Al Madrigal spoke with BuzzFeed News about his upcoming one-hour special Half Like Me about growing up half Mexican and half white. The Daily Show “Latino correspondent” said he always felt like he wasn’t Latino or white enough.
1. How not to pronounce his name.
Jorge Ramos, high-profile news anchor for Univision and Fusion, tried to teach Madrigal how to pronounce his name. It could have gone better.
Courtesy Fusion
2. Only slide on a wet soccer field.
Madrigal kicked the soccer ball around with L.A. Galaxy player, Omar Gonzalez, and learned a valuable lesson about the art of sliding.
Courtesy Fusion
3. The importance of rolling your R's in Spanish.
Though Madrigal’s father spoke Spanish, he only spoke English to his children so they would acculturate faster.
“All of a sudden you have somebody who speaks broken Spanish and is embarrassed by it," Madrigal said. "Now you have a generation of people that value and know what an asset Spanish is.”
Courtesy Fusion
4. A better way to scare Latino kids.
Madrigal convinced Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the Minuteman, a militia group active on the border, to put on a chupacabra mask as a tool to scare immigrant children.
Courtesy Fusion
No comments:
Post a Comment