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After falling victim to a prank article in January 2021, hundreds of people with this cultural identity protested the supposed destruction of a bunya pine tree famed for being the meeting point of a film’s three protagonists. In a 2002 film about this identity, a group of women working at a factory strip down to their underwear to retaliate against body shaming. Real-life workers with this identity made up the majority of the cast of the 1954 neorealist film Salt of the Earth. The white-passing prisoner Miklo is told, “I don’t want his pork chop I want his life!” in a scene from a cult film among this identity, (*) Blood in Blood Out. Some critics (-5[1])have likened Lady (10[1])Bird to a film about a teenager of this cultural identity, Real Women Have Curves. Key figures in this identity’s (10[1])film culture include Cheech Marin and Edward James (10[1])Olmos. For 10 points, name this cultural identity of Ritchie Valens, the subject of Luis Valdez’s biopic La Bamba. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Mexican-Americans [or Chicanos; or Chicanas; accept Hispanos; accept Neomexicanos; accept Nuevomexicanos; prompt on Hispanics; prompt on Latinos or Latinas or Latine or Latinx; prompt on Honduran-American by asking “what is the cultural identity of the character portrayed by that Honduran-American actress?”]
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