00:00
They had never seen a Latina that wasn't like a, like a worker
00:03
in their house and they're like, oh they call me the hot tamale
00:07
They call you a hot tamale.
00:08
I'm not even, I never even had tamale at that time because I
00:11
was like, I'm like, I've never had a tamale.
00:13
They were like, 00 the hot Tamales.
00:16
So that is really problematic.
00:18
That's what it was like growing up here in my life.
00:21
So it was just like, it doesn't bug me.
00:25
I think it like, you don't understand how much we're doing
00:30
right now because I don't think I've ever seen something even
00:32
like doing this project.
00:33
I was like, oh, I, I'm not going to get it.
00:34
I'm not Latina enough.
00:35
You guys want me because I just never seen this kind of mix ever
00:39
So what is it like being Dominican in L A to you?
00:41
Honestly, I didn't want to go there.
00:43
But I know it was like, I'm studying abroad.
00:51
We're back for another episode of girl.
00:52
Let me tell you I'm here with my girls.
00:56
My name is Yvonne Rojas and we're here.
00:58
We're talking about everything today.
00:59
You know, we know we go, the conversation can go left or right
01:02
or in the middle or up and down and up or down.
01:05
It goes, it's a compass, it's a compass.
01:07
And I want to know compact.
01:11
I can't even say so many words in English.
01:14
I wanna know what y'all think about the blue check situation
01:17
Would you, are you, do you guys got blue checks?
01:21
But I feel like it's over K followers.
01:25
But and I was thinking I was gonna get it this year.
01:27
That was one of my goals.
01:28
But now with the whole payment thing, I'm like, I don't even
01:30
know why did you apply?
01:33
I did apply a couple of times.
01:35
Yeah, I didn't get it in really large bold fonts.
01:40
I as I did but you have a blue check.
01:44
Yes, I bought my blue check.
01:48
It was just, you know, I just think people believe that I should
01:51
So people don't really, they're not really catching up on
01:54
How much did you pay for it?
01:55
If it's 1499 I'm gonna tell you why I need a customer service
02:03
So, ok, so apparently Instagram made like 600 well, so far
02:07
$660 million 660 million dollars for a blue I think that that
02:16
I hate when, when the community like Instagram comes together
02:18
with this fake sta and then just every everybody and everyone
02:21
that like where did you get this information?
02:25
So look how much like it was like a quote that was going around
02:28
I was like, I personally like it better when it comes natural
02:32
with and I was going to wait, how are you gonna distinguish
02:35
the real from the non real?
02:36
And that baby in is fake, not all of it.
02:40
There's some real people there.
02:42
Somebody who's real on the internet, you've never lied on
02:47
You never filter something.
02:48
Filter zoom in because it literally hurts.
02:55
I will say girls like, OK, honestly you glory.
02:59
It makes sense that that's what I was saying.
03:03
We have a brand or business, it makes sense.
03:05
But if you're kind of and I hate to say it but you just use your
03:08
Instagram to like maybe post family pictures or something
03:14
But like what are you doing?
03:15
What is your purpose of a blue check if you have no reason to
03:19
But there were some people that you know when we look at your
03:21
stories, you see a blue check.
03:22
I'm like, why the fuck does this person have a blue check?
03:23
So I I understood that.
03:25
But when I comment, I was like, it looks like it when you have
03:28
you should have been, that had a blue check a long time ago.
03:30
So, I am Zuckerberg and Jessica.
03:32
More importantly, you should have a blue check.
03:38
This is, you know, you earned it.
03:41
You should 10 years.
03:42
I've been working hard.
03:44
I, I have friends that work at, you know, meta and they're really
03:49
One I had classes with, you can't be that good of a friend.
03:51
But no, they, they are good friends, but I've never wanted
03:53
to reach out because I don't like bugging people and I'm like
03:54
it's gonna come and I'll just supply on my own.
03:56
But mate closed mouth don't get fed.
03:59
So I go by a gig to gig basis just like you're an actress.
04:02
So if that month is slow, that month is slow or that month, I'm
04:06
like left and right business.
04:08
It comes at you like, it's crazy.
04:11
How do you pick and choose which one, which opportunity you
04:14
I think if it makes sense, the money's right.
04:16
I like the people I'm working with because again, when you've
04:18
been in this for 10 years for however long we've been in, you're
04:21
going to be more picky with your energy, your time, your resources
04:23
your talent, if they know your worth ABC and D, everything
04:26
just kind of has to align and that's how I kind of maneuver that
04:30
situation our parents don't know what we're doing because
04:33
we're paving that way.
04:34
My career, my parents would have no.
04:36
Do they understand that?
04:39
I'm carving my own name like she was doing this comedy thing
04:42
and my mom, they support you.
04:43
My mom is so I'm all over the Dominican Republic whatsapp channels
04:48
I mean, if my parents was a doctor, I can imagine they probably
04:51
would not want me to do it.
04:52
Like my parents are not doctors.
04:54
Doctors seem really mean.
04:54
My mom was a stay at home and my dad works in the tire business
04:57
But when I first started in the industry, I remember my dad
04:59
got so mad that I was working at, like, doing radio in college
05:04
that he took my car from me and I had to Uber too.
05:07
Like, he was like, I don't want you, I don't want you getting
05:09
into that business or whatever it might be anyway.
05:11
He took my car and he was just like, didn't, I don't know, I don't
05:14
know what it was but it just, he didn't like that.
05:16
I was there and I had to like Uber to and from the radio station
05:19
and I was getting paid less at the radio station than I was spending
05:23
So I remember there was one time, one of my coworkers, I was
05:25
like, I don't even know how I'm gonna get home.
05:27
Sometimes I'd even sleep at the radio station because, yeah
05:31
So, at the beginning, why would they do that?
05:33
I don't, I don't really know.
05:34
I think they just wanted me to go down a more traditional, like
05:36
you're gonna get paid.
05:38
This is the route, you know.
05:39
And also it's scary.
05:40
Entertainment's scary.
05:41
Even if my kid got into entertainment, I'd be like, ok, my kid's
05:45
going to be a nepotism kid 100%.
05:47
I think my mom is really proud because I'm doing something
05:50
that hasn't been done.
05:51
There are not that many Dominican stand up comedians.
05:54
So she is really proud of me.
05:56
And then she also has a lot of attention whenever she comes
05:59
So I think she thinks this is her career and she's having a really
06:04
Do you ever feel like guilty for living this life?
06:06
Like you're bi coastal, you're going to all the games, you're
06:09
leaving your parents?
06:10
Like working every day.
