>>21674314>>490020292Here's an effortpost to make the thread politically relevant. (1/2)
It's not a single stereotype but a series of ideas that come from the USA's perception of us that are then spread globally due to its outsized cultural influence. For a simple example, "Mexican-Americans" (who mostly come from less illustrious sectors of our society) act and behave a certain way (which is really a product of American culture, not Mexican), this is then projected in the entertainment industry and english-speaking social media and it becomes the world's image of "Mexicans" and "Mexicanness." Worse, since this diaspora has very few cultural contributions or access to high culture and exist as a kind of slave caste but are desperate for a sense of identity and approval, they latch on to certain things, like tacos and some social gimmicks and perpetuate the stereotypes to an absurd degree.
It goes much deeper and has an ideological dimension. Put simply, since Americans perceive "Mexicans" as "non-whites" as opposed to "whites" (a system of categorization that only makes sense in the USA, but is spreading globally), and since American liberals perceive the world as a fight between the "whites"and the "nonwhites," most Latinos in the USA get swept up in this cultural malaise and incorporate themselves into the "nonwhite" mob, while the few "white" Latinos in the USA get absorbed into the mutt "white" category, losing their identity. All of this results in negative and inaccurate perceptions globally. But the real problem is that because of outsized world wide influence of the American worldview, there is a political pressure within our home countries that has pushed "Mexican" national identity increasingly toward alignment with the "non-white," (for example by promoting the "indigenismo" or the narrative of Spanish conquistadores as an alien or negative force) alienating our own castizo class and rewriting history in completely false and deceptive ways.
