Friday, July 4, 2025
spot_img

‘Hollywood distorts Mexico’s image’

Date:

Share post:

spot_imgspot_img

Hollywood presents a distorted image of Mexico, according to Mexico’s Ambassador to the US Eduardo Medina Mora.

Stereotypes of “gardeners and drug traffickers” fail to mention contributions Mexicans have made to the US, he added.

“Mexicans on the silver screen are usually portrayed as poor and uneducated at best, corrupt and violent at worst,” Mora said at a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington Friday.

“I’m still eagerly waiting for the movie where Salma Hayek plays a Nobel Prize-winning chemist that teaches young Americans to create new forms of alternative energy,” he said.

Mora said not even Demian Bichir, nominated for an Oscar, escaped the trap of stereotypes, having played a gardener and a drug trafficker in the movies “A Better Life” and “Savages” respectively.

The diplomat stressed the importance of ridding American movies of the myths that persist about Mexican immigrants, because “the American public, which consumes those types of movies, will inevitably be influenced by them”. Drug trafficking was a problem that affects Mexico and other parts of the world, and portraying Mexicans as drug dealers and corrupt policemen “is not only racist, it is totally wrong”, he said. (IANS)

spot_imgspot_img

Related articles

Week-long FDP on indigenous knowledge systems held at RGU

Guwahati, July 3: The Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) Cell, in collaboration with the Royal Centre for Human Resource...

Arunachal Guv urges legislators to focus on land reforms, women empowerment

Itanagar, July 3: Arunachal Pradesh Governor Lt. General K.T. Parnaik (Retd) on Thursday urged legislators to prioritise land...

Manipur govt takes steps to ensure free movement of transport across districts

Imphal, July 3: The Manipur government has taken steps to undertake free movement of various vehicles across the...

Satellite township project: Assam Cong leader moves Commission over ‘threat’ to indigenous communities

Guwahati, July 3: Assam Congress leader Debabrata Saikia has sought the intervention of the National Commission of Scheduled...