06:10
My dad works, wakes up every day at seven in the morning, is
06:13
working all day doing being a doctor, coming back home, go
06:16
eats dinner, go to sleep, do the same thing again for seven
06:18
days straight, for, for five days straight and sleeps on the
06:21
weekends and we're like traveling, having fun and this is
06:24
a blast working like, do you feel guilty at all or do you feel
06:27
like, ok, I deserve this or, or what?
06:29
I don't know if I I feel like I'm thankful I think is what it is
06:33
II I can't sit here and say that I feel guilty because my dad
06:36
did all that for me to be able to have a better life than he had
06:39
So I'm just more so like, thank you.
06:41
And I'm gonna take advantage of this and I'm gonna do whatever
06:43
I can in my, you know, whatever I can do for my kids to make sure
06:46
that it's even easier and smoother for them.
06:48
I think as an for me, like if I get to go where I'm going, I could
06:51
bring all of us together, just give me a second and let me get
06:56
into this so I can pay for all the birthday parties.
06:59
You don't understand.
06:59
I lived with my parents till September of last year in my same
07:06
We have different house that I grew up with.
07:08
I'm and I'm like dad and the whole he supported all my acting
07:12
you know, he, he paid for all my education and acting stuff
07:14
and I would come to his room and be like, I felt like I was 13 like
07:16
dad, um there's this workshop that I really wanna take you
07:20
It's just $600 and he's like me is just $600 and I'm like dad
07:24
it's an investment dad.
07:25
I swear to God one day it'll be worth it.
07:27
And like he, he never has said no about education.
07:30
That's one thing he always was like, if it's about education
07:33
I got you because that's for your future.
07:34
So like till literally five months ago and then I booked my
07:38
first big gig in this January, but we were just laughing about
07:43
it because when I get like an award, I'm gonna be like, thanks
07:45
my mom and dad for let me on the couch till last year.
07:48
Did you guys have your award speeches ready?
07:50
Because I think about it when I was young, I definitely think
07:53
about what I'm gonna say.
07:54
I'm gonna definitely think Kobe Bryant at the end, Kobe, Kobe
07:58
to dedicate my my more to Kobe because he's the one who taught
08:01
me mama mentality to never give up to try to be the best to keep
08:05
Like I feel very strongly about Kobe and I'm going to dedicate
08:08
the first trophy to him.
08:09
Oh, that's really sweet.
08:12
I'm gonna dedicate the first one to my mom.
08:13
She's literally deserved.
08:14
Like, even before I was in entertainment, she's always supported
08:18
So I have a new hobby every day and she supported every single
08:22
thing when I wanted to study abroad when I wanted to and she
08:26
just always supported everything.
08:27
It's like whatever makes you happy.
08:28
But now I think she's trying to see where the results are because
08:31
you're 33 they're coming.
08:33
That's what you subscribe to this podcast.
08:37
How's your guys in Spanish because I feel like that's another
08:38
topic because I know there's like this whole thing about being
08:40
a no Salvo kid or whatever, speak Spanish.
08:53
But like, especially in my family, I hate speaking around
08:55
them because they're always gonna judging me like you're
08:56
saying that word wrong.
08:57
Well, bitch, I won't talk at all 23 years ago.
09:00
I'm like, I'm in the dining room studying and my sisters are
09:04
She's a producer, the other ones, a landscape architect and
09:06
they look at me and I'm studying for an audition.
09:08
That's like I have to pretend to be like a frog or something
09:10
Wait, pretend to be a frog.
09:11
I was like, I'm doing things to get to where you go and she's
09:14
just like, you don't do anything Ivana, you don't do anything
09:16
And I'm sitting there and I swear to God, I have like tears in
09:18
my eyes because I'm like, I'm trying to be someone like, yeah
09:22
just because like we were like in a fight and they're working
09:25
their butts off every single day and I'm like sitting there
09:27
studying to do an audition for a commercial and they're like
09:30
do something and I'm like, just wait, please.
09:32
I'm studying for audition and meet this.
09:34
My dad is my hero and although he didn't see the vision at first
09:37
Yeah, at you know, at first he didn't see the vision because
09:40
He's like why is my daughter doing that?
09:42
And I think he was trying to protect me but now, oh my God, he's
09:44
like, I'm so proud of you.
09:46
He's gonna turn into every, every single episode like he's
09:49
supported on whatsapp like three guys is that they live through
09:53
They li like we are, they're happy.
09:55
I sat down two days ago with them.
09:56
They're like, you are happy like you every little story you
09:59
say to us and you come home matters to us.
10:01
I can literally play a five second video of me being like and
10:04
my mom and dad like, yeah, like like literally my God.
10:07
It's because it's like they're living, they didn't get to
10:10
follow their passions like my, my dad's artistic but he and
10:13
my mom, my mom is a singer to answer.
10:15
So they never got to do it because they had to build a life.
10:19
And so when they see us, I think they're like, go do it, let's
10:23
We got it, we got you back.
10:24
You know what else is important to me?
10:26
Um Is also providing like someone for my niece to look up to
10:30
So like I have a, I don't know, you guys aren't no, my my brothers
10:34
they're too young, they're too young.
10:38
I mean, she's like 20 my niece is like eight.
10:40
So she's starting to really get a grasp like the world like
10:42
sometimes I'll pick her up before I go to a show.
10:44
She's like, why are you dressed up so fancy?
10:46
I'm like, oh, I'm doing comedy or, like, I'm going to an event
10:48
so I think it's also important.
10:49
I didn't really have someone.
10:50
Well, I guess my mom and my parents were people I look up to like
10:53
they were doing stuff.
10:54
But I just want to be a good role model for my nieces.
10:58
I think this would be a good thing.
10:59
I want to be a role model to all the women, all the young girls
11:02
And that's important because again, like growing up and I
11:04
think I had mentioned this in another episode, but I didn't
11:06
have any of those role models.
11:08
I was raised in a very, you know, area that it wasn't very diverse
11:12
I'll tell you that much.
11:12
I felt very like alone, super alone, super depressed.
11:17
I, I honestly can say some of my most depressed, saddest angriest
11:21
moments was as a little girl.
11:23
Did you talk to your mom about the uh my mom knows that like I
11:27
did not have a good time at all in elementary middle school
11:29
I didn't really relate to anybody, nobody related to me or
11:33
So growing up being Mexican Colombian American was so hard
11:36
for me and I know you said you always owned it and you loved it
11:39
I was always so shamed and put down for that.
11:42
Like when I was growing up So it was so hard for me to be proud
11:45
I would try to suppress it at school.
