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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 have likened Lady Bird to a film about a teenager of this cultural identity, Real Women Have Curves. Key figures in this identity’s film culture include Cheech Marin and Edward James Olmos. For 10 points, name this cultural identity of Ritchie Valens, the subject of Luis Valdez’s biopic La Bamba. ■END■
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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