I Also Identify As A Latin Person,

We Didn't Have Television Until I Was About Eight Years Old, So It Was Either The Movies Or Radio. A Lot Of Radio Drama. That Was Our Television, You Know. We Had To Use Our Imagination. So It Was Really Those Two Things, And The Comics, That I Immersed Myself In As A Child.

I Think For A Lot Of So-called Post-colonial Peoples, There's A Feeling Of Not Being Quite Legitimate, Of Not Being Pure Enough.

Growing Up In The Philippines, I Loved All Kinds Of Movies. We Had A Very Healthy Film Industry There When I Was A Child. It's Now Gotten Very Limited. They Only Make Action Movies And Hard-core Exploitation Movies. Women Get Raped; Men Get Shot.

I'm An Underdog Person, So I Align Myself With Those Who Seem To Be Not Considered Valuable In Polite Society.

Writers And Scholars Have Emerged In Recent Times (some Familiar, Some New) To Continue To Challenge The Notion Of A Literature That Encompasses The World - And Reaffirms Our Existence In It. It Is A Multicultural Vision That Embraces And Includes Our Shrinking Universe; It Is A Multicultural Vision That The White Man Fears And A Vision That The Rest Of Us Can Celebrate.