Talk:Bobby Simone

Simone's ethnicity

Removed the category "Fictional Mexican-Americans" from this entry. Simone doesn't have Mexican ancestry; he describes himself in one episode as French-Portugese. He also doesn't speak Spanish. Not that all Mexican-Americans do, but on a show like this I think they'd be pretty likely to make an issue of that.

He seems uninterested in discussing his background - he tells a suspect he's French and Portuguese but he has no reason to tell the truth there and may be working an angle to try to get a confession, as the detectives on the show usually are. There's also no references to his citizenship status, which would be an issue if he was born outside the U.S. to two European parents. In another episode he clearly identifies himself, or at least his father, as not white when discussing racial tensions in the longshoremen's union. Simone is portrayed as fairly sensitive to Sipowicz's bigoted comments, which could just be his political orientation, although like most cops on the show he could hardly be described as a liberal. Is it possible that the character - like Smits himself and millions of New Yorkers - is in fact Puerto Rican but just didn't want to deal with the biases of the white cops by broadcasting that fact? Simone seems to have grown up in a mostly Italian-American neighborhood, which would explain why he doesn't speak a lot of Spanish, and even if he was born in Puerto Rico and moved to New York as a child he would be a natural-born U.S. citizen.

I know we're not going to resolve the issue of the ambiguous ethnicity of a fictional character here, but I propose that the fact that it's left ambiguous within the show's universe be reflected in the article, rather than taking the one-off statement about "French-Portuguese" parents as gospel, given its context. Predestiprestidigitation (talk) 17:35, 23 April 2021 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:28, 24 January 2008 (UTC)