Mexican day laborers as comedy? Just ask Culture Clash – Latino comedy trio holds a mirror up to Orange County, and hopes it will laugh at itself.

Ric Salinas aims his video camera at the slightly nervous-looking young woman, smiles, and launches into his first question: “So, tell us about being Jewish in Mexico!”

It must be Salinas’ sunny, friendly disposition – or maybe the stoic, fatherly look of his colleague, Herbert Siguenza, sitting next to him – but pretty soon the woman, Tabatha Daly, is chattering all about her life. Her Russian grandparents’ move to the U.S. The family’s relocation to Mexico. Growing up an outsider in Mexico City, then feeling doubly misunderstood after moving to California, where Latinos find her even more exotic than non-Latinos do.

“I never felt like part of the regular world,” Daly said of her childhood in Mexico City. “I felt segregated and I lived a different experience than people outside my circle. And I find myself different from other Latin people here.”"*

*From: www.ocregister.com
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