In an article posted on huffingtonpost.com titled "Montezuma's Revenge: Can The Best Thing About Mexico Really Be
Beverly Hills Chihuahua?", blogger Betsy Perry caught flack and offended more than a few people in her rant about Mexico. Here are a few excerpts:
"Warned against eating anything that might have been touched by the Mexican help with hands washed in parasite infested tap water, you'd live on guacamole and Doritos even at the finest hotels."
"Nowadays the best PR Mexico has is the movie "Beverly Hills Chihuahua." Between the guns, drugs, kidnappings and swine flu, this poor country can't catch a break and, maybe it shouldn't. Getting Montezuma's Revenge seems the least of Mexico's headaches for now.""I really don't want to get into the immigration issue because I do believe everyone has a right to work but if this country doesn't get a grip on its banditos and blast the heck out of the corrupt police forces, Mexico is going to get a big time out and spend years on the naughty chair list.
""...can it be we have been looking for just this swine flu excuse to close our borders to Mexico?"
You can read the whole post
here: Since
posting this article, Perry has since apologized after facing a huge amount of backlash from her article.
Do you think this article crossed the line and find it offensive?
Comments (10)
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If the blogger apologized, why are you bringing it up again?
mm, perpetuating negative stereotypes. i guess you have to read it tongue-in-cheek. maybe eat some cow tongue so you can have more than the usual amount of tongue in your cheek
Wouldn't that almost count as slander?
not really. some parts of it is true. people talk about asians and asian countries all the time, i dont want to be mean or anything but im glad the shoe is on the other foot. give asians a break for a change.
I did not read the whole article but it sounded like it was clearly a joke to me. I hear lots of jokes about America some of them not so nice many of them with a hint of truth to them. I try to take things the way they were intended and not be so quick to take offence.
Racism!
It's stuff we've all heard before, so it's not shocking... but it is still offensive.
If you think this is bad, you should hear the things my parents say.
...which sounds like a witty comment but I'm absolutely serious, although their comments usually start out insulting illegal immigrants, and progress onto the entire country. I can't even repeat the comments they make here, they're that bad.
When you take into consideration the Americans complain about other countries, and other countries complain about Americans and all other countries, this isn't so bad. I'm sure that regular people say much worse things in their homes, they just don't voice it publicly.
It's a constant cycle of remarks about other people, their countries, and their cultures. That is all.