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To people. >> being chicano means that like we have multiple identities. like we love tamales, and we love burgers. all of us right here, we all got college degrees. three of us right here, we got masters. my brother just got accepted to a ph.d. program at ucla. >> what? ph.d. over here? >> so the whole idea of the immigrant, of like who are they? theyre taking away. theyre not giving back. youre looking at us, man, and were like, were paying your taxes. were paying your salary. were creating mu...

>> and now im hella proud of being chicano, of having my family that came from another country, that worked so hard to be here, you know what im saying? losing your language, feeling proud of who you are, right? but also not knowing who you are. that anxiety, that pride, that anxiousness. >> like knowing where you can be proud. >> all that. you mix that, and that experience is what we call being chicano. being chicano. >> its funny. everything youre saying makes me feel like, i think im a chican...

Light brown and tan. and i understand as the country becomes more latino, i feel like i need to reach out, you know? i need to go to east l.a. i need to meet people and talk to people. >> being chicano means that like we have multiple identities. like we love tamales, and we love burgers. all of us right here, we all got college degrees. three of us right here, we got masters. my brother just got accepted to a ph.d. program at ucla. >> what? ph.d. over here? >> so the whole idea of the immigrant...

>> and now im hella proud of being chicano, of having my family that came from another country, that worked so hard to be here, you know what im saying? losing your language, feeling proud of who you are, right? but also not knowing who you are. that anxiety, that pride, that anxiousness. >> like knowing where you can be proud. >> all that. you mix that, and that experience is what we call being chicano. being chicano. >> its funny. everything youre saying makes me feel like, i think im a chican...

>> before the spanish said would you like to borrow this language? >> yeah, yeah, you know what im saying? >> how did you grow up? like what was your -- >> spanish was my first language, but when you come to school here, you know, everythings about english. everythings about being american. everythings about being white. you know what im saying? >> assimilation. >> assimilation, man. put your mexican food away. over here we eat ham and cheese white bread sandwiches and thats what i wanted, you k...

>> sounds good. ive heard this type of music before, but this has a different spin on it. >> were remixing roots music. were chicano kids. born here, but weve got roots all over the world. you know, even in this band, we got roots, jewish folks, mohawk, yaci, mexican, all across the board. but one thing we have in common is that we all grew up here. so this process of assimilation and like knowing your language, not knowing your language. what does your like ancestry come from? that whole like f...

Be here, you know what im saying? losing your language, feeling proud of who you are, right? but also not knowing who you are. that anxiety, that pride, that anxiousness. >> like knowing where you can be proud. >> all that. you mix that, and that experience is what we call being chicano. being chicana. >> knowing where you defend it and knowing -- >> its funny. everything youre saying makes me feel like, i think im a chicano, because thats all the same stuff. you know what im saying? america has...

To people. >> being chicano means that like we have multiple identities. like we love tamales, and we love burgers. all of us right here, we all got college degrees. three of us right here, we got masters. my brother just got accepted to a ph.d. program at ucla. >> what? ph.d. over here? >> so the whole idea of the immigrant, of like who are they? theyre taking away. theyre not giving back. youre looking at us, man, and were like, were paying your taxes. were paying your salary. were creating mu...

Being chicano, of having my family that came from another country, that worked so hard to be here, you know what im saying? losing your language, feeling proud of who you are, right? but also not knowing who you are. that anxiety, that pride, that anxiousness. >> like knowing where you can be proud. >> all that. you mix that, and that experience is what we call being chicano. being chicana. >> its funny. everything youre saying makes me feel like, i think im a chicano, because thats all the same...

>> spanish was my first language, but when you come to school here, you know, everythings about english. everythings about being american. everythings about being white. you know what im say something. >> assimilation. >> assimilation, man. put your mexican food away. over here we eat ham and cheese white bread sandwiches and thats what i wanted, you know? when i was a kid, i was ashamed of speaking spanish. i wanted to be something else, you know? i wanted to have that, like, nice white boy hai...