This weekend the Bienvenidos festival is going on right in the middle of downtown Provo. Friday night's main event, WWF wrestling. My brother in law Jacob and I had quite an interesting conversation regarding the cultural relevance of this low-brow drama.
Paco, the masked wrestler could easily be a metaphor representing all of peoples of Hispanic descent. "Junior," Mr. White Trash in the flesh, with his tight blue leather pants, is a shadow of the inherited prejudices and generational hate and discrimination against latinos. In the end, Paco overcomes and defeats over Junior, signifying his triumph over oppression and prejudice; but not before an awesome body slam by mister blue hot-pants...
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