11:46
I'd code switch, go home and then love like my culture and be
11:49
with my mom and then like, go to school and it would just be like
11:51
a whole different identity.
11:52
That's when I was younger.
11:53
It wasn't until high school that I was like, what in the heck
11:55
There are people like me and this is something to celebrate
11:58
and I couldn't be prouder now.
12:00
But when you're younger and you don't have social media, you
12:02
don't have anything else to relate to.
12:04
So anybody that had that experience growing up, I totally
12:06
feel you because so how do you identify now when you like, you
12:09
meet somebody, you like, I'm, I'm Mexican, I'm Mexican Colombian
12:14
I'm like a Chicana through and through like, you know, Chicana
12:18
I know the word Chingona.
12:20
And even, even though I'm Latina, I don't really understand
12:24
I had worked on a project, I wrote a card game for Latinas.
12:27
And it was really interesting because I was like, I felt like
12:31
some of my references, there were some things that I don't
12:34
I don't know what any of that is.
12:36
Yeah, Chicana is like, you're Mexican American, you're not
12:38
too much of a one thing you're born and raised here, but you
12:41
have those Mexican roots that you're proud of.
12:43
So you pull from both cultures, it, you're not one of them that
12:49
she goes, we're too this for that and that for this.
12:52
You never Selena, the Chicano.
12:54
You know what's ironic about that is I'm Colombian but my mom
12:57
and dad are both Colombian and I have had to only play Chicano
13:01
Like, I've never played a role where I, and like, and I don't
13:04
even know if it's even close that there's a possibility for
13:07
me to play like a Colombian American girl.
13:09
Like I don't, I've never even heard a story of that.
13:11
Yeah, like lately or anything like that, everything, but
13:13
I'm proud of playing a Latina, at least on screen, Chicana
13:16
I just know nothing about the culture.
13:18
Like I'm not Mexican, I don't have a clue.
13:20
I know you think gonna be upset about that.
13:22
What do you think people would be upset about that?
13:25
What are you gonna do?
13:27
I mean, it's acting.
13:27
Yeah, I was born and raised in LA.
13:29
I know about Mexican culture but like, I'm not a Chicana at
13:32
So it is purely acting.
13:33
But I'm waiting for a moment where I can be myself like a Colombian
13:36
American because there's so many things about us that are
13:39
you know, worthy of listening to too.
13:41
I'm trying to think if I thought if I ever seen a role of someone
13:44
playing that, I mean, Sophia Ver, that's what, that's what
13:46
I was thinking like from the streets of Colombia, I, I think
13:50
I heard that the Sofia Vergara modern family, they actually
13:53
made that character extra around her like they made it her
13:58
That's only Colombian represented like that, that successful
14:03
And then Shakira and the Juanez Shakira, Shakira has had a
14:12
Wait, do you, how's your guys in Spanish?
14:14
Because I feel like that's another topic because I know there's
14:15
like this whole thing about being a no sul kid or whatever.
14:18
Look, I'm just going to say it right now.
14:19
My span is not all the way there 100%.
14:23
And what people don't talk about just when I have to interview
14:40
I know it's practice.
14:50
I know you practice it, practice like I literally was just
14:53
like that right before the pandemic and then I went to Mexico
14:56
and now it's just confidence of experience.
14:58
It is confident enough, confidence speak, it's Spanish but
15:01
like especially in my family, I hate speaking around them
15:03
because they're always gonna judging me like you're saying
15:06
Well, bitch, I won't talk at all.
15:08
It just makes when I talk annoyed when I'm like, and I love my
15:13
But the other day when she was visiting and I was trying to like
15:16
you know, explain to her like we were, I was trying to explain
15:18
to her, me and my grandma had the same kind of hair texture.
15:20
So I was buying her edge control, but I don't know how to say
15:23
I was like, oh, it's a comp edge control.
15:25
My mom, what is, how do you say edge control Spanish?
15:31
And it's just, I don't like, I'm also, you know, problematic
15:33
the problematic friend.
15:34
I don't like being corrective.
15:36
So that's why I don't like speaking Spanish for my family.
15:38
But my Spanish is, I actually fun fact I didn't speak English
15:42
in elementary school and now my Spanish is really bad.
15:45
So it's like the opposite.
15:47
How do you think it's important for kids or not to know Spanish
15:51
Yes, it, it helps in your life for sure.
15:53
I can't tell you how many opportunities in hosting them.
15:56
I didn't get big ones because I wasn't too a t fluent.
15:59
And I, and that's why I went to Mexico because I was with Fox
16:03
And they were like, we want you to be on a show but fluent in Spanish
16:06
And I was like, I gotta go in the description.
16:08
I'm like, well for any opportunity, I'll figure it out.
16:10
I would have just done.
16:12
I would have it, but it's hard.
16:14
That's what you think until they put you in a room with an artist
16:16
that can only speak Spanish and you're like, I'm screwed.
16:20
You want your kids to speak Spanish?
16:23
How are you gonna do that?
16:24
If you marry an American.
16:26
Oh, now you gonna bring back I can talk to.
16:30
I will do my best to talk maybe.
16:31
And it's not gonna be proper, perfect Spanish, but I'm gonna
16:34
do my best to teach them Spanish.
16:35
Bring my kids around my mom.
16:37
I'm not gonna not date someone because they don't speak Spanish
16:40
or like my kid is not in Spanish.
16:41
You know, I love how you look at me though American because
16:45
we all know that she loves her cowboys for me.
16:51
I think it's important for the kids.
16:52
I think that's how we connect to our culture, like food and
16:55
That's how we just, I feel very assimilated into the American
16:59
And I'm very aware of that when go visit back in the Dominican
17:02
But I think it's important for us to speak Spanish and to cook
17:05
because when I say cook whatever expertise because that's
17:08
how you stay connected.
17:09
Like, I'm learning a lot about my grandma through recipes
17:12
I'm like, oh, now I understand why she wanted me to take the
17:14
I don't have enough time for this.
17:17
I'm like, I understand now, but I'm like, I think that's how
17:19
you stay connected to your culture and spending time with
17:22
And I feel like it's funny when I speak Spanish, I feel like
17:25
a different person, like a different personality.
17:27
It's a different, like I'm like, I have, I have a different
17:30
confidence, a different person that it's cool to like dive
17:32
you know what I mean?
17:32
When you speak Spanish, it's cool.
17:35
Maybe because we're like our moms, we're like our moms.
17:39
I have an attitude when I'm speaking Spanish.
