Someone explain to me how Speedy is stereotypical.
if you have to ask, you are part of the problem
Someone explain to me how Speedy is stereotypical.
if you have to ask, you are part of the problem
Thought so. Okay. Thanks anyway.
Speedy Gonzales was born in the early 50s and was intended to be a real stereotype of what Anglophones in the United States considered to be a “typical” Mexican: he spoke with an exaggerated Mexican accent; he wore an oversized sombrero, Mexican type, and white shirt and trousers, with a red kerchief around his neck. a common traditional outfit worn by men and boys of rural Mexican villages
His speech was sprinkled with Spanish words like ¡ándele! ¡arriba! amigo, gracias, señor, ******, hasta la vista… and others to make him sound authentic and real.
Speedy was banned by Cartoon Network in 1999 for depicting unfair and untrue stereotypes about Mexicans—not necessarily Speedy, but his fellow mice who were portrayed as drunk and lazy, coterie of drunken Mexican mice who lounge around the village, or by his lazy cousin Slowpoke Rodriguez, who seems as slow-witted as he is slow-footed.
And though adult fans may bemoan the fact their favorite rodent has been sent to broadcast limbo, they ought to consider most of the viewers are children, Los Angeles psychologist Robert Butterworth said.
"These stereotypes are ingrained when we're young. And what do kids watch? Cartoons," he said. "I know the adults are saying, 'Oh God, it's just Speedy Gonzales,' but these are impressions that are put in very early and very hard to pull out. I'm the last person to hold a sign for political correctness, but kids absorb this thing on a preconscious level."
You googled your response. Okay.....I'll drop it then.
Is plagiarism when u are making money out of something?
I do it for free
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