Memin Pinguin 51 100 Pdf
Sherice Golar
Memin is no stranger to controversy. Three years ago, a series of Mexican stamps honoring Memin ignited an international uproar. The stamps were discontinued because of protests from African-American leaders.
i am from mexico , and i belive all the people who say is racist needs to learn spanish and our culture to understand that is just the story of a poor boy in mexico, and that it has good moral teachings, the problem is that here in mexico we dont have racism like the one in the u.s. , we dont have hate groups like the kkk and things like that , to us is just a comic book character, we dont make fun of him for the fact that he is black , we also have characters with stereotypes of mexicans and we dont find it offensive.
I think you are musunderstanding this as a Spanish speaking Mexican American who grew up in a poor neighborhood with African -American friends I think this book actually teaches people about tolerance and accpetance and social equility. Its a very comical book but also deals with a lot of real issues such as discrimination and prejudice. it also comments on child abandonment, poverty and social justice. Unfortunately, most of these messages will be lost if you are not familiar with the Mexican culture.
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I like that term. The *inner fears* (?) that occur between two groups of people that can lead to mistruths and disinformation that in the end harms BOTH groups. The rejection of that which is similar, the denying of rights and the humanity of those who are your fellow citizens; the hatred and contempt for anyone who is not white/European.
I viewed your video, and it was very informative. The image of Memin is very similar to the racist stereotypical images that white supremacists have created to degrade and disparage Black Americans for centuries. Even though this is a book written in Spanish for Mexico, Central America, and the Spanish-speaking parts of the Caribbean, its exaggerated caricatured Sambo-type images of a black male cannot help but offend and insult Americans.
Why are so many Latino nations so quick to present the *lightened* face of Latin America to the world, but on the other hand, are so quick to hide the African face, and thereby hide the African influence on all of Latin America?
Because in Latin America light skin represents power and wealth and there is a strict association between whiteness and wealth according to their cultures. The reason they hide the African part of the population is because being black was and is today see as a sign of stigma that one should be ashamed of. There was a racial hierarchy that puts dark skin on the bottom and light skin on the top. So light skin is a domination in all cultures. Being dark was seen as inferior as well.
These african-americans are a complete shame to themselves. They bitch and moan and know nothing about other cultures.
As hispanic born in Honduras; I grew up reading Memin and enjoyed the reading because of the lessons in the comics. Every story in those episodes of Memin brought a lot of sense and had nothing to deal with racism. Many stories in Memin comics taught me to be a more responsible individual.
These african americans should work more. Lots of people complain of their ways of getting free money.
It is sad to say it but it is a reality in this country. Nobody likes these african americans even the real africans. Ask the africans and they will tell you what they really think about these so called african americans.
No one has black Americans/Afro-Mexicans/Afro-Bolivians/AFRO-LATINOS interests in mind but black Americans/Afro-Latinos. Very few non-blacks speak up for or give a damn about black Americans/Afro-Latinos.
He was waiting at an airport with a black friend. The friend noticed some Eastern Europeans who had just disembarked from a plane. The friend commented on how wonderful they must feel to have arrived in America.
WE have been suffering the brunt of the loss of jobs, dignity, respect, and acknowledgement of our humanity, from millions of non-blacks who perceive themselves better than us, just because the white man said so.
Do Mexicans consider themselves as white BEFORE they arrive in America? Do they not classify themselves as white when seeking entrance to America? Do they not come to this country with hated racist preconceived prejudices against black Americans, prejudices already formed from their own treatment of the Afro-Mexicans in Mexico?
Why would mestizos discriminate against those who are non-white? Because the despisement of blackness/exalting of whiteness has been taught to millions of people in this world, and Mexico and very much of Latin America is no different from the United States in its racist hatred of black peoples.
ALL humans have prejudice. Lies that you (spoken in the general sense) do not have prejudice is to lie to yourself. What matters is how you harness and stamp out those prejudices that curtail and control your perceptions of people different from you.
What matters in the end is if humans will allow greed, hate, and racist projections to win the day or if they will accept the fact that they, and all in their country, in this world, are in this together.
All the hispanic people who support memin pinguin need to agree then, that speedy gonzales is a character that is part of american history and deserves to be shown on tv whenever possible and i want to see all the walmart shirts come back with him on it.
watch the hispanics form protests talking about how evil we americans are yet when you compare our immigration laws TODAY (as in arizonas new laws today) with mexicos immigration laws you find a HUGE difference. all i can say is, any mexican who says that america is racist obviously has never looked into their precious motherlands laws before, and naturally so! the laws in mexico FORBID citizens from being involved with national affairs as well! lol so i say go back to mexico if we are so damn racist, maybe then you short-termed memory f**ks will remember the bigotry you swimmed in everyday down there.
I see very few ignorant people on this discussion and to you all I applaud, but what I think few of you fail to understand, is that racism has been around almost since the seperation of man into the different cultures around the world.
I think you are completely wrong.This magazine is nothing to do with racist.I read these magazines for years in Mexico and i learned a lot of these ones.I love Memin Pinguin and his mom because they are like any other family who has good and hard times.The translation from Spanish to English is horrible.They use the dictionary, and the magazine is with slang words that are not in the dictionary(like the same in English or any other idiom).We never in our minds tried to insult these characters.Do not follow whatever this man said in Texas.I think his name is McGinthy and he did the impossible to remove from the Walmart stores this magazine.He misunderstood this magazine,He saw Memin Pinguin like a monkey because he is a racist.I do not ever saw M,P. like a monkey!!!This magazine is education, with a lot of knowledge of life.Please, if you do not speak Spanish, look for somebody who speaks Spanish and that person can really tell you what it says in this magazine.Thanks in advance for the people who understand what i am explaying.
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