Latino Media Stereotypes

Latino-related news stories make up less than 1% of all news stories
A cool fact is that the Latino population makes up 13% of the US population
In 2001, crime, poverty, illegal immigration, terrorism and welfare accounted for 66% of all news stories involving Latinos.

Famous Latino people:
Salma Hayek

Penelope Cruz

Gabriel Iglesias

Antonio Banderas

Carlos Mencia

Shakira

Enrique Iglesias

Luiz Guzman

Esteban Batista

Nick Diaz

Andy Garcia

Cote De Pablo

George Lopez

Steven Bauer

Eva Mendes

John Leguizamo

Jose Canseco

Carlos Santana

Latino Stereotypes

This sucks. Nice Latin people getting harassed by stereotypes like this? WTF? What the hell is wrong with this picture? Latin people getting insulted like this? WTF?

Some of the most common stereotypes include:

• Being heavily tattooed
• Enjoy driving low rider cars
• Having too-greasy hair
• The "Latin Lover": very romantic, charming
• Large families
• Can't speak English well
• Drug dealers(thanks to the movie Scarface)
• Exotic lovers
• Laborers
• Mouthy
• All live in 1 house
• Enjoy clothing in loud, obnoxius colors
• Gardeners/landscapers
• Maid/Housekeeper
• All are Mexican
• Has multiple kids
• All have large SUVs
• Being short
• Uneducated
• All listen to the same music and eat hot food

Also, in the US, there are Latin neighborhoods all over, most of the Latin neighborhoods seem to be of Mexican heritage, meaning there are nice Mexican people living there.

• Los Angeles: means "The Angels" in Spanish. Home to over 1 million people of Mexican ancestry, another 2 million located throughout Los Angeles county, and 5 million located throughout the 5 greater Los Angeles county areas
• Culver City, California: site of the famous Zoot Suit Riots of 2011