On dumbing down and ethnicity:
I found this from a site called
Multiplicative Identity:
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In 2007, Touchstone Pictures pulls the plug on "Deep in the Heart of Texas," a feature film starring Eva Longoria, about a fully assimilated Mexican American woman, saying there is nothing particularly "Latina" about an educated, professional shopaholic from Texas; meaning, the character is "too American" for audiences to believe as "Latina". (Meanwhile, Texas is no longer a majority-white state, and most Latinos there speak English…)
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If the above is true, isn't Touchtone basically saying that America is "too stupid" to believe that a Latina can be educated and a shopaholic? (though another POV is that they didn't want Eva typecast...this character doesn't sound too different from Gabi Solis...she's probably an EDUCATED Gabi)