- 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
I am more than an immigration activist.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Undocumented people get arrested all the time. I get arrested, and it's front-page news. I feel guilt.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.
- Headquarters
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- Nov 07, 2020
Facebook's headquarters is a two-story building at the end of a quiet, tree-lined street. Zuckerberg nicknamed it the Bunker. Facebook has grown so fast that this is the company's fifth home in six years - the third in Palo Alto. There is virtually no indication outside of the Bunker's tenant.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2005, MTV Networks considered buying Facebook for seventy-five million dollars. Yahoo! and Microsoft soon offered much more. Zuckerberg turned them all down.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Facebook's privacy policies are confusing to many people, and the company has changed them frequently, almost always allowing more information to be exposed in more ways.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2007, Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would become a 'platform,' meaning that outside developers could start creating applications that would run inside the site. It worked.
- Clerk
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day when I was 16, I rode my bike to the nearby DMV office to get my driver's permit. Some of my friends already had their licenses, so I figured it was time. But when I handed the clerk my green card as proof of U.S. residency, she flipped it around, examining it. 'This is fake,' she whispered. 'Don't come back here again.'
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kathy Dewar, my high-school English teacher, introduced me to journalism. From the moment I wrote my first article for the student paper, I convinced myself that having my name in print - writing in English, interviewing Americans - validated my presence here.
- School
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- Nov 07, 2020
While in high school, I worked part time at Subway, then at the front desk of the local YMCA, then at a tennis club, until I landed an unpaid internship at 'The Mountain View Voice,' my hometown newspaper.
- Immigration
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everybody could agree that our immigration system is broken. We have not told the truth about it.
- American Citizens
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- Nov 07, 2020
Laws are getting passed in states like Alabama that basically would punish American citizens who are 'harboring' people. Since the federal government hasn't been able to muster or to get comprehensive immigration reform passed, states are taking it upon themselves to police and enforce laws.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact of the matter is, this country is not going to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants. What are we supposed to do with them? What are we supposed to do with these kids?
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned.
- Filmmaker
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a journalist, and I'm a filmmaker. I have an organization that's all about telling stories.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't supposed to be walking with Mark Zuckerberg. I wasn't supposed to be interviewing Romney's sons. Why was I doing it? Because I wanted to survive. I wanted to live. I wanted to earn what it means to be an American.
- Prove
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to do what you have to do. I wanted to work. I wanted to prove that I was worthy of being here... and I was gonna do whatever it took to prove that.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think everyone deserves dignity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can call me whatever you want to call me, but I am an American. No one can take that away from me. No, no one can.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're undocumented, you're supposed to keep your head down and be quiet and pay taxes, social security - even though people don't know that we do those things - and not say anything.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a gay man, I think the role of culture is central to how you change politics - culture is politics.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020