Mexicanism In Othello

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In Shakespeare's tragedy Othello, the title character is a 16th century Moorish general of the Venetian army who, because of the cultural and historical background of the play’s setting, the playwright, and the original intended audience, is portrayed as both well-respected for his military prowess and disparaged for his race. Similarly, because of the positive and negative issues that are happening, Mexicans in today’s America society are both love Mexican food for them like Mexicans accent and they don’t like how Mexicans how we act and what we wear and actually Mexicans think that Americans are a little paranoid. In Othello he had two characters a good one and a bad one he was ok at first he was very calm he didn’t really care about anything he was respectful to everyone and that’s why they respected him when the dad of Desdemona …show more content…
A positive change is that Americans love the Mexican food and their opinions are good and also their feedback. Americans see the Mexican food restaurant as a chain daily meaning they go daily to eat Mexican food and that helps them economically because that’s the only good job they can get so for them is a good job.
A negative issue is how they see us how we act how we talk how they make us look bad the rumors they make Mexicans look bad how they spread rumors they don’t see Mexicans as a good role model they see how Mexicans do illegal jobs and they see us a bad people. And they will still make us look bad because Mexicans have a bad reputation and that makes still look bad there's mostly Mexicans who get fired from work.
People change and Othello changed throughout the story and it made him look bad when he had a negative attitude towards everyone and everything and people started to be afraid of him that at the beginning, everyone respected him just how he respected everyone until the bad reputation of Iago changed

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