Mexican Racism Essay

How can I say that Mexicans are not racist if my own family considers that a white with blue or green eyes is more beautiful than other who is not white? So, I agree that many Mexicans and also people from different ethnicity believe that the beauty comes depending on your eyes and skin color. I know that not all Mexicans are racist, that is a generalize comment, but it is very common to see white people in movies, novelas, announcements, and commercials. Even media plays an important role in people’s perspective about beauty, I think that concept goes so far than the media. It comes in how we as a parent always associate colors with the good and bad things. It is the concept that white is good and black is bad. I think from that perspective, people associate black people as not beauty or bad people. There is a study that is call The Clark Doll Test. The study is focused on stereotypes and children’s self-perception in relation to race (Explore.com). The study showed black little kids who were answering some questions about two dolls, one white and the other one black. Some of the questions were: which doll you like best or that you would like to play with, which one is the nice doll, which one looks bad. The majority of the kids responded that they preferred to play with the white doll, the white doll was …show more content…
Also the problem is that we do not show to our kids that there is no difference between white and black. White is associate with purity, goodness, and beauty; on the other hand, black is associate with evil and ugly. Therefore, there are children that are not able to see that difference among people. I mean they apply that ideology with people as well. If we take the idea of white and bad are good and bad respectively, with the media influence and the family’s ideologies, it is understandable why little kids preferred a white doll than a black