In scene 6, I also didn't like because the navy sailors had no right to strip the zoot suiter. The white people took zoot suits to make white people clothes look bad or exaggerate the clothes. Zoot Suits were only made to have style and to make mexicans, Filipinos, blacks look sharp.
" The Press distorted the very meaning of the word "zoot suit." All it is for you guys is another way to say Mexican. But the ideal of the original chuco was to look like a diamond, to look sharp, hip, bonaroo, finding a style of urban survival in the rural skirts and outskirts of the brown metropolis of Los, cabron." pg. 80
Pachuco says this quote. Pachuco says it to the press. He says this because the press is just as wrong as the white people and Pachuco told them what zoot suits meant and why they were wore. It was for individuality and to show that the can look as sharp as everyone else instead of just wearing straw hats and overalls.
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How does wearing zoot suits affect the war?
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I thought it was absolutely aweful that Pachuco was treated this way. He was completely stripped of all his value;clothing,culture,and individuality.Why did the white people take their unique style offensively ?
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