latino stereo types
i just want to get people's opinions on stereo types of the latin culture and i want to know the stereo types you have heard or believe.
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Hola Patricia!!
Que bueno que abriste este foro!
Wow... Es bastante interesante ver como otras personas que no son latinas (como nosotras)
opinan sobre la cultura...
haha.. muchos de los estereotipos son ciertos!! Pero otros no tantos...
Yo estoy muy orgullosa de ser Mexicana =) sin embargo, no encajo en muchos de los estereotipos mencionados...
Saludos Patricia!!
Ciao..
Otra cosa, por lo que respecta al clima, otra generalización.
Aquí los inviernos son muy fríos, incluso cae nieve en el sur, intenten ir con guayaberas a Punta Arenas este invierno. jajaja
Saludos.
I like to write in my own language, very clear.
Pero que tontería escribe Roger, por lo que pude entender compara a los chilenos rivales de salvadoreños,entre otros pueblos centroamericanos. Todo lo mete en un mismo saco, como las películas esterotipadas de Hollywood ( como si nosotros dijéramos que todos los norteamericanos son unos presumidos, arrogantes y que su ¨América¨ es el centro del Universo) , Chile está en Sudamérica.
Y ahí hay una diferencia con los otros tipos de habla hispana, ya que en países sudamericanos como Argentina, Uruguay y Chile tienen una importante influencia de inmigrantes europeos (no españoles).
Por ejemplo es imposible comparar a un rioplatence con un habitante del Caribe o Centroamérica, hay importantes factores culturales que chocan ,pese a hablar el mismo idioma.El uruguayo es más bien sobrio al lado de un cubano, etc ( de Chile no opino, son ¨inefables¨....)
Pero como en todo orden de cosas es muy malo generalizar, hay de todo, como en el resto del mundo.
Bueno, bueno,
cuantas opiniones diversas, cosas buenas y cosas no tan buenas. Como en todas las culturas.
Es cierto que, los latinos son de sangre caliente sus mujeres muy cariñosas y muy posesivas al igual que los hombres.
En cuanto a que son vagos, bueno puede ser mas cierto, pero cuando estas en climas tan calurosos cuesta mas de trabajar, no?
La familia es un tema muy importante, hacemos una piña. Esto quiere decir que estamos todos muy unidos y hacemos lo que sea para defendernos.
Bebedores, tambièn puede ser pero por aqui es mas usual encontrar extranjeros borrachos que españoles, jejej sobretodo por Calella. Los extranjeros "teenagers", que vienen de viaje de fin de curso acaban muchos muy mal al final de la noche.
Bueno no se que mas deciros, he reido mucho con muchas opiniones, lastima que algunas no las he podido entender del todo.
BESOS!!!
The most popular false stereotype is that the Spanish population is Latin. We had a President who called Spain Latin America. Their ancestry is Visagoth, Moorish and ancient Iberian cave dwellers now called the PP. They have nowhere near the short fuse associated with Latins and their emotional outbursts are mild compared to the Greeks. Their closest cultural counterpart is the French. Both cultures can't go 15 minutes without talking about the four things that interest them most, food,food,food and sex.
hard drinkers
short
lazy
wife beaters
huge families
just stupid untruthful things like that
Hola crazy y a jefa, bienvenidos al foro 
yo soy chilango. y el peor stereotipo es que todos los que somos de la gran ciudad somos rateros o mal portados. lo que no entiende la gente que en una de las ciudades mas grandes del mundo el crimen es mas obvio que por ejemplo en un pueblito.los chilangos tenemos la misma malafama que un Nueva Yorkino en los Estados Unidos. Pero nuestra malafama se extiende mas.
I am a Latina and I think that there are a lot of stereo types and some of them are true. But then again some of them just don't make any sense. I mean not every Latinos last name is Sanchez though it is a common name. The one about being super religious is true most Latinos are very very faithful and the whole families go to church every week. So they are very family oriented. And the one about Latinos are short and small well i think that, that was true but not any more. When the Hispanics came they got taller so I think that the tall Latinos have more Spanish in them than Indian.
anyway, the idea that latinos were small or short is not visible for me, are they short compared to whom?
Very good point, emmanuela, this proves that everything is relative in life...jejej 
i joined this community because i want to learn spanish, but then i find the forums more interesting,
Thanks a lot, Emma, we try to keep this forum friendly and intersting for everybody. Paralee's lessons are the best on the web and our forum is a very nice place where everybody's opinion is welcome. I am glad you like it here.
welcome to the forum
I don't know if someone has already stated this stereotype:Mexican guys are always attracted to any blonde girls they see.
was that really true? lol...
i really enjoyed reading the post. especially from other nations, i guess i will quote one idea, are we stating stereo types here or our own point of view about latinos?
i am from Philippines considered as the latin america in Asia since we were colonized by spain for 333 years, like what most latin american countries are, the term latinos is actually culturally implied, that's why we were also fondly named or called latinos in Asia, if those were the stereotype for latinos do some nations also share the same ideas or stereotype for Filipinos?
anyway, the idea that latinos were small or short is not visible for me, are they short compared to whom?
but i find latinos very very sexy, either men or women, and i also agree that they are passionate but not horny.
i joined this community because i want to learn spanish, but then i find the forums more interesting, i still want to learn how to speak or just even understand spanish... thanks...
It's important to recognize that stereotypes are a natural step in acquiring knowledge. To simplify, if we see a tree from afar, we may say first: "it's a tree". As we get closer, we may find out "It's a Palm tree". Later, upon closer inspection we may realize it is a cell phone tower disguised to look like a Palm tree. So when people approach me with preconceptions i take them with a grain of salt and use it as a teaching moment.
BTW, I'm Cuban and we generally don't like spicy food...or bigotry. I'm very very grateful that my parents were allowed to come to the US. And to respond to the other gentleman, anti-Castro feelings will only grow. No one's cutting Hitler any slack because of the passage of time.
1 stereotpe at my school, "taco bell!" everyone says if you speak spanish, you eat at taco bell. i think it's kinda funny.
yeah these stereotypes are true tho. im puerto rican and italian and its true lol
my ex boyfriend came here from P.R and i see alot of these.its nothing bad if you like how we are ya know?
if females dont like how hispanic males are than thats their problem.
