In the Hispanic world, many stereotypes can define the Hispanic community, racial stereotypes are the most common that define Hispanics. The stereotypes that define Hispanics is lazy, domestic and drug dealers. These negative connotations are hurtful towards the community and can hurt by making them more vulnerable towards words, these words defining Hispanics can break their morals and affect the Hispanic community in ways that can be deceiving.
Defining the Hispanic community starts from one word, when they are brought to reality, it is affective. Labels begin from the media to the news to history. In history, Hispanics are portrayed as lazy, unintelligent and aliens. These stereotypes are just a few of the many the Hispanic community hears …show more content…
In the article “The Myth of the Latin Woman” Judith Ortiz Cofer argues that in media women seem “hopeless and vulgar.” The Hispanic portrayal views Hispanic women and men in a negative manner. The only way to reduce stereotypes is by shining the light on stereotyping and not letting it affect the Hispanic community. Not allowing it to affect Hispanics, allows the Hispanic community to break the negative portrayal in media, and therefore achieve a lifestyle that is positive without the most common stereotypes challenging their …show more content…
In the media the roles that Hispanics are being given is defining reality. That is why the stereotypes affect actors. The negative portrayal can change the way the Hispanic community is portrayed in media and in real life. In the movie, The Pregnancy Project, a girl named Gaby Rodrigues broke all the stereotypes defining the Hispanic community in the media, history and real life. In real life, all her peers told her she was going to be a teen parent and not go to college. With the negative connotations by her peers, and having dealt with her mom becoming pregnant as a teenager and her siblings as well, she put a tremendous effort to have a better life, and change the media’s portrayal of pregnancy. Therefore for a senior project she faked her pregnancy, in order to introduce the negative stereotypes brought on to the Hispanic community and prevent teen pregnancy so it wouldn’t be viewed as an
Defining the Hispanic community starts from one word, when they are brought to reality, it is affective. Labels begin from the media to the news to history. In history, Hispanics are portrayed as lazy, unintelligent and aliens. These stereotypes are just a few of the many the Hispanic community hears …show more content…
In the article “The Myth of the Latin Woman” Judith Ortiz Cofer argues that in media women seem “hopeless and vulgar.” The Hispanic portrayal views Hispanic women and men in a negative manner. The only way to reduce stereotypes is by shining the light on stereotyping and not letting it affect the Hispanic community. Not allowing it to affect Hispanics, allows the Hispanic community to break the negative portrayal in media, and therefore achieve a lifestyle that is positive without the most common stereotypes challenging their …show more content…
In the media the roles that Hispanics are being given is defining reality. That is why the stereotypes affect actors. The negative portrayal can change the way the Hispanic community is portrayed in media and in real life. In the movie, The Pregnancy Project, a girl named Gaby Rodrigues broke all the stereotypes defining the Hispanic community in the media, history and real life. In real life, all her peers told her she was going to be a teen parent and not go to college. With the negative connotations by her peers, and having dealt with her mom becoming pregnant as a teenager and her siblings as well, she put a tremendous effort to have a better life, and change the media’s portrayal of pregnancy. Therefore for a senior project she faked her pregnancy, in order to introduce the negative stereotypes brought on to the Hispanic community and prevent teen pregnancy so it wouldn’t be viewed as an