Monday, 19 September 2011

Top Gear comments about México

I hadn´t seen this program before, so when I first heard the comments the British hosts made about Mexicans I feel disgusted and offended, but then I realized that the hosts use to made that kind of bad jokes which aren´t funny for the countries they made fun of.
First of all I don´t like the stereotype “Mexicans are lazy” in every country are all kinds of people even in England exists lazy people. One example that contradicts the lazy stereotypes about Mexicans is that many compatriots migrate to the United States looking for a job, because unfortunately here they don´t have many opportunities. Then the comments they said about Mexican food are derogatory and without real facts, they only express their opinion based in stereotypes. I´m sure that every tourist who had visited Mexico knows that we don´t only have “cheesy and greasy food” we have a variety of dishes for every taste, like the ones shown in the program of Anthony Bourdain. Finally I don´t agree when the hosts said that Matretta car was slow they didn´t test it.
People shouldn´t believe in stereotypes, we have to make our own opinion based on facts and our experience. I hope that the people who see Top Gear have an open mind and consider visiting Mexico to notice that many stereotypes about our culture are false.
I`m proud for being Mexican!

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