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"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" –excerpt from Emma Lazuras’s poem “ The New Colossus” that is inscribed on the inside of the pedestal of the statue of liberty in bronze.
Estimated amount of immigrants from Mexico to the United States for the following years.
Country 2004 2010 2010
Mexico 7,841,000 8,544,600 9,600,000
In 2010 23.7 percent of the population will from mexico alone
STEREOTYPES
In the history of Cinema in this country the Mexican stereotype has come off as the following:
• Mexicans all wear sombreros and sandals.
• They all lead a burro around.
• They cook in monstrous cauldrons.
• They all have moustaches (the men, anyway) and lounge around.
• They are avid lovers.
• They thrive on war.
• They are followers, not leaders.
• They are loud and boisterous
• The only music they listen to is Mariachi
Other stereotypes:
They are usually illegal inmigrants
- They look at you in a very lustful way or talk about you if they see you are hispanic (I hate that!) They usually clean floors at night so I avoid going shopping too late
- Women like to wear these fake fur coats or pretend they have a lot of money (I've met a few of them and they always say they have lots of money in Mexico)
- A friend of mine works in a retail company and they always catch mexicans stealing gadgets
- They usually look for ways to take advantage of the USA laws
- Guys think they are the best of the best (macho man)
Generally the sentiment is that they stand outside the 7 11 and wait for jobs, that they are probablly poor,...
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