The OC

I guess I never really realized just how diverse Orange County, California really is. Nowadays whenever it is mentioned most people think that the community is much like the one portrayed in the show. I guess a large part of it is true and there certainly are a lot of elite living there, but I feel like Arellano's book shifts our focus more to the other communities living within Orange County and lets us know that there are thriving Latino communities within Orange County that have done well for themselves, and living in a middle-class environment. It is something that was mentioned before. I am also surprised about a lot of the politics in Orange County, I am aware that there is racism everywhere, but a lot of the politicians really say some of the most awful and atrocious comments, but what I find interesting is that whenever an incident like this happens there seems to be more press coverage about it, more outrage, and especially more outrage in the Latino community. Even governor Schwarzenegger chimed in on reprimanding the person responsible for putting intimidating guards at the mostly Latino voting stations in order to prevent them or intimidate them out of voting with the excuse that they just wanted to make sure that no illegal aliens were taking part in the voting. Of course no one bought this excuse, but the responses of outrage from all over the nation are a really great sign that people do not just want to sweep such forms of discrimination under the rug like what was done not so many years ago.