When you see someone go downtown and get a good job, if they be Puerto
Rican, you see them fix up their hair and put some contact lenses in their
eyes. Then they fit in and they do it! I have seen it!
Look at all the people in
that building, they all turn-overs. They people who want to be white. Man,
if you call them in Spanish it wind up a problem. I mean like take the name
PedroIm just telling you this as an examplePedro be saying (imitating a
whitened accent) My name is Peter. Where do you get Peter from Pedro?
(Bourgois 1991, p. 32)