Comments on: The New Anglo-Latino Household, or Colombia 90210

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By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:23:45 +0000

Sorry, for all the typos in my reply. I hope you get the gist.

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 06:19:15 +0000

I am white. My husband is white. We want our child to be raised speaking spanish. Many people are shocked and ask if she is a Latina, because her accent is flawless. My husband and I do not speak perfect spanish, however my spanish is enough to communicate, but not to raise her on my own. I believe a multi-language education is important and for that I have had to sacrifice my own humility a bit. I tell my nanny I want her with the Latino community. She tells me that “Gringo” is what all the nanny’s call my family behind us behind our back. Is it offensive. Sure. But, I believe if there are more people like my daughter out there learning the languages of the world and embracing the cultures the less of a divide and opportunity for derogatory words in general to be used by all cultures toward one another. No on would be an outsider or a foreigner, we could all fit in with one another…..Rubén González, Do you have to intermarry to get into these clubs?

By: Brett

Brett — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:07:27 +0000

My wife was born in Mexico but raised near Chicago and, although it irritates her when I say this, even speaks Spanish with a Chicago accent. I’m about as American and also upper-South Southern as you can be. In addition, she’s 13 years younger than I am. Sheesh! So our marriage is bigenerational and quadricultural (North, South, Anglo, Latino). We refer to our kids as our little anglatinos. Although I once spoke Spanish, I went many years without using it and lost a great deal, and our kids are essentially monolingual in English. I regret that, but it’s in line with our national history; that’s exactly what happened in the late 1800s and early 1900s and throughout our history and is one of our great strengths no matter how nativist some of our citizens can become at times..

And, as usual, I talk too much. I hadn’t seen the site before and think it’s very good and I thought the post was wonderful.

By: Gringa

Gringa — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 23:39:38 +0000

Thanks for the post! My husband is Colombian and I am American and he always talks about watching 90210 when he was younger back in Colombia. I agree that the bicultural life can be difficult, but think how much better off we are to opening our minds to a new world.

By: Love, Translated | Colombia 90210

Love, Translated | Colombia 90210 — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:37:42 +0000

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By: Ruben

Ruben — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 19:56:05 +0000

Hey Tracy,

What a pleasure to have you run into me here

I’m happy to hear that my glass half full perspective resonates!

I need to catch up on your Te Encontraré series soon.

And if you’re Brenda, then I feel for your husband, though it must be nice to be like Dylan in general.

Ruben

By: Tracy (Sra. López)

Tracy (Sra. López) — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:52:04 +0000

Rubén! Here I was missing you due to your quietness on your own blog, and I come over to Spanglish Baby and bump into you at the grocery store, as it were

This post made me feel so happy to be an Anglo-Latino household. You found the silver lining and made it seem almost superior. Thanks for that. We know in reality that in the day-to-day, it makes some things more complicated, but this is a feel-good reminder I’d like to keep in my back pocket for those days when I’m eying Latino-Latino households jealously

…as for the 90210 references. LOL. I’m not a blond and could never pull it off. I’ll have to settle for being my husband’s Brenda

By: Sgmateus

Sgmateus — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 09:18:47 +0000

Interesting. Made me realize what my husbands parents may have gone through. His dad is from Ecuador and hid mom is American. I think on
some level we may have similar concerns raising our
baby girl. We are both Spanish- speaking Americans. My parents are from
Mexico. We consider ourselves bicultural but it’s difficult to pass that on to the same degree as our parents… I guess I feel as if our take on
latino culture is watered down. We’ll give it a shot and see what happens

By: Corey

Corey — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:54:30 +0000

I love this post! The way you intertwine your personal associations with language and culture in such an approachable, warm way. Thank you for hitting the nail on the head – having the best of both worlds while at the same time feeling the tug of our deepest sense of who we are. Lovely!

We can never go back and see what it would have been like that “other way,” can we? Just to take a little peek because of our insatiable curiosity. Orpheus and Eurydice – don’t turn around, don’t turn around! Yet deep down, we already know that what we have with our bilingual, bicultural mix and meanderings is better than anything we could even imagine! Yet we still ponder – why? Because we can! Because something will always feel just that little bit different than we thought it would/should be (or others tell us it should be).

Thank you for sharing this lovely article. It has been a highlight of my day!

Warmly,
Corey