Bilingual In The Boonies » marketing http://bilingualintheboonies.com mami tries Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:21:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 I have no idea what a chalupa is or We’re not all the same http://bilingualintheboonies.com/2009/03/31/i-have-no-idea-what-a-chalupa-is-or-were-not-all-the-same/ http://bilingualintheboonies.com/2009/03/31/i-have-no-idea-what-a-chalupa-is-or-were-not-all-the-same/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:16:00 +0000 Carrie http://bilingualintheboonies.com/2009/03/31/i-have-no-idea-what-a-chalupa-is-or-were-not-all-the-same/
Way back in the dark ages of Nashville, when there were no more than like 5 Latinos here (the 1990s), a co-worker asked me what a chalupa was. I told him I had no idea. There was shock I did not know the answer. 
“I’m Cuban. Cube-AN. Not Mexican. We don’t traditionally eat chalupas.”
Needless to say, I have spent a lot of my time here explaining that “we’re not all the same.”

So, keeping up the conversation I recently started about marketing to Latinos, my friend John at Hispanic Nashville Notebook posted a series of commercials targeted at Latinos. This particular Bud Light one cracked me up because it plays on the idea that Americans see us as all the same. The other commercials John posted are worth a look. Go see them here .

And, I still don’t know what a chalupa is.
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We Latins are all related, right?
Or, we have a cousin who knows a cousin who knows a cousin of the person we are tracking down?
Well, who here is related to the beautiful new mother that is Salma Hayek?
Valentina Paloma needs a Pollito shirt.
What do you think, Candela?

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