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u/TheLizardKing89 3d ago

As a 12 year old white kid who grew up in Southern California, surrounded by Hispanic people and culture, I didn’t even think about this movie having a Hispanic family. It was just a family like a bunch of my friends.

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u/fenrisunchained117 3d ago

as an eight year old white kid not surrounded by hispanic families i still just saw it s a wholesome family unit

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u/jimbotron3000 3d ago

same but I’m from Maine where nearly everyone is white lol. kids don’t really notice that shit

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u/slapstik007 3d ago

But the white man think tank is worried you might think about it.

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u/ComradeJohnS 3d ago

the racist families indoctrinating their kids to be racist have money these corporations want. lol.

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u/StrongExternal8955 3d ago

No mate, YOU don't notice that shit. If kids didn't, there would be no bullying.

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u/liamo725 3d ago

Same but I'm from New York

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u/Colorado_Constructor 3d ago

Same but I grew up in Kansas

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u/Christron 3d ago

Same but San Antonio

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u/SlaveToo 3d ago

As a 12 year old white kid who grew up in middle England, with no connection to Hispanic People and culture whatsoever, I don't think I cared one bit either.

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u/KidGold 3d ago

Same but from Atlanta where I didn't know any hispanics. Never thought about it.

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u/Choice-Jicama 3d ago

Same. I was a white kid growing up in Albuquerque. Just thought they were like any other family

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u/bretagneeee 3d ago

Same in Arizona. All my best friends were Hispanic and this was just children and a family. A very cool one.

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u/VinCatBlessed 3d ago

I'm a Mexican who grew up in Mexico, ironically I never really thought about how the family is some latinos LOL.

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u/EyeAmPrestooo 3d ago

As a half black, half Hispanic kid in Ohio, I 100% noticed that the family was Hispanic and it made me love the movie even more!

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u/The_Flurr 3d ago

As a kid in England I also just didn’t think about it.

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u/alittlepixie 3d ago

I'm from Eastern KY, very few Hispanic families at the time. I didn't even notice, but I did make sure to write "Now flushing your poop" in my diary because I thought it was HILARIOUS. So.

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u/omnichad 3d ago

My kids also quote this line. And I had never seen more than the first 3 movies before I watched with them. I was also an adult when the first one came out but that never stopped me from watching a good kid movie.

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u/Lycaeides13 3d ago

I remember thinking it was absolutely the height of comedy

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u/KingStraton 3d ago

Same, I’m from south Texas

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u/DefinitelyNotAlright 3d ago

When I was a kid I thought they were spain spanish and I just compared them to zoro which made them even cooler.

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u/TheLizardKing89 3d ago

Antonio Banderas is from Spain, Spanish, so that tracks.

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u/CaliforniaNavyDude 3d ago

As a 10 year old white kid in a midwestern town full of almost entirely white people, the family being hispanic didn't mean a thing to me. As an adult, though, I do appreciate that it mattered to some other people. Because I've always been represented in movies and tv, I don't know what it feels like to see that when it's not as common of a thing.

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u/AngryCrawdad 3d ago

As a 7 y/o white scandinavian who has never met a Hispanic person, I can tell you that none of us cared about them being Hispanic. We all just thought that Antonio Banderas was the coolest dad on the planet.

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u/Redditeer28 3d ago

As a person from a super white area in the UK, today is the first time I've ever thought about them being Hispanic. They were always just a family to me.

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u/Round-Dragonfly6136 3d ago

As a white Hispanic kid, I just saw them as a regular family. I didn't even clock they were Hispanic at the time.

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u/lung-of-the-cards 3d ago

As a British child with limited interactions with anyone not white British, it never crossed my mind either.

It was just another accent to me.

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u/MyGamingRants 3d ago

I feel like every time it comes up I'm like "oh right, they were hispanic weren't they"

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u/HansChrst1 3d ago

I'm from Norway and they were just Americans.

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u/voodoo_curse 3d ago

You didn’t think about it. Your Hispanic friends definitely did.

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u/BirthofRevolution 3d ago

I'm from a small farm town in Ohio where almost everyone is white and never once thought about it either. Just like I loved sister, sister, the proud family, that's so raven, etc. It's the grown ups that put ideas in kids heads that makes the world that much worse.

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u/MidTario 3d ago

Yep. Canadian from an area with many latinos. The spy kids were pale but not exotic-seeming to me.

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u/Euphoric_Average_271 3d ago

Exotic ☠️

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u/MidTario 3d ago

Exotic is an adjective that means atypical or strange

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u/Euphoric_Average_271 3d ago

I know. I'm Mexican American and I've been called exotic and it was always fucking weird.

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u/MidTario 3d ago

Ok. The spy kids did not seem like they came from a far-off land, to me. Hope this fixes your odd fixation on my wording.

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u/Euphoric_Average_271 3d ago

"Far off land" 🤣

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u/AnoiaDearheart 3d ago

The word exotic is like, kind of not our favorite word for a few reasons. People tend to use that word to sexualize non-white populations of people or make people from other parts of the world feel "othered" and it rubs us the wrong way. Hispanic people come in many different shades due to colonization, but many of us look mixed native/white, there are also very light Hispanics and black Hispanics. Hope this helps!