:58:02
Now get off the bed
you're messing up my pillow.
:58:09
They want us to play in Mexico?
:58:11
-A gig in Monterrey, Mexico!
-That would be so cool.
:58:14
I'm not sure of that.
:58:16
Come on, Dad.
:58:17
You always said everything's a risk.
:58:19
They don't accept us there.
They never have.
:58:21
We're Mexican!
:58:22
No, we're Mexican-American and
they don't like Mexican-Americans.
:58:25
And they can be mean and
they can tear us apart there.
:58:28
And Selena's Spanish is....
:58:30
What about it?
:58:32
I've been singing in Spanish
for ten years. It's perfect.
:58:35
Singing, yes.
:58:36
But you speak it a little funny.
:58:38
There you must speak perfectly
or the press will eat you up alive.
:58:42
I've seen them do it.
:58:43
Overreacting.
:58:44
The music will speak for itself.
:58:47
Being Mexican-American is tough.
:58:49
Anglos jump all over you
if you don't speak English perfectly.
:58:53
Mexicans jump all over you
if you don't speak Spanish perfectly.
:58:56
We must be twice as perfect
as anybody else.
:59:00
Why're you laughing?
:59:01
-What's so funny?
-Nothing.
:59:03
I'm serious.
:59:05
Our family has been here for centuries.
:59:07
Yet they treat us as if we just
swam across the Rio Grande.
:59:11
We must know about
John Wayne and Pedro Infante.
:59:14
We must know about
Frank Sinatra and Agustin Lara.
:59:18
We must know about Oprah and Cristina.
:59:21
Anglo food is too bland.
:59:23
And yet, in Mexico we get the runs.
:59:25
Now that, to me, is embarrassing.
:59:27
Japanese-Americans, ltalian-Americans,
German-Americans...
:59:30
...their homeland is across the ocean.
:59:33
Ours...
:59:34
...is right next door.
Right over there.
:59:37
We must prove to the Mexicans
how Mexican we are.
:59:40
Prove to the Americans we're American.
:59:42
We must be more Mexican than Mexicans,
more American than Americans...
:59:45
...both at the same time!
It's exhausting.
:59:48
Damn!
:59:50
Nobody knows how tough it is
to be Mexican-American.
:59:55
It's a good thing we have "frijoles"
to keep our strength up for the job.
:59:59
-Now you're making fun of me.
-No, I'm not! And "menudo".