Topic > Value of Racial Stereotypes in Los Vendidos by Luiz Valdez

Value of Racial Stereotypes Most people in their lives have been looked down upon because of their race. Society has made skin color an issue. Nowadays it is looked down upon if someone associates with someone who is not the same color as other people. Luiz Valdez tells us his story of boycott against winemakers. This tells the readers that he was against stereotypes. Some can understand it from the fact that he is playing “Los Vendidos”. The show begins with honest Sancho dusting off the models. Miss Jimenez enters the shop explaining to Sancho that she is Governor Regan's secretary. He is trying to buy a "Mexican type" to attract a larger voting public. Sancho shows Miss Jimenez four different models, snapping his fingers. The show is set in Honest Sancho's Mexican used lot and Mexican curio shop. Valdez tells of a shopkeeper Honest Sancho, who sells various models of stereotypical Mexicans and Mexican-Americans that buyers can take control of simply by snapping their fingers and shouting commands. In Luiz's play, Mexican stereotypes tend to be rejected by society. This is demonstrated when a secretary named Miss Jimenez came to the governor's office to purchase a "brown skinned robot." For the Regan administration because it would make a good impression to have a "Mexican guy" on the staff. (Valdez 938) The secretary gives Sancho a list of peculiar elements she wants in a Mexican type for administration, such as the ability to speak English. Secretaries don't like any of the models because of the weaknesses she found in each of them. It shows readers how unreasonable people are quick to judge something. Discrimination against race causes some Mexican-Americans to choose to ignore their race and attempt to separate from their ethnicity. The secretary feels alien to her own culture because her culture is incorporated into the culture of the United States. Sancho is still socially and culturally different from other Chicanos. Both characters demonstrate their guilt. The secretary is the external group and Sancho is the internal member of the Mexican race group. Both characters are abnormal figures who can be considered role models for Chicanos. Mexicans living in the United States maintain their loyalty to their group from external pressures that cause them to turn against their race. Miss Jimenez is the one who can't maintain her culture. She loses her ethical identity as a Mexican since she decided to be American. In the play, Miss Jimenez is shown to try to identify herself as a