Honest question for Mexicans and Latinos
If you find this character "offensive," do you know if it was a natural reaction, or did someone tell you to be offended by it? I'm serious, I'd like an honest discussion of this.
share[deleted]
Interesting. I'm Irish and I've never been offended by ND either. Or the fact that cops in Loony Toons are always Irish.
share[deleted]
And I think having these ethnic characters was a way Americans learned to get along with each other.
shareActually, Speedy Gonzalez doesn't look Spanish at all. People in US use to mix up Spain and Latin-America.
share[deleted]
Yeah, of course, but both being heterogeneous, you still have some range of values. There's differences in accent (Spanish accent not having that 'singing' quality), appearance (Latin America is a mix of Spanish and indigenous people) and culture (both Latin America and Spain evolved in different directions). As a matter of fact, think that while there's some kind of 'brotherhood' among British, Yankees and Aussies, and you have that same feeling among Latin-American countries, that feeling doesn't exist between Spain and Latin-America. Indeed, Spanish consider Latin-American countries as non-western cultures.
share