When my wife and I announced that we were moving to Mexico, one of my wife’s relatives asked us,
“Why do you want to live with those dirty Mexicans?”
Besides wanting to slap some sense into this person, I was particularly sickened (as in wanting to projectile vomit Linda Blair-style) by this hideous and most heinous stereotype. I have wanted to know since then where this originated.
I think, after doing what writers dotoo much research, I have finally found it.
Apparently, historians, those guys we all love to read, have been recording these views for years. David J. Webber wrote extensively on the origins of anti-Mexican stereotypes. (Thank you very much, David. It took only two years to find you!). Webber has carefully written on the views that are responsible for today’s prevalent stereotypes of the Mexican people. He wrote,
“Mexicans were considered, he wrote, “bigoted, greedy, tyrannical, fanatical, treacherous, and lazy”. These characterizations of the inhabitants of Mexico congealed especially during the decades following Mexico’s independence from Spain in 1821″ [1]
Many have...
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