Latin American Stereotypes Essay

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The way other people may view or perceive something is extremely intriguing to me, so looking at the photo above I have so much to say. Its comical, to me, how some of these possible perceptions of Europe, Though the United States has our own perceptions and stereotypes of every country I love seeing the difference between my opinion and what someone else’s might be. There’s many differences in the depiction above and the supposed Latin American view of Europe and my own, but I realized that in order to conjure this graphic one must create a stereotype of latin Americans first to determine what would be thought. So in a way this is an image of a stereotype of a continent stereotyping another continent. The mule and the elephant are the iconic …show more content…

Its often treated like an adult treats a child that is very upset because their imaginary friend is sick, with a sympathetic smile and a false sense of sincerity that is only believable because they actually feel bad that you believe it is real. Mental illness already doesn't have a good track record of treatments, American Horror Story even exemplifies this in the many of the show’s seasons, but especially in the second season American Horror Story: Asylum. In the show, though it is exaggerated, the patients are “treated” with extremely outlandish “remedies” for their illnesses by a priest, nun, and (of course) crazy doctor. But its not just in media that mental illness is shown to be null, throughout history metal illness has never been treated well, from preposterous treatments like trephination (drilling holes in one’s skull) to electro shock therapy there have always been incompetent treatments for these taboo illnesses, including the famous exorcisms. For many centuries religion was the answer to any problem, so if someone isn't acting normal, well obviously they must be possessed. These radical ideas of how to treat mental illness have, in my opinion, created an association of humor with mental illness. This humor is what people turn to avoid the fact that there is possibly something wrong with someone that they know and care about that

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