Whenever a script looks at a subculture of people as needing to be pitied by the larger culture, and writes an argument for sympathy, it's just not going to work.But to have George/Jorje Del Gado say,"you're thinking Anglo," and then describe gang warfare logic is just sad.At any rate, it's not an Anglo/Latino issue, this stuff about gang behavior. I'd suggest watching "The Gangs of New York." Neighborhood warfare probably dates back to feudal Europe or earlier. The fact that some communities of color developed strategies of survival, based on previous strategies from other cultures, ought not be a surprise.There were no gangs in indigenous Aztland, where California now exists. There were no gangs in Africa, either, before slavery.I know: this show is from the seventies. We all had, and still have, a lot to learn.I just noticed the episode's writer has a nonLatino name. This may be the difference: perhaps a Latino writer would have made the difference.I'm trying to remember that these were the years before people from outside Aztland had really never eaten a taco.No, Taco Bell, these days, doesn't count; that's not real food.I suppose, in its day, this was cutting edge television drama. And there are kids from East LA today who have never been to the beach.But there are a lot more kids from the beach who've never been to East LA, either.And that's the real shame.You'd think, after all these decades, things would be better.We've got a long way to go.