ABSTRACT
It seems unlikely that there could be any other region of the earth in which nature and human behavior could have combined to produce a more unhappy and hopeless background for the conduct of human life than in Latin America. Stereotyping takes place both from inside and outside of a society or culture. For example, for people in Latin America, Europe, Asia, or other places in the world, individuals in the United States might be viewed as loud, fat, prudish, fried-food-eating, gun-packing cowboys. Stereotypes are likely to categorize individuals into neat little boxes. In 1992, historian Fredrick B. Pike wrote a book on Latin American stereotypes under the broad umbrella of US–Latin American relations. Early contacts with the newly formed Latin American nations were brief and mostly political in nature. At the beginning of the film, Mariachi lives in a small village that supports itself making and selling guitars.
