Race Stereotypes Value In Luiz Valdez's Los Vendidos

Race Stereotypes Value Most of the people in their life have been looked down on because of their race. Society has made an issue of skin color. These days it is looked down on if someone associates with someone that is not the same color as other people. Luiz Valdez tells us he’s story where he boycotts against grape growers. This tells readers that he was against stereotypes. Which someone can tell by he 's playing “Los Vendidos.”
The play starts off with Honest Sancho dusting off the models. Miss Jimenez comes into the shop explaining to Sancho that she is a secretary for Governor Regan. She is looking to purchase a “Mexican type” to attracts to a larger voting crowd. Sancho shows Miss Jimenez four different models, snapping his fingers
The play sets in Honest Sancho’s Used Mexican Lot and Mexican Curio Shop. Valdez tells about a shopkeeper Honest Sancho, who sells various models of stereotypical Mexicans and Mexican-Americans that buyers can take control by simply snapping their fingers and calling out commands. In Luiz play, the Mexican stereotypes tend to be refused by society. This is proven when a secretary named Miss Jimenez to come from the Governor’s office to buy a “brown-skinned robot. For Regan’s administration because it will look good to have a “Mexican Type” on the staff. (Valdez 938) The secretary gives Sancho a list of peculiar items she wants in a Mexican type for the administration such as the ability to speak English. The secretaries do not like any of the models because the weaknesses she found in each model. Shows readers how unreasonable people are quick to judge something. The discrimination against race causes some Mexican-American to choose to ignore their race and attempt to separate themselves from their ethnic
The secretary feels strange to her own culture since her culture is grasp into the U.S. culture. Sancho is still socially and culturally different from other Chicanos. Both characters demonstrate their guilt. The secretary is the out-group and Sancho is the in-group member that is Mexican race. Both characters are abnormal figures who may be considered as role models for Chicanos. Mexicans who live in the United States maintains their loyalty toward their own group from the external pressures to turn against their race. Miss Jimenez Is the one who cannot maintain her own culture. She loses her ethical identity as Mexican since she decided to be American. In the play, it is shown that Miss Jimenez tries to identify as an