>>>WHEN WE ARE OUTSIDE OF OUR ENVIRONMENT,
WE OFTEN CARRY PREDETERMINED CULTURAL IMAGES IN OUR MINDS
ABOUT THE PLACE OF OUR DESTINY,
CULTURE AND THE PEOPLE WHOM WE INTERACT WITH DAY TO DAY.
TODAY WE WANT TO ADDRESS THESE SOCIAL,
CULTURAL OR RACIAL STEREOTYPES.
AND TO DISCUSS THIS ISSUE WE HAVE ELIZABETH CARDONA;
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF MULTI CULTURAL AFFAIRS
AND LIVE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS OF BAY PATH AND JAVIER VENTUREN
PERUVIAN OF ITALIAN DESCENT TEACHES SPANISH LITERATURE
AND INTERNATIONAL CINEMA AT ELMS COLLEGE.
JAVIER WHERE