Anglicisation

Yet,

while La Bamba remains the boilerplate musical biopic, if you scratch a little deeper, you find a much more interesting story about the migrant experience, about being a poor Latino kid in the white-bred Eisenhower era of America, about the Anglicization of Ricardo Valenzuela and how his greatest success came by reinventing a Mexican folk song as a rock and roll classic.

La Bamba is about achieving the American dream, only to die, but never be forgotten, taking your place in rock and roll heaven, forever immortal.

While Richie's story is the focal point of La Bamba, the heart of the film, actually, lies within its more controversial character, Richie's older half-brother Bob Morales, played by Isai Morales, in a performance that really should have won an Oscar.

I don't see any reason why they wouldn't.

Hurtz says: "How tearified, Anglicized," not sure of the adjective, "are you after moving to the UK, uh, in all these years? In other words, how different Good Areas comm box will be, say, if you were operating from Dallas under all these years?" Uh, well, I don't drink tea, uh, [chuckles] so, um, I don't really know much.

It, it, it, it wasn't until the whole Meghan Markle thing that I actually worked out which w- which one of the royals was which, which one of the boys, and I still don't-- wouldn't know any of the cousins or anything.

Um, I know a bit about politics, so I suppose I learned a little bit a- about the UK through that.

I wouldn't say that the big change for me has been being Anglicized.

I would say the big change for me is that up until 2003, I'd never been out of the country.

By two...

So, you know, it was just decided that it would be translated.

We, Mexico, uh, it's still Mexico, it's just Anglicized now.

And from, from, uh, México, Mex- Mexica to México to Mexico, and then Nuevo becomes New.

Was there...

... uh, uh, word, kind, that's been-

Yeah

... uh, Anglicized, you know-

Yeah

So Fred Trump was only a second-generation, uh, American German, but he lived through almost the entire 20th century, so when Germany's associated with two world wars and also the Holocaust.

Yeah, and note once again here, this Anglicization process is exactly as we described earlier.

So you get from Friedrich Trump to Fred Trump to Donald Trump, um, and basically those origins are almost obscured within two or three generations.

Yeah.

and you've got your own rivals with your neighbors.

But to most Anglophile writers, Anglicized writers, whatever, English writers, they just don't know the difference.

And it means that all of the potential references that you could take from Eastern Europe are just lost entirely.

It's such a shame.