• Home
  • Videos
  • Pics
  • Blog
  • Modules
  • About Us
  @TheSocyCinema

@thesocycinema / videos

"Latinos" are Not a Culturally Homogenous Group

7/28/2013

0 Comments

 
PictureThe Daily Show critiques Latino stereotypes from many angles.
Tags: multiculturalism, prejudice/discrimination, race/ethnicity, comedy, hispanic, latinos, 06 to 10 mins
Year: 2013
Length: 6:21
Access: The Daily Show

Summary: In recognizing that race entails socially constructed categories as opposed to biological groupings of people, sociologists understand that race is not only subjective, but also relative to a subjective standpoint. For example, many racial categories used in the US, such as “Asian” or “Caucasian,” are “catch-all categories” for many cultural or ethnic groups who, from their own self-identified subjective position, see themselves as unique. In this clip from The Daily Show, Al Madrigal critiques the idea of treating Latinos as a culturally homogenous group. He emphasizes the diversity among Latinos, noting their diverse political positions as similar to the broader population, and identifies ways in which treating them as a homogenous group is offensive (adding "it's even offensive that you'd have me cover this because I am Latino"). He goes further to interview “Latinos” to illustrate how individuals from (or who trace their ancestry from places in) Latin America not only 1) see themselves as culturally (and perhaps also racially in the biological sense) unique; but 2) actually harbor prejudices and stereotypes toward other supposed “Latinos” from cultures different than their own. Accordingly, while Latinos are socially constructed as being quite different from “Mainstream Americans,” Madrigal concludes that perhaps supposed “Latinos” are actually quite similar to other ethnic groups (e.g. whites with European ancestry) in the US because they share a core cultural belief with many in our society: prejudice towards “Latinos.” Viewers should also be critical of the way The Daily Show, like much comedy, uses stereotypes to get laughs (e.g. Latinos liking "ultimate fighting and pigeon racing") at the same time it critiques them.

Submitted By: Jason T. Eastman

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Tags

    All
    00 To 05 Mins
    06 To 10 Mins
    11 To 20 Mins
    21 To 60 Mins
    61+ Mins
    Abortion/Reproduction
    Aging/Life Course
    Art/Music
    Biology
    Bodies
    Capitalism
    Children/Youth
    Class
    Commodification
    Community
    Consumption/Consumerism
    Corporations
    Crime/Law/Deviance
    Culture
    Demography/Population
    Disability
    Discourse/Language
    Du Bois
    Durkheim
    Economic Sociology
    Education
    Emotion/Desire
    Environment
    Food/Agriculture
    Foucault
    Gender
    Globalization
    Goffman
    Government/The State
    Health/Medicine
    Historical Sociology
    Immigration/Citizenship
    Inequality
    Intersectionality
    Knowledge
    Lgbtq
    Marketing/Brands
    Marriage/Family
    Marx/Marxism
    Media
    Methodology/Statistics
    Multiculturalism
    Nationalism
    Organizations/Occupations/Work
    Political Economy
    Politics/Election/Voting
    Prejudice/Discrimination
    Psychology/Social Psychology
    Race/Ethnicity
    Religion
    Rural/Urban
    Science/Technology
    Sex/Sexuality
    Social Construction
    Social Mvmts/Social Change/Resistance
    Sports
    Subtitles/CC
    Theory
    Violence
    War/Military
    Weber

    RSS Feed

    Tweets by @TheSocyCinema

    .

    Got any videos?

    Are you finding useful videos for your classes? Do you have good videos you use in your own classes? Please consider submitting your videos here and helping us build our database!

     

    Creative Commons License
​About Us      |      Facebook      |      Twitter      |      Pinterest      |      Tumblr
Creative Commons
  • Home
  • Videos
  • Pics
  • Blog
  • Modules
  • About Us