17:41
Do you feel like it's easier for you to even like dating?
17:45
Since we were kind of talking about that.
17:46
Is it hard for you guys to date somebody outside of your culture
17:50
Since we're so close to like ours, right?
17:53
It does, it does help, right?
17:55
If they can come and speak to your parents and you don't have
17:58
to explain certain things like, OK, me being Mexican American
18:01
like you go to one of our family parties, there's banda, right
18:04
There's people dancing all crazy around like a hat and like
18:07
taking chugs out of a bottle.
18:08
It's a whole funny because my sister fiance is Australian
18:13
like straight from the Australian.
18:14
Like, so when he comes to the house, it's like all Colombians
18:17
and it's like a like a like it's just like a rock in the middle
18:21
But and we have to kind of like we have to kind of like go around
18:24
and we're like, oh, hey, and it just, it just kind of ruins the
18:27
vi No, no, I live years ago.
18:28
Hey, I'm seeing you tonight.
18:30
I'm seeing you tonight.
18:32
It's not even like that.
18:33
He's my brother, but like it definitely makes a difference
18:35
to have like a whole different race and nationality in your
18:39
in your um Have you ever had to explain that?
18:41
Like, for example, I mean, but you know, what's the crazy part
18:44
I'm sorry, I edit that out.
18:47
Even me as a Latina.
18:49
Like I've never been in that experience where I've seen like
18:52
Like I just don't because I also think that it's just like regionality
18:56
We're so different too.
18:57
Like your banda, I'm Colombian.
18:58
You're Dominican baby shower.
18:59
You do baby shower, baby showers.
19:02
I'm not gonna lie before.
19:04
I was like, I could never see myself not dating a Latino.
19:06
Never, never, never.
19:07
Now I'm like, I don't know, my taste is kind of changing.
19:11
I'm a little bit more open now.
19:12
Actually, I'm a lot more open to dating Latino men to dating
19:19
But you know, I think it also stems from the fact that I lived
19:22
All of these things.
19:23
I know you had a very, very polarizing experience growing
19:28
But my high school, middle school was so mixed that we didn't
19:31
really pay attention to national.
19:33
And that, that's the thing.
19:35
Like I was the only Latina in my grade until 18.
19:38
So you're coming from a Latino like, so what is it like being
19:41
Dominican in L A to you?
19:43
Honestly, I didn't want to go there, but I know it was like,
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I'm studying abroad.
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I was like today I said, oh, I to the Uber driver.
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He's like, yes, yes, I speak Spanish.
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Like, I, I don't know, like a lot of people, I did a show here
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A lot of people don't know what Dominican is in L A.
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Like I did a show and they were just like, what is this?
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I, I didn't know about you when I had a friend, you said you didn't
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know about the like, no, like three years ago, I met my first
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friend in acting class.
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Shout out to Francesca.
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She sounds like I know her.
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She's the best and I didn't know that like that country.
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I mean, I knew about the country but I didn't really know because
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I don't have any friends like that to go there.
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So I wanna know about Dominican culture.
20:26
Everyone's so like in a bubble.
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And I'm just so surprised like I don't like even knowing that
20:31
Chingona culture, she cannot exist.
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I'm like, I, I know that it's out there because I'm also following
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all these social media accounts that really prioritize like
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So I was like, I know about it, but I, I was really surprised
20:42
that a lot of people didn't know about Dominican or like Caribbean
20:45
And like, there's so I, and I sometimes I wonder like, are I'm
20:48
gonna say something?
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Are we the same type of Latino because it's like you, there's
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like, so there are also different cultures within our Latinidad
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and we do share the Spanish.
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But when I come over here, I was like so different.
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I don't really, it's not in danger.
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You guys are Caribbean.
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We, I mean we have beaches but it's not, I've never been like
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my grandma for her birthday will always get a, what's a band
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that everybody comes?
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Yes, we'll have that.
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She was like, bitch, but that's like, I don't know, I think
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it's really like my brain hurts.
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I'm like, I got to do a whole teaching assignment here.
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And I'm going to be honest, I did a comedy show.
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I felt really uncomfortable.
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I was like, I don't know if I, if I'm relating like and do you
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feel like it's harder to break into the industry being Dominican
21:36
I think people are starting to really understand that Dominican
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exists like we are, you know, a culture, we have a lot of people
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that are representing for us right now.
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So I think people, I think that those two things together,
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we're creating a lane and it's just a thing that people are
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starting to understand exists.
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But I do have a hard time when it comes to Latino comedy.
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Like all the Latino comedy specials are all Mexican, everything's
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Mexican and I'm just like, so there are other people there
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and now, but I'm also on the brink of now people are starting
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to see other people like Ida Rodriguez exists or Ian Lara,
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there's Darlene and Sasha Mercy.
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Now people are starting to say like, oh there are so many other
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Dominicans that are coming up.
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But before I was in comedy, I just didn't see that.
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I was like, I think everything is just no shade, everything
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I think the industry is so serious.
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Typical and they have like just three slots and they don't
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realize like the vastness and diversity of us Latinos.
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Like we have redheads, blue eyes, green eyes, we have everything
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you can imagine in, in the world that they don't, they can't
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encompass us in one.
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That's not possible.
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Do you guys ever feel like you have to play to being the ambiguous
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Yeah, with my accent, like in Spanish and Spanish, I can't
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be my true Colombian.
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I remember one time they were hiring for a gig and they're like
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your Spanish needs to be neutral.
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And what does that mean?
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Probably more like in Colombia esque, it's like very different
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you know, it's almost like Mexican in a way.
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It's very watered down Spanish.
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Like, like, yeah, you can't Mexican.
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Yeah, they just want it neutral.
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That's because there's not enough diversity in the big, like
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in, in the, in the top.
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So they, they don't know how to like categorize it and how to
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I I do see that the industry is changing.
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Um, I just be feeling uncomfortable.
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I'm like, oh my God, I, it's just so uncomfortable.
23:31
Have you ever, have you ever dated a guy that wasn't Latino
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Yeah, I've dated so many, so many different people, I think
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in New York we are just so much of a potluck that we all kind of
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like, it's not like a thing.
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It's like, oh, this person's whatever.
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It's like, oh I fucked with him.
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But I, I've never, I don't think I've ever dated a Mexican man
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Did I, I don't know.
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I have a long life growing up.
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I was literally, I say this again but I was the only Latina in
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my whole, my first boyfriend would like very American when
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Like very Ame I'm talking like from the top to the bottom.
