Reading Response on Latinos in the media.
“The Real McCoy’s (Irving Pincus, 1957) had a Latino farm hand named Pepino. Some shows and movies portray John Leguizanio as a drug-dealing murderer. Never was a Latino cast in a show displaying good family life or decent person with a normal everyday life.”
I notice that even though Latinos were cast in Hollywood, there is still stereotyping and discriminating going on. These Latinos who were cast to be in the movies or comic or drama weren’t always shown to be well mannered. They are still shown to be drug dealers or murderers. It seems like no matter what the Latinos do to get to the entertainment business they are always going to be stereotyped.
Even though the Latinos were cast in television, they didn’t play a big role. They were always given small parts or they would appear only one time in every episode. Decades ago not that many of Latinos appeared on TV compared to the twenty-One century. One of the influences person was......
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