Blog 8: Latinx/Hispanic People in the Media

 

Latinx/Hispanic People in the Media

Day to day Latinx/Hispanic people face negative stereotypes portrayed by the mainstream media and must combat the everyday life of being falsely portrayed in mass media. The first thing that comes to mind are the ignorant Americans who do not value some of the Hispanic population working a lot of these jobs. People will complain about how Hispanics are flooding jobs in America with no green card or they are just simply taking all of the jobs for "actual Americans." Although I get their argument but at the same time they are just like anyone else serving work hours to get a paycheck and make the world better. Consider this; Would you rather want to hire an experienced construction worker who happens to be Hispanic or do you want to hire an 18-year-old who happens to be white and only worked at McDonald's? Those with common sense would go for the experienced worker because they will put in the most work effort and they know exactly what they are doing. Hard work comes from your core values no matter the color of your skin or your background.

Hard work comes from your heart and not your skin color because I see a ton of people who do not agree with that statement on social media, the news, and just going out in public. Also, if these people who don't want them "taking our jobs" why don't they do something about it instead of just complaining all the time while the Hispanics are being productive with their time.

A lot of the times, immigrants pick up low income jobs with labor heavy duties. A lot of Hispanics immigrants work out in the fields gathering fruits and vegetables for hours and hours to earn little money. If you ask those people who claim Latinos are stealing jobs to work those jobs, they would not want to. So Hispanics and any other immigrants who are working for a better life are not stealing jobs, just doing the hard jobs that many people don’t want to do.