The videos reflect the problem of stereotypes. In the “Top Gear” show the presenters talk about the existent stereotypes about Mexican people and food without knowing anything about this culture. On the other hand, Anthony Bourdain comes to Mexico, meets the people, tastes the food and gives his opinion based on it. However I can see how there are important differences between people inside the same culture; for example, he went to a “cantina” and went to see the “lucha libre” maybe because he thinks these are activities that Mexican people do, but it is not completely true because although I am Mexican I never have been to a “cantina” and I don´t like the “lucha libre”.
In the same way I am sure that not all English people believe in the same way as the top gear´ presenters do, all people in a culture are different from each other and we can´t make generalizations based just on a person we have known. Unfortunately it is something that people do, we also laugh or make jokes about other cultures without really knowing if what we say is true or not. Therefore, we shouldn´t take these comments seriously but we ought to try to change as much as we can the existent stereotypes about Mexican people.
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