Skin Color Discrimination In Mexico

Prompt Revision Skin color discrimination in Mexico has impacted the lives of the Mexican community by dividing class by color, Ruining future generations self image, and it has kept dark Mexicans out of media. First, in Mexico, one’s hue affects whether they are a high, middle, or low class citizen. In 1910, in Mexico the government decided, “in an apparent effort to win over the upper class… to adopt images of more European looking Mexicans” (DLSM by McClatchy Foreign Staff pg. 3 paragraph 15). Reading this I realized that the high/upper class citizens were primarily light skinned people. The government wanted to impress upper class citizens by making themselves appear lighter to the public using various forms of media. A different quote from “MRCPAS” by Roque Planason said, “Mexicans tend to place higher value on light skin.” When society values a certain attribute, people with that trait benefit greatly while people without that trait unfairly suffer. Therefore, a light skinned person is likely to be hired instead of a dark skinned person, and make more money. This leads to division, division in class, wealth, the neighborhood they live in, and once these little things start to divide the people so does their
An article titled “MRPACRCPS” by Roque Planason, exposes the impact of media on children's attitude about race. The article discusses interviews from a video called “The Doll Experiment” in which children are presented with a black doll and a white doll, then they were asked questions like “Which is the ugly one and which is the pretty one?” The children associated dark skin with negative traits like being ugly and stupid while they associated light skin with positive traits such as being pretty and smart. Even dark skinned children called themselves ugly and dumb. The children of Mexico are set up for failure because society forces negative stereotypes onto