When in Rome

So, you're looking for a dishwasher job in LA. Let's say you're from Nicaragua or El Salvador. So, to get this job, you try to act more like an Angeleno. Bad call. Better to try and pass as Mexican.

It's an interesting article in that it challenges our notion of culture in a pluralistic part of the country. In LA, whites, African-Americans and Mexican-Americans have been exchanging culture for years, so it shouldn't be a surprise that Latino cultures in LA would do the same. However, in LA the implications are larger due to the size of the Latino population. Is a trans-Hispania culture developing in the shadows of the skyscrapers?

Of course, these transformations always occur when cultures mingle (well, perhaps with the exception of the balkan-like city of Boston), but we (I?) always assume it happens between the majority community and a minority one, rather than between minority communities. Then again, who's to say who is the majority community here.

Tienen un gran día.