What are the stereotypes about Latinas/os that have exist in our culture? How are they perpetuated by film and other forms of media?
Answer:
Some of the stereotypes about Latinas/os that have exist in our
culture are:
• They talk English with the accent.
• Most of Latinos women are maids.
• They belongs to poor or lower class families.
• They are not very educated.
• They are very religious people and always Catholic
.
• They comes from dangerous neibourhood.
• Attached to drugs and criminal activities.
• They are immigrants or foreigners, etc.
Film / shows that perpetuate the stereotypes are:
• Family Guy’s (maid stereotype)
• “Maid in Manhattan,”(maid stereotype)
• “West Side Story” (gangbanger) etc.
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