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We like blue eye was a, see, that's, it was a, I don't really
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know, but I know that they call, they call the white like a that's
24:13
not describing the definition like like a widow.
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What is a, just like a white boy is the definition of a widow
24:20
white, a white boy, white boy.
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That's what I'm saying.
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And I swear, I'm not joking when I went to visit the family.
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When I was 17, they had never seen a Latina that wasn't like
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a, like a worker in their house.
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And they're like, oh they call me the hot Tamale.
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They call you a Hot tale.
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I'm not even, I never even had Tamale at that time because I
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was like, I'm like, I've never had a Tamale.
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They were like, 00, the hot tamales.
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So that is really problematic.
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That's what it was like growing up here in my life.
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So it was just in my life.
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I think it's like, I don't understand how much we're doing
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right now because I don't think I've ever seen something even
25:03
like doing this project.
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I was like, oh, I, I'm not gonna get it.
25:05
I'm not Latina enough.
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Like you guys want me, like, because I just never seen this
25:10
Like, it's either it's very polarizing.
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Like if you turn on Univision, whatever is it to light passing
25:16
Latinas or it's like, I've never seen something like that
25:19
We're from different.
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Like there's so much I'm learning from you ladies.
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I'm like, I feel like I'm, I'm even embarrassed like that.
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I don't understand some of the things that you're like that
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I'm like, wow, like I need to learn more.
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But also in the same way, like us being from L A and with our experience
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like we were like, what, I don't know, all girls school, I
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mean, what did you do?
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I went to, I went to, I went to University of Miami when I went
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over there and I was like, that's what I'm saying.
25:42
They have no Dominicans in Miami either, but they had a lot
25:44
of Colombia and, well, and I saw like, all these successful
25:47
people driving nice car and I was like, wait, those are all
25:49
It was like, world got reversed.
25:52
The first time I feel like there are a lot of white passing Latinos
25:55
and they get to kind of move to the world.
25:57
Like you don't really know, like sometimes I'll be at a party
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I'm like, oh I'm the only person of color here and then this
26:02
bitch starts speaking Spanish like why you didn't say nothing
26:04
I was uncomfortable the whole time and could have been right
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You don't look, you could be not Spanish and they were not Latino
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Can you, have you guys ever hidden?
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Being Latina hated just when I was in elementary school?
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I didn't, I don't hide it.
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I just didn't, you didn't switch.
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I mean you try to be like, I'm not Latina.
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I never said I wasn't Latina.
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Everybody knew I was Latina.
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Everybody look at my mom and hear her speak and be like, OK,
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she's Latina but I just wouldn't, you know, I don't think I
26:32
can hide it but I have been not believed they like, oh you're
26:37
It's been the opposite for me where people are like they don't
26:39
know that I'm Dominican even other Dominicans like, are you
26:42
So I've had that opposite experience switching means keeping
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your job at wherever you work at.
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But I've had to code switch.
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But I never, I have this weird, like New York thing where you
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can tell that um I'm gonna fight.
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You don't have code switching is like, OK, for instance, you're
27:02
with your family and you're speaking what type of way and you
27:04
have, you embody who you are and then you get into like maybe
27:06
a corporate or professional environment and then you have
27:09
to kind of assimilate and act a certain type of way.
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It's like you're not your true self because you know that maybe
27:16
when it like culturally it's different or whatever it might
27:19
I feel like if you're anything mixed with anything Asian American
27:22
what are, you know, people have to code switch.
27:25
Do you guys have ever put on your accent even more?
27:28
Do you ever feel like you need to extra Latina era?
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No, no, I'm not going to do that even right now sometimes like
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am I coming off too casual?
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Like am I being Latina enough?
27:36
This is a representation of a New York Latina from very Latina
27:40
you know, and that's who I'm going to be.
27:43
I'm not going to spice it sometimes, you know, you do projects
27:45
like, oh please put more.
27:47
I'm like, no, when I wrote that card game, I was a little uncomfortable
27:49
when we did the photo shoot because they put like a flower.
27:52
I don't know if you guys are planning a flower photo shoot,
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Um But they put all this extra stuff.
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I'm like, this is not what I do day to day.
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Like, I don't know, it was just weird.
28:01
Like people have their perception of what it is to be Latina
28:03
and they put it on you and it's just weird and if it doesn't fit
28:06
their box, they have an issue with it conversation and you
28:10
guys were talking a little bit about dating American men.
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What have you guys faced fetishism?
28:15
I can't believe I'm dating a Latina girl or she's so spicy.
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I know when I say I'm Colombian, I get a lot of oh, every time
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I'm in an Uber, they're like, are you Dominican?
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So what am I going to do for you?
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What does that change for you?
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I'm not going to lie when they say 00 you're Latina.
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It doesn't bother me if anything.
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I'm like, yeah, I love that.
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You love it and I love that.
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But I don't like what they say mostly is like, oh you're so spicy
28:52
These are the words fireball and spicy but it's never like
28:55
It's almost like they love it.
28:57
They love, they need to spice, it's spicy.
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It's just we have we have fun.
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Like we have like, for me, one of the biggest problems I've
29:05
had in my life is being called the flirt in my growing up.
29:08
But it's not, I'm like, I'm like in Colombia, I'm not a floor
29:11
I'm like a saint because we, we talk to everyone, we have manners
29:19
we talk to the janitor, we talk to the president, we talk to
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Like we, that's the way that we are.
29:27
We're friendly and, and, and it gets misconstrued here in
29:30
the that we're like, we're flourished or whatever because
29:32
they don't understand that people are like the cultural thing
29:34
It's a cultural thing.
29:35
I have a weird fetish and I sorry is I like the like a cupid's
29:40
It's a very Caribbean thing.
29:43
Like, what the thing that when you look at a guy like this is
29:45
my like, you know, you have, she has a cowboy fetish, cowboy
29:48
I like, I like hands and feet.
29:52
Like I like a good pair of feet and a good pair of hands.
29:55
For me, the fetishism becomes a problem when they put in like
29:58
preferential treatment.
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Like, oh I will, I am made a whole song about Latinas, which
30:02
I thought was cute, but also like I am Yeah.
30:04
Why are you just pinning women against other women?
30:08
What am I looking at?
30:09
Was he pitting them or was he a preach?
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Sometimes that's the thing.
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I think sometimes that problem with fetishism can be like
30:15
someone can pin again, like they could just put women against
30:19
And whenever, like I've dated men with like, like I just wanna
30:22
make sure that you're not a problematic man because I will
30:24
have, I will have to correct you.
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What's a problematic man?
