Mexican Immigrant Stereotypes

“Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.” As this quote expresses, some people tend to have the feeling of not being a part of something; they assume the role of the outsider. Mexican immigrants, in particular, are frequently exposed to misjudgment. The immigrants tend to be misjudged due to stereotypical misconceptions about them and because people don’t take the time to truly get to know them.

It is not easy to travel across borders, and it is more difficult to fit into a place when people make false assumptions about you based on where you are from. When Mexican immigrants flee from their home country, it is often to escape poverty and to find reliable jobs. Many people have misconceptions about Mexicans which range from them being thieves, rapists, murderers, and drug smugglers. These are extreme fallacies that can be harmful to the immigrant and make them feel as if it is wrong for them to be Mexican. These stereotypes are placed onto an immigrant immediately and it can be difficult to shake that opinion out of people’s heads. The definition of stereotypes is “a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.” The term “oversimplified image” is a great representation of how these misjudgments that people make on Mexican immigrants are simple and aren’t deeply rooted …show more content…
There is some truth to this because there are some Mexicans who are not good people. Of course, there are always people who fit into those obscure categories of being drug addicts, murderers, and criminals, but it isn’t just one group of people; every race has their outliers. It is unfit to perceive one race as being superior and one inferior. Instead, they are all alike in the sense that they have faults, but they also have good attributes. As the saying goes, nobody is