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Web project targets Latino stereotypes
Arizona Republic ^ | May 10, 2006 | Yvonne Wingett

Posted on 05/10/2006 9:04:36 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

PHOENIX -- A middle-age Hispanic man pushes a mower across the lawn of a giant home in an affluent neighborhood. A middle-age white woman pulls up driving a BMW.

"Can you please come here por favor," she said, sticking her head out the window. "I was wondering how much you charge to landscape this home?"

The man stops and asks: "Why would I charge to landscape my own yard?"

She blushes and drives off. The commercial clip later freezes and an on-screen message appears: "I am an American."

The commercial is being filmed for a new Web site created by two 30-something Phoenix Republicans frustrated by the political rhetoric over illegal immigration. Inspired by the recent pro-immigrant student walkouts, marches and demonstrations in Phoenix, Bettina Nava and Max Fose launched www.iamaproudamerican.com.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: fritobandito; hispanics; latino; speedygonzalez; stereotypes
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1 posted on 05/10/2006 9:04:37 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Ohh puuhhhleeze ... PC sucks!


2 posted on 05/10/2006 9:05:39 AM PDT by bassmaner (Let's take the word "liberal" back from the commies!!)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

If 90% of the landscapers in my neighborhood are Hispanic, how is that a stereotype?


3 posted on 05/10/2006 9:07:32 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (ICE, ICE Baby.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

I am actually glad to see the legal Hispanic communities standing up and separating themselves from the illegal immigration debate. The illegal side is trying to make this a 'Hispanic' issue, when in reality, this is an issue on illegal entry, not on someone's cultural or racial identity.


4 posted on 05/10/2006 9:07:46 AM PDT by mnehring (http://abaraxas.blogspot.com/)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Sounds like an American doing a job Americans won't do to me. What a stupid ad.


5 posted on 05/10/2006 9:07:53 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Never a minigun handy when you need one.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

And who's being stereotyped here? Oops, white and successful? She doesn't count.


6 posted on 05/10/2006 9:08:37 AM PDT by D.P.Roberts
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Here we go now starts the ads on TV. Demonstrating and showing their muggs on TV weekly isn't enough for them.


7 posted on 05/10/2006 9:08:43 AM PDT by stopem (To allow a bunch of third world country nationals to divide Americans is unconscionable!)
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To: VeniVidiVici
If 90% of the landscapers in my neighborhood are Hispanic, how is that a stereotype?

Some stereotypes are grounded in truth.

black NBA players.

white NHL players.

etc.

8 posted on 05/10/2006 9:09:02 AM PDT by peyton randolph (Time for an electoral revolution where the ballot box is the guillotine)
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To: VeniVidiVici
If 90% of the landscapers in my neighborhood are Hispanic, how is that a stereotype?

I think the problem is assuming that if someone is Hispanic, they are illegal. The pro-Illegal side is trying to make this an argument about the entire Hispanic community, not about illegal immigration.

9 posted on 05/10/2006 9:09:41 AM PDT by mnehring (http://abaraxas.blogspot.com/)
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To: bassmaner

Yes- we may not assume this is a Hispanic laborer, even though 99% of the hispanics we see mowing yards in Atlanta are exactly that. The thought police will not permit us to use the logical law of probabilities.


10 posted on 05/10/2006 9:09:53 AM PDT by mikeus_maximus (I didn't leave the Republican Party. The Republican Party left me.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

I do my own lawns as do most of my neighbors since we can't afford what these "americans" charge.


11 posted on 05/10/2006 9:10:32 AM PDT by Awestruck (All the usual suspects)
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To: bassmaner

Even if it is the truth?


12 posted on 05/10/2006 9:11:58 AM PDT by mlc9852
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
American Muslims should have started a campaign: "At airports, if you see us, you should search us and question us. We have nothing to hide. We are good Americans. We understand why you are afraid, but we are with you!"

Hispanic Americans should start a campaign: "The US needs a national ID system so that illegal aliens can be identified. Employers and landlords who do business with people without these ID cards should be punished. We are good Americans. We have nothing to hide. We are with you!"

13 posted on 05/10/2006 9:12:53 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Never question Bruce Dickinson!)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Just because he owns the house doesn't mean he'a A.) An American or B.) legal.


14 posted on 05/10/2006 9:15:21 AM PDT by Bikers4Bush (Flood waters rising, heading for more conservative ground. Vote for true conservatives!)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
What is dees Stariotype I keep hearing about Seesco?


15 posted on 05/10/2006 9:16:08 AM PDT by n230099 ("If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.")
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

"The man stops and asks: "Why would I charge to landscape my own yard?"

When my wife and I moved into her parents home after the death of her mother I was mowing the lawn one day and the next door neighbor asked me how much I would charge to mow his lawn. Everyone in the neighborhood used a gardener but me.


16 posted on 05/10/2006 9:16:15 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: Bikers4Bush

<< Just because he owns the house doesn't mean he'a A.) An American or B.) legal. >>

or C.) not a professional landscaper working in his yard on his day off. ;-)


17 posted on 05/10/2006 9:19:51 AM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: ClearCase_guy

Shouldn't anyone who is supposed to be here and is allowed to work have a social security card?


18 posted on 05/10/2006 9:19:51 AM PDT by ark_girl
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To: dljordan

I think I'm the only person in Georgetown (DC) who weed-whacks her own yard. (BTW, I went out and bought my weed-whacker this past May 1st.)


19 posted on 05/10/2006 9:20:29 AM PDT by AirForceBrat23
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Well , I don't see any thing wrong with the ad myself and kind of glad they are putting it out because of family reasons. Its good to remind people once in a while that people have some assumptions that are wrong once in a while. Its like the article says ,the ads are edgy and a little uncorfortable but thats what makes them memorable.


20 posted on 05/10/2006 9:22:42 AM PDT by catholicfreeper
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