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Like someone that is like, I want, I wanna wanna date Latinas
30:29
because I, like that's the only time.
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It's fetishism like they just wanna date you because it means
30:37
Well, we're gonna have to, we're gonna have to bring the um
30:40
have you ever been asked?
30:42
This is weird but to speak Spanish when you're having an intimate
30:48
And that could be fit.
30:49
I can't even say the word.
30:50
What if it just turns them on and they can do that.
30:53
I can't even say a peep.
30:56
II I can't like, hello.
30:59
I just want to give it back to you to call out.
31:02
I don't do that stuff but go on.
31:05
That's your man and like he's into it and it turns him on like
31:11
Oh my God, you, you can say anything.
31:15
You can say they be like this and they have no idea words.
31:20
So this is what I think about.
31:22
If an American guy is like, can you please speak in Spanish
31:24
You can literally say anything you like.
31:26
Let's, you know what I mean?
31:31
Don't worry about it.
31:32
Don't be intimidated by it.
31:33
I don't mind it if that man.
31:36
No sex in 10 months.
31:38
So I know everyone knows my business.
31:43
How do you feel good?
31:44
Do you feel like you're harboring that energy?
31:46
I think the next time I have sex, maybe we'll say something
31:50
Are you waiting for the gras?
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I would say papas fritas.
32:01
I it is a form of sexual behavior in which gratification is
32:08
this is a really strong definition for a word.
32:11
I don't understand any of this, a form of sexual behavior which
32:14
in which gratification is strongly linked to a particular
32:19
Um But I think this is more general fetishism.
32:22
It's like, oh, I like feet fetish.
32:24
I think that they're only sexually attracted to you because
32:32
No, I mean, I think there's a preference that Latinas, you
32:36
know, if they're fetishizing you, they people down while
32:40
they're like, oh, I don't date this type because I prefer Latinas
32:43
They're more submissive preferences are allowed.
32:45
Preferences are allowed without having to put somebody down
32:47
So you putting up somebody up on a pedestal that's nasty.
32:51
But it's like if you just like that is my preference, that's
32:53
fine without you having to put somebody down.
32:55
So it's like you saying, I don't date white boys because I like
33:02
What does it matter?
33:06
Do you get what I'm saying?
33:08
I think it's easier to see when you're in a more diverse city
33:12
because I have to, like in New York people do be pinning women
33:15
Like, for example, I have an ex that used to date a lot of white
33:18
women and they'll put them on a pedestal.
33:20
I don't like Latinas because they fight all the time and they
33:22
started to generalize and that's why that's a fetish where
33:27
you have to put me down at the expense of your, you want to date
33:30
white women, white women but don't put me down.
33:33
You know what I'm saying?
33:34
Or sometimes they'll have a preference for white Latinas
33:37
versus black Latinas and it's just like, that's rude.
33:39
That's mean you don't have to put somebody down what you saying
33:44
Yeah, you can have a not, you can have a preference but a fetish
33:47
is when you're being a little extreme and being kind of, you're
33:49
being maybe sometimes prejudiced in your choice.
33:52
Have you ever had a fetish?
33:54
I have a weird fetish and sorry, I like a cupid's bow.
33:59
It's a very Caribbean.
34:02
There are certain men that they have a, see, I don't want my
34:06
Is that a fetish or is that just like, I love men with a specific
34:11
It's so good because men that are out working and it gathers
34:13
all the sweat right there.
34:18
I don't have a thing.
34:21
What's the thing that when you look at a guy like this is, you
34:23
know, she has a cowboy fetish, cowboy boot.
34:26
I like, I like hands and feet.
34:30
I like a good pair of feet and a good pair of hands on.
34:34
Like men bring us some feet.
34:37
Make sure you guys like, I don't like you but I can when I look
34:43
at a foot, like I feel my body kind of shit.
34:44
Wait, I'm sorry, I, I feel like like when I look at it, how do
34:48
you feel looking at this?
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I'm like a good foot.
34:52
I sweating a little bit because one of these feet making the
35:04
I know it made me feel all the design.
35:08
That shit was really funny and I'm not into guys.
35:11
I never really looked at man's toes like that, but I like, I
35:14
like a good pair of hands.
35:15
You know what a turn off like a purple toe.
35:23
I'm gonna tell you why because they're working, they're out
35:25
there working, he stubbed his toe making money.
35:27
He's doing something.
35:29
I love guys that have blue collar jobs.
35:31
So if they're getting hurt in the process.
35:33
That's when they lose a finger working.
35:35
My dad lost three of his fingers.
35:37
Your dad doesn't have three fingers.
35:41
He's, no, I love your dad.
35:46
No, he was working on some machinery at the, oh, my God.
35:48
I can't even like half of three of his fingers chopped off.
35:52
I'm not even kidding.
35:53
He picked up the, the remainder of his fingers drove himself
35:56
to the hospital and they tried stitching him on.
35:58
Didn't take after like a couple of weeks they still stayed
36:01
black and then now he just has like three short fingers.
36:03
But, you know, my dad was working, he was putting in that work
36:06
you know, I had a lot of uncles with like no fingers.
36:09
And when I was younger I'm like, oh, but now I'm like, oh, just
36:11
from, I don't know, to me if my man comes home, sweaty, dirty
36:15
fingers, all the things.
36:17
Oh my God, I'm into it.
36:19
And now I'm never going to look at a missing finger the same
36:24
That's the thing about learning.
36:25
I didn't even know you could get your finger.
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I sue because that's a work.
36:29
My dad did it to himself.
36:31
It was one of those a, it's inappropriate that Rosalia is in
36:35
the Latino conversation.
36:38
She is, she is Spanish.
36:41
Latino Americano is what she's saying.
36:43
You're either from Latino America or you're from Spain.
36:46
So it's like a big actual controversy in the music industry
36:49
Should Rosalia even be nominated for a lot of these Latino
36:52
awards because she is from Spain.
36:54
What does being Dominican mean to you and being Mexican mean
36:57
to you, Dominican means to me being the baddest bitch, always
37:01
being really strong in my opinions, being very opinionated
37:07
I see I have some wine also controlling and just having a lot
37:10
of confidence when I walk into the room, I know that I'm, I'm
37:14
just, I'm excited to be on this planet is the best place.
37:16
It is the best place on the planet.
37:19
The Dominican Republic, best place on the planet.
37:23
Well, that's funny because that's exactly how I feel about
37:26
I feel like Colombia is one of the best places on the planet
37:33
I can't take both of you guys to Mexican and get that.
37:35
If we went on a week.
37:37
One, Colombia, one Mexico, one year.
