- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Demographically speaking, young white people are not in the majority in this country; they're in the minority. My question is, if they're not the majority anymore, then what happens? How do things change? Or do they change at all?
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I got to this country when I was 12, I've been obsessed with this idea of whiteness and blackness because I realized I was neither. For me, it was so important to me to make a film that focused on whiteness because you wouldn't have blackness if you didn't have whiteness.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people saw that the film was called 'White People,' many got very defensive. I've been getting some very interesting emails - and I'm used to hate mail, believe me. I think this idea that we grouped white people together is offensive to people.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always really wanted to make a film on what it means to be white in a country that's getting less and less white.
- Francisco
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I arrived in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, I entered sixth grade and quickly grew to love my new home, family and culture. I discovered a passion for language, though it was hard to learn the difference between formal English and American slang.
- Good Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the surface, I've created a good life. I've lived the American dream. But I am still an undocumented immigrant.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were many factors as to why I decided to come out as being undocumented. One of them is because I look the way that I look; I don't look like the 'stereotypical undocumented' person.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am undoubtedly one of the more, if not the most, privileged undocumented immigrants in America. And for us at Define American, which is this culture campaign group that I founded with some friends, culture trumps politics.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot change the politics issue until we change the culture around it; until we talk about what parents do for their kids as an act of love. That's a cultural conversation.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, politics is culture. I became a journalist, and later a filmmaker, to get to know my new country and my volatile place in it as a gay, undocumented Filipino-American.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a newcomer to America who learned to 'speak American' by watching movies, I firmly believe that to change the politics of immigration and citizenship, we must change culture - the way we portray undocumented people like me and our role in society.
- Immigration
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- Nov 07, 2020