let me be the first to say that his spanish SUCKS!!!!! i saw him on tv the other night(cant tell you where because i was just flicking throw channels) i herd him speack a little of spanish and me and ma sister just looked at each other and said WTF!
im not trying to make fun of him, i mean the guy is a very good actor, but dam, he`s latino and cant even say hi in spanish correctly.
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sharerebuh nomis.....u must have something wrong with u ..MEXICANS are LATINOS....and the guy or girl or whatever was just saying that the actor has horrible spanish..calm down who cares he is still a good actor....and it is true he`s spanish isn't good but neither is mine but WHO CARES
share(This is just for your information). Latino is a broad term, which includes Mexicans I believe. Hispanic is another term, which I personally dislike, but differs person-to-person or region-to-region. Asians is another umbrella term. Youre right that Jay is Mexican, but he is Latino broadly speaking.
I think the poster of this thread was just surprised Jay doesnt know Spanish. It was funny to me when I saw Crazy/Beautiful because Jay in real life doesnt know Spanish too well, but the character he played, Carlos, is suppose to. It actually worked pretty well and Jay playing as Carlos was convincing even though he spoke very little Spanish.
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.
shareNo, that's why I don't like the term "Hispanic." You don't consider Filipinos Hispanic, and they've had heavy Spanish influence. I don't need to be told the meaning of the word and someone supposing I don't know what they mean. I just know it's used and understood differently depending on where you are.
sharewhoa calm down rebuh nomis.
he/she waz just stating that he isn't fluent in spanish.
Nd yea itz a little strange when y0u see a guy, nd your lyke hez br0wn.. F*k yea!
then u hear him talk nd ur lyke WHAT?? WTF!
but shytt im not even very fluent in spanish...
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WHO CAREZ IF THERE IZ TYP0'Z!
wow lyke everyone typez perfectly??
g0d...
Just because you have no lyfe nd make sure you type everything how its supposed to be,
doesnt mean everyone else haz t0.
Br0wnPr1d3