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You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador. And neither one of those is Mexico.

— Jennifer Esposito

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My grandfather came over from Puerto Rico and raised his kids speaking English so that it would be easier for them to assimilate.

— Aubrey Plaza

It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.

— Gael Garcia Bernal

There were a lot of kids from Puerto Rico at my high school in Florida; people always assumed I was Puerto Rican. Even now in California, I get talked to on the street in Spanish constantly!

— Torrey DeVitto

My dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish. That's the world in which I grew up, and that's a world in which a lot of second generation immigrants find themselves.

— Ted Cruz

We've built six schools in Colombia and do work in South Africa and Haiti. We teach 5,000 students.

— Shakira

My son lives in Nicaragua. My daughters live in the United States.

— Gioconda Belli

I was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and I would go to school in Texas. I lived on the border, so I was very fortunate to grow up between two worlds and both cultures and both languages and traditions.

— Bianca Marroquin

I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of family there, and my mom's first language is Spanish. But growing up in the States, and with my dad being from the States, I'm kind of just like this white kid.

— David Lambert

I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador.

— Raul Julia

✗Opposing Perspectives

My father was born and raised in Havana, Cuba. His family is from Spain. My father never taught me how to speak Spanish when I was little. That's very disappointing to me. I'm still planning on learning it on my own. I really want to travel to Spain and immerse myself in the culture and learn it on my own.

— Kether Donohue