#spicy latino estereotype
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ghostatrandom · 2 years ago
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could you explain the issue with the chili mango line in lagoonas song? im not latine and im not sure how to go about researching where the problem is
Like I said, it's because of a thing called racial estereotypes-
Latina women are usually always depicted as hotheaded, loud, party crazy, agressive. But there is also the part where them, by not being white/North american or european, are considered exotic, and also usually being depicted with only tanks tops, shorts or any clothes that can sexualize them under the excuse of being "from the tropical area". Along side with the whole "every latino is mexican, latinoamerica is all about jalapeños and spice", it forms a racist and fetishy way latino characters are sadly shown most of the time.
And this is not only a problem latino people face, if you look for it you can find other versions of this trope adapted to multiple cultures that are not white centric, like the Dragon lady estereotype or the angry black women estereotype, which you'll discover all of them go around the idea of a white male dominating and taming this otherness, this agressive exotic creature that came into his life to serve as a supporting role; but also being damaging enough to not praise this characteristics and putting us as more of a hassle and more annoying than your sweet, angelic and absolutely so pure white women.
Having an agressive and romance oriented latino character is not a sin, and we usually take well this type of characters when are written by a latine person and from a latine perspective.
But when you have this character (in this case, Lagoona) being called as "sweet and spicy" and this is THE ONLY CHARACTER getting this treatment, while also being the only fully latine character in the lineup, is kinda fucked up (Clawdeen is afro latina, but she has her own deal with the mixed race alegory and what the movie did with that, its a can of worms I'm not opening today).
Its impossible for us to not associate that when they say textually that she is "the spicy character", and that probably there weren't many latino writters in the room when they did that (I hope I'm wrong, I really hope I'm wrong)
Skelita Calaveras was a hit here in latinoamerica and especially in México because she was designed by a latina woman. Jinafire raised some red flags because she was designed by the same latina woman. It's important to give minorities the final decision as to how they want to be represented.
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