37:39
All switch opinions.
37:40
No, no, you would still think Colombia was.
37:42
You know, I was trying to be nice.
37:45
Have you ever had a, I've been to Colombia.
37:51
Yeah, I went to Bogota and Medellin.
37:52
I did a study abroad.
37:54
I have a whole Colombian family too.
37:57
What do you think of the men out there?
37:58
I was in high school when I went.
38:05
Yeah, I did beautifully grown adult though.
38:10
I'm sure Colombia is cool.
38:12
Talk to me about what's exciting about Colombia.
38:16
The food is the paella are really good, which is a little bit
38:21
like a, it's like a barbecue of everything.
38:23
They, they call Colombia the lungs of the world because on
38:26
the equator it's on the equator and has, every season has the
38:29
Amazon, it has the coast, it has snow, it has everything you
38:33
But the best part is the people, the people are so cool and nice
38:37
and, and, and like, they have good manners and, and they're
38:41
respectful of others.
38:42
Like the majority I think are and I don't know, I just, I just
38:46
love it and that's good.
38:48
What about Dr, what's so good about, what do you do about vacation
38:54
Every country has ad r do you have a great experience?
39:00
I did not want to be here.
39:02
I had a great experience at Dr, the guys out there are amazing
39:06
I love, but I did do music.
39:11
But I did the one guy that I did date that was Dominican in college
39:14
like, ripped me apart.
39:16
Yeah, he was kind of machista.
39:18
But that's how all Latino men.
39:21
That's what I was feeling at the comedy show.
39:23
They were like, why do you, why are you on stage that I could
39:27
feel things when I'm on stage from the Mexican men.
39:30
When I was here doing the show, they were all like, why are you
39:33
So, if we're all Latinos, you're Dominican, you're Mexican
39:37
How do you individually embrace your Latin culture?
39:41
That makes you Latina here in L A right now.
39:44
Well, I'm staying with my friend and we're both Dominican
39:47
and every day we listen to Bachata, but I want to know we were
39:50
talking about, you were using the word Latino.
39:52
What do you think about those new words?
39:53
Like Latina, Latinx, Latina.
39:55
So it's the same thing.
39:58
I don't want to fight with the rest of the country.
40:00
I feel like we're in a Miss Universe pageant.
40:02
Honestly, here's the thing.
40:04
Nowadays we nowadays everything is so political, everything
40:09
everything is politicized and it's so annoying.
40:11
It's either you believe it, you either like Latinx or you think
40:14
it's like dumb or you either do this.
40:15
It's like every, everybody has their opinion.
40:17
So it's so hard to say anything because you feel like you're
40:19
gonna constantly offend someone.
40:22
Now, you gotta Ivana, you got a role and they put something
40:25
in the script that you don't really wanna do, but it's a really
40:29
important job I would do because it's acting and it's not my
40:33
It's their story I'm just hired.
40:35
But then what if people can't they be like, oh, you took this
40:37
role and you did this thing or whatever?
40:39
It has nothing to do with me as an actress or you being an actress
40:43
I wouldn't those sex scenes, I'm like, I don't know how you
40:48
Very tasteful and a really good director and a really good
40:50
film and a many things that can make a difference.
40:52
I'm not going to waste my time.
40:53
I think when they put a second body in there, like the double
40:57
double for my sex scenes.
40:59
But yeah, I feel like we talked about a lot.
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What is that thing called?
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What's the word for that when you're proud of your nationality
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I just want to let you know, I just learned English.
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So what's your guys' opinion on like, OK, if somebody's actually
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you feel like mocking your culture or like appreciating it
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like if people are cultural creating it.
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Yeah, I think with Dominicans a little different, we are so
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excited like when people want to get into like them both and
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everything I will say there was a song that Rosalia put out
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was a Bachata and I did not like that.
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I did not like she put a song out with the weekend.
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Is that appropriate that she's doing Bachata?
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It's inappropriate that Rosalia is in the Latino conversation
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She is Spanish she's not Latina.
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So Latino Americano is what she's saying there, you're either
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from Latino America or you're from Spain.
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So it's like a big actual controversy in the music industry
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Should Rosalia even be nominated for a lot of these Latino
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awards because she is from Spain that is influenced by comedians
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that aren't Latinos and you use.
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So we're influenced by them.
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So she was influenced by a Latin culture and she could use that
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to influence your music.
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Just you can, you can be influenced by Richard Pryor.
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I think when you're taking up space, that's the thing about
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appropriation versus appreciation.
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Are you taking up space or like are you giving opportunities
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Like an infinite amount of space to there is not an infinite
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amount of space, Ivana, not in entertainment.
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Do you, do you guys have TV shows?
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No, but not in his office.
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But I think there could be, you gave me a TV show.
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I think there could be actually actually, I think it's, I forget
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what award show but it's happening in Spain.
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But she got treated differently than Latinos here in America
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That's the thing Spanish people get to be white passing.
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So that's what I'm saying.
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You're Argenti but Argentina, that's a great example.
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Yeah, all of them are so white passing.
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So the Latin Grammys are leaving the US 2023 award.
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It's actually going to be happening in Spain.
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That was a huge controversy.
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I remember seeing that on Twitter because they're like, why
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are the Latin Latin coming from Latino America?
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Like Latin Grammy Award is going to be actually happening
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Did anybody think so?
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Can we bring money out over here?
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Please, please me, you guys, I have a question which is do you
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guys think Spanish people are treated differently in America
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Yes, because some of them are white passing, they get it is
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a power dynamic is also you're saying the skin color will make
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a difference that absolutely the skin color.
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But also classism, you get to come out here with a different
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power dynamic than it is when you just what about Argentinians
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who are blonde and blue eyed?
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I'm saying when I say white passing is that you can have a corporate
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job and no one would know that you are white unless you speak
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Spanish like, oh they would have just been like whatever,
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you know, but I feel like if you work hard at a job and you do really
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really well at it regardless of what like you're gonna rise
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to the top, I feel like, but I'm not talking about the fact that
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you can't rise to the top.
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I'm talking about at the, your starting point is just not equal
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Are you gonna rise to the top?
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We are determined people, we're gonna do that, you know, What's
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I think being Latina has been one of my biggest assets in the
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commun like in, in getting jobs.
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Like I, when I said, when I go into a place, I feel proud and I
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feel like it's what sets me apart.
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But I'm not saying I didn't say it was a bird.
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I'm saying that some people within our own la like all of us
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could be up for a job.
