With respect to the two T.V. programs that we watched in class, I think they are very different or their objectives are so different. While "Not reservations" is a program that gives information about a country and makes opinions about it after visit it and have experiences there, "Top Gear" is just a "funny" program where its hosts use black humor and sarcasm to fun their audience and they, in their eagerness to do it, say the first stupid thing that have in mind. For this reason they are ignorant of things like Mexican food is one of the most varied foods in the world, together with French and Chinese food; or that the "lazy" mexican people have to be an early reaser because their jobs are far away of their homes and the traffic is terrible. Unfortunately, the photos where our politicians are sleeping run faster around the world.
I agree that the form used for the hosts of "Top Gear" to express of Mexican people was very disrespectful and regrettable, and more that jokes, those were insults; but they don't say things only about mexicans, they say desagreeable things about people in many countries. On the other hand, we must accept that many Mexican TV programs also are full of stereoptypes, including Olimpic Games spots of Televisa. How many times have we heard things about the arrogant Argentinians or stinking Europeans?
Frankly, I think we are a culture to tends to estereotype too. So we shouldn't take things to heart.
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