Jessica "Don't call me Latina" Alba

These are some of her quotes published by Perez Hilton today:

I read this last night and just sat there shaking my head. Ah, the arrogance (and stupidity) of youth. I hope she comes to regret some of her comments.

"I've got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out."

"My grandfather was the only Mexican at his college, the only Hispanic person at work and the only one at the all-white country club. He tried to forget his Mexican roots, because he never wanted his kids to be made to feel different in America. He and my grandmother didn't speak Spanish to their children. Now, as a third-generation American, I feel as if I have finally cut loose."

I agree with you that she's a bitch.

As a person of minority status myself, I can understand her frustration in being expected to embody a certain ethnic identity just because of the way she looks. If she wasn't accepted fully by the Latino community while growing up, and she doesn't speak Spanish, what exactly makes her a Latina besides her looks? I think she feels resentful that now that she's famous, she's supposed to assume this ethnic role model identity because people are too shallow to look beyond ethnic features when it comes to minorities. Being a Latina means more than just looking Latina, but unfortunately to a lot of people, simply looking like a certain ethnicity means that you have to be a certain way.

ethnicity, it's not really anyone else's business to determine that identity for her. (However, I think calling her "latina" is a lot more accurate than calling her an "actress.")

sound unpleasant...

edit: or a dull knife

Even if she is bigoted.