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There's a likelihood that you ladies might get it because
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you guys fit the Latina model, but people are still getting
44:35
So a great example is getting a stand up special.
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I would probably not get a Latina stand up special.
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I'm going to get a mainstream one because people in the biggest
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market is the Mexican market.
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So because I don't fit in, in that market, even though I am Latina
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it's not, I'm not going to get that job.
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So you would probably get a job before me because there's a
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demographic out there.
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We're still scared to take the risk on the thing.
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What do we do to make that a common thing to make more opportunities
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Well, thank Jennifer Lopez, please.
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I think this is a great example of the network was like, let's
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have varying opinions and perspectives.
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There is a great example of like now we're doing it, someone's
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definitely going to copy because that's what Trailblazers
45:19
Nobody's doing this.
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And I'm like, oh, I really like that dynamic of them exploring
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It's not like, it's not a bad thing.
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And we're literally trailblazing as we're speaking about
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I mean, when you're right, you're bringing up points where
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I'm like, you know what?
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I never even thought about that because I think similarly
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to you, my experience is when I go in for a job, they love that
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I'm Latina that I'm bilingual for the most part.
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Like, you know, you are bilingual.
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Like all those things, if you want me, to be honest, I feel like
45:44
it definitely works at my advantage and I feel like sometimes
45:47
people are very quick to be like, well, you're Latino, which
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means your doors are shut in front of you and you are 100% like
45:53
And I'm like, you know what, I'm not, I don't wanna sit here
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and ever live with this like I am put down, I wanna walk into
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every room and be like, you know what if I don't get it and people
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have biases against me, that's fine.
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I'm gonna keep on pushing and I'm gonna keep on triumphing
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regardless because let's be real whether you are Asian American
46:08
whether you're black American, even if you're white American
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like how sometimes we even talk about white people.
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Like people are getting put down and have biases against them
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Everybody matter what if you're a man you're dealing with
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Yeah, you might get drafted to the war.
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You're dealing with so many things against you as a man, you
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have to be successful to get, you know, women, you have to be
46:26
Like men are put down, women are put down.
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This life is not meant for anybody to just get a hall pass and
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So no matter what you're gonna walk into rooms or situations
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where you're like, you know what, I might have to fight a little
46:36
bit harder for space for visibility or whatever.
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But everybody out here is fighting different biases against
46:42
Yeah, everybody is um you think that there's like a token Latina
46:47
I do, I do believe it would be like, so I feel like because she
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was so successful in modern family, people want to duplicate
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So then that becomes a token like that's what I want.
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I want to get more of that.
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But there's so many other kind of Latinas.
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Now, all of us are a little bit more centric.
47:06
Some of us are more laid back.
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There's so much diversity within Latinidad.
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So I feel like that when I think of people hiring for that role
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I feel like people want that.
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I and I get what you mean and that's why like when you were talking
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about what you said, I was like, OK, that's interesting.
47:18
I never thought about that maybe one type of Latino would take
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president over another and it sucks.
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But now that I was getting about it, we're talking like this
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and we're so passionate because we really love our Latino
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Absolutely beautiful thing.
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And all I want is for everyone around me to, to like, learn about
47:35
it and to enjoy and I bring my friends over and they dance salsa
47:38
and like I know for a fact that I have enriched the lives of my
47:41
friends, my American friends and that they love it because
47:44
So it's not, not because because I exposed them to it.
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Like the thing is that they don't have exposure so they can't
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I feel the same way like in the comedy clubs in New York, like
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a lot of people didn't really, there's not a lot of Latinas
47:56
I really am one of the only ones exposing people that yeah,
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and now other people are getting opportunities like, oh this
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Let me try to get more of that.
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So I'm literally in the clubs all trailblazing.
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This conversation got complicated, complicated, but I like
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it because I feel like if someone needed to start this conversation
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I hope more people do have this conversation.
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And I think there's still more to unpack.
48:21
I'm sure it's going to come throughout different episodes
48:23
but I appreciate how there's a safe space and we're all like
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and I'm proud of how proud we are of our countries.
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We really could be, Miss Universe Dominican Republic.
48:35
And I appreciate and Dominican Republic and I, and I appreciate
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thank God for closing the episode.
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I appreciate how we're all listening to each other from different
48:48
I'm going to wrap this up.
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But what's something you want to take away from this conversation
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I wanna take away that like, yeah, sometimes we do live in our
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own bubbles and hearing from you because I feel like we have
48:57
similar experiences and we view the world from a very similar
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It's really nice like hearing from the east coast, even like
49:04
again, skin tone, everything you're where you're from like
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you know, being dr it's so different and it's so nice actually
49:09
hearing that because again, we don't really meet a lot of Dominicans
49:11
out here or even people from New York.
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So it's like, whoa, it's like, hey man, what, what I give him
49:17
is that we're to be proud of where you're from.
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Like we are each equal as in love and proud of our cultures.
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And that's a beautiful thing that means that we have something
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to offer for everybody.
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You know what I mean?
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And we should accept other like Spanish people too.
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We're not, everyone's accepted here, everyone's out of their
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And we have to see that, you know, it's kind of like you had to
49:35
step in somebody's world to understand and I accept it into
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yours just right here.
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And I'm already ready to go to Dr today.
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Let's go Dominican and I took inspiration.
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I'm excited about this conversation.
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I'm excited building on it.
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Um I'm anxious but I think it's important for me, for me as someone
49:55
that is, I'm so stubborn about my identity and I worked really
49:59
hard to love myself.
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I am being more open and flexible about.
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Well, there are other experiences out there and I don't have
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to just constantly feel, I guess I think it's just hard as a
50:10
woman that's a black Latina to be like, oh other white Latinas
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get all the opportunities and they get more praise and I'm
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starting to learn that everyone is so not that I didn't know
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See, I shouldn't have drank wine before this conversation
50:20
I am appreciative of all our different experiences and I'm
50:24
not taking any offense to it.
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I think before I used to get really offended when I was like
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oh, they get opportunities.
50:30
And I'm like, you know what, what's for everybody is for everybody
50:33
and I'm just excited that we get to have this conversation
50:36
So yeah, we clearly need a part two in this conversation.
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So please like, subscribe, comment, comment, you think,
50:43
comment, if you think I'm out of pocket or if we're out of pocket
50:46
or if she's right or Dominicans back me up and we want to hear
50:52
I just learned English, we want to hear from you and we might
50:57
even revisit this episode in the future.
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And also if there's any topics about anything.
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Also, it is a safe space.
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It is a safe space at the wrong Colombia Dominican Republic
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Thank you from Santos.
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