Hector Zuniga & Zoyd Wheeler (More or Less Ironic Double Stuff)

[Dave Monroe]

While I've a little time ...

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Hector is a  great expectation and exception, an
> American Dreamer. Like Jay Gatsby, he builds his
> identity from  cultural waste ...

Who doesn't?  Or maybe that's the point ...
 
> Robert's point that Hector code switches to his
> native tongue when he is excited is spot on.

Constructed from the history of teevee Latinos from
Ricky Ricardo on here, though, as with yr average
mkyth, accreted around a kernel of truth.  I'm under
the impression that most bilinguals default to their
native tongues under duress, excitement, et al.  My
default being Anglo-Saxon, apparently ...

> His calling out to the Mother, and the Mother Of
> God, is ironically and humorously contrasted with
> his teasing Zoyd about the possibility of his having
> converted (Latter Day Saint) and discovered his
> spirituality.

Also a kernel of truth here.  For a midrange
midwestern city which tends to foreground its German,
Polish and, to a lesser extent, Italian and Irish
heritage (I've all but one ot the former going), we've
an awful lot of Hispanic Jehovah's Witnesses here, at
any rate.  A surprising number of Mormons as well, but
they tend towards the more classic variety ... 

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