanics are those who come from spanish speaking countries (and/or cultures). Porta Rican's are 100% AMERICAN and they are still hispanic. Latina/Latinos are from Latin America.
Latin America (Portuguese/Spanish: Amrica Latina) is the region of the Americas where Romance languages those derived from Latin, namely Spanish and Portuguese are officially or primarily spoken. Latin America is distinct from Anglo-America, a region of the Americas where English, a Germanic language, predominates.
The most common view is that Latin America includes territories in the Americas where Spanish or Portuguese prevail: Mexico (North America) and most of Central America, South America, and the Caribbean (both in land area and population). The acronym "LACRO" refers to this view. The English-speaking countries of North and South America are not included in Latin America.
Sometimes, particularly in the United States, the term "Latin America" is used to refer to all of the Americas south of the U.S., including countries such as Belize, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Jamaica, Barbados and Suriname where non-Romance languages prevail[1].
Geopolitically, Latin America is divided into 20 independent countries and several dependent territories. Spanish is predominant and an official language in most Latin American countries with the exception of Brazil, where Portuguese prevails, and Haiti, where Haitian Creole is the dominant language.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America
Latin America includes such countries and regions as
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Uruguay
Venezuela
French Guiana
Guadeloupe
Martinique
Aruba
Bonaire
Curaao
U.S. Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico
Latin America has a very diverse population, with many ethnic groups of different ancestries, the majority of which are European, Amerindian, or African in origin, or a mix of any of these.
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this_is_the_way_the_world_ends — 19 years ago(February 14, 2007 10:51 AM)
As used in the United States, Hispanic is one of several terms of ethnicity employed to categorize any person, of any racial background, of any country and of any religion who has at least one ancestor from the people of Spain or Spanish-speaking Latin America, whether or not the person has Spanish ancestry. It is therefore not a racial term, although as used in the United States it often carries racial connotations.
Hispanic (Spanish Hispano, from Latin Hispānus, adjective from Hispānia, "Iberian Peninsula") is a term denoting a derivation from Spain, its people and culture. It follows the same style of use as Anglo, which indicates a derivation of England and the English.
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karina76 — 17 years ago(October 31, 2008 04:14 PM)
I agree, she definately looks hispanic.
Years ago, when I saw her for the first time in Money Train, and I never heard or saw her before, I immediately thought she's latina. I never thought she was caucasian. Her looks doesn't mean she couldn't have been something else other than latina. Just my opinion. -
greensweater — 19 years ago(February 10, 2007 08:05 AM)
And, dude, I don't know what movies have white folks playing traditional Asians, but that's gotta be pretty funny.
I'm guessing you've never seen Breakfast at Tiffany's. I remember Blake Edwards saying he regreted casting Andy Rooney.
As for people bringing up the blackface comparisons, I'm sorry, but J.Lo playing an Italian woman in some movie is not the same thing.
I'm suprised no one mentioned Al Pacino in Scarface yet.
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MysteryReaderReturns — 18 years ago(September 20, 2007 10:21 PM)
I don't see the problemMexican is not a race, Italian is white though. Al Pacino played a Cuban, there are white Cubans.so there is nothing wrong with it.
Illegals out!:
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anticaria — 17 years ago(October 24, 2008 03:19 PM)
i too think casting jennifer lopez as an italian is ludicrous, unless she's playing a mixed italian/puerto rican type.. but for the record, jennifer looks ethnic, and there's probably some black or amerindian ethnicty in her.. no doubt.. this is particularly evident in her nose and lips.. although, one of jennifer's sisters, whom i believe is also in show business, is not nearly as ethnic-looking jennifer cannot pass for anything but what she very obviously is: latin or mixed. ethnic roles suit her much better. period.
actors who are obviously not of a particular race should not be 'pretending' to play actors of that race.. it's silly and jennifer is obviously not of the caucasian persuasion and even mediterranean-looking italians don't have the negroid features jennifer does. sorry!
either alter the script to make her character mixed or ethnic, or drop this foolishness of having jennifer playing irish or italian types.. silly! -
Celestina_24 — 16 years ago(January 14, 2010 09:52 PM)
I thought she was Hispanic in this film? The mother looked it, the father kind of did and the brother was the odd ball.
Yeah she is a Mestiza, shes not only just white. They need to have her playing a PUERTO RICAN woman like she is. In the wedding planner weren't they Hispanic, her family??
But OP I do not think she has a Hispanic accent, just a New York one. No race/ethnicity attatched to it. -
hcim90 — 15 years ago(June 04, 2010 08:30 AM)
OK, i'm Italian American myself and I always get called latina, as do much of my family.
To be perfectly honest, there's not really that much difference. Hispanic-Americans are descended from the Spanish and Portuguese that went to South/Central America during the colonial period and Italian-Americans are descendents of the Italians. They're both from almost the same part of the world originally, and while there admitedly is a difference, it's not all that huge, and i know a lot of Italians who could pass for hispanics and vice versa.
PLUS the word Latino/a that people seem to be using frequently here, actually isn't synonymous with south/central america. the world can be used to describe anybody with latin heritage (Portuguese, Spanish, and ORIGINALLY Italian)
And i also don't see her accent as being particularly hispanic it's just a new york accent. And as for having African features?? Ummm.. like what?
I wish I could think of something witty to put here but I can't.