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

[Terrance]

Dave Monroe wrote:
> 
> 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 ...

Now, if I had the time and if I were in my library in New York I would
pull down Tony Tanner's _The American Mystery_ where his essay on
Underworld sandwiched between his essays on Gatsby and M&D, but I'm far
far away and I don't think Tanner ever published an essay on Pocho he
took that Long Left into the Sore Thumb of God's Great Margarita. 




> 
> > 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 ...


It ain't not apparently so ... 
of ever necessarily... 

My Brazilian Girlfriend screams EYE, EYE, EYE. 

My Colombian wife screams SEE, SEE, SEE. 

And I just look in the mirror over our bed and mouth Y O U 



> 
> 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 ...

I'm not sure what an Hispanic is, but Mexican American Catholics, CA and
SA Catholics are the targeted by the JH and other fundamentalists here
in the USA. Pretty sad.