Stereotypes In My Family And Parrot In The Oven Mi Vida

Whenever we hear or see a person of certain racial group, we automatically have an idea of how that person can be. Sometime without realizing, as a society we have some idea of how certain groups act. It is a common thing in our society on which sometimes it can create good or bad interpretations about those ethnic or racial groups. Also, it can create tolerance or intolerance toward other groups because of different ideas or traditions. The concept of stereotypes is what we have been created in our presumptions of a person without even having an idea how they are. The film by Gregory Nava “My Family” and the book by Victor Martinez “Parrot in the Oven Mi Vida” are cleared examples of the concept of stereotypes. In addition, the film “Real

Sometimes, without acknowledging or taking into consideration the fact that a considered upper racial group can influence someone’s way of acting, it still does affect those factors. For example, when Memo brings his fiancée to meet his family and says “They call me Memo. My family calls me that. It 's diminutive for Guillermo. That 's William in Spanish, so Memo is like Bill” (Nava). Eventually, Memo changes his name to William Sanchez as it is seen on his office door (Nava). Probably, Memo didn’t want to let others criticize him by his name and actually see him as the lawyer he becomes. Moreover, later Memo demonstrates an uncomfortable moment with his family when they started to talk about Californio’s corpse affirming “There’s nobody buried in the backyard, right, Dad?” (Nava). Since Memo’s fiancée and her family are white, he sort of changes some of the facts of his family such as his brothers education, and what his family does. This demonstrates that sometimes racial tension can change someone 's culture and influence to think differently with some sort of ashamed of its own

Such as how Manny’s dad reacts when Mr. Hart gives him a ride and gives him twenty dollars. As a response the dad was “pointing right at the president’s dollar bill, [saying], ‘Don’t you think I know people like this?” (Martinez, 48). This moment demonstrates that since the teacher is a white person, they should not be receiving money or anything from them. This can kind of situation can breaks the parent’s pride that can exist in the ethnic group. Also, it can be reflected as referring certain ethnic as inferior as the other and that they are humiliating them. Usually, the acceptance for some members of a group can show how weak they can be. Without realizing