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So much. Gloria and gloria, thats so interesting because i think lot of us have had to, still deal with, that still have t living in both worlds. But dina, you were forced to embrace one identity and hollywood, right i feel like i was living in three worlds there was my world that i grew up in, also Spanish Speaking home, human parents, and the you go out to the world and i speaking english, and im in the bronx, south bronx and then going into this industry as an actress, then nobody recognizes you as eithe one. There was no place for me as a latina, and then as a blac woman, i didnt identify as black woman because for me, it was cultural because of course, i present black, im a black women, i am also cuban when you are here in the unite states and they ask you, put you into a box, and you don fit into the box, culturally i was different. It was not one that identified with, but to work, to survive, it was something that i had t ....
Can have, like, up and unpacking of, why is racism so embedded in letting that period, right? the legacy of the caste system if there s a whole history. you are talking about being th human condition, it s the huma condition of colonization. like, it is colonization tha still exists in our minds. right, so the caste system i something that has bee outlawed for centuries now, bu the colonizers still listen in our mind and tell us, you have to be lighter skin to be mor beautiful. the thing is, i don t think we realize what we are actually seeing we re still seeing that whit people are better than us an we are so inspiring to be white, and it is because of the caste system you are saying there s only one way to be latino, only one way to black, only one way, but, like, white people get to be all sorts of different things. our identity is very competitive because i am a immigrant, but i have friend who whose families have been i texas since their first they never crossed the border ....