Juan Herrera, Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler
Pg. 157

Wanna B: “how to use the fruit-of-the-loom T-shirt to divert attention from your bad credit.”

Sancho: contestant numero uno?

Contestant #1: Hispa-chute!

In the beginning of the chapter he shows a game show that is mixed between jeopardy and the wheel of fortune. While this is going on they are making fun of the Hispanics every answer to the questions starts with the word Hispa, when also in the game show they hit tacos instead of bells the whole setting of the stage is a cheap Mexican like taco curtains and etc. although he is making fun of Mexicans he is also making other realize that when the make racial slurs that more people realize them then you would think.

Pg. 166

“Of course chickens don’t talk – this is the first piece of common knowledge that had to be discarded. When Antoinne Saldivar Exclamado came back from Stanford, after a four year stint for a B.A in economics, the first thing he did was set the record straight for the rest of his familia.

This quote to me shows that someone who was close to them had left and gone to get a better education but while he was away from home for so long he had forgotten some things that to others, who deal with the same things all the time, are common sense. And they were just having a joke about it because to them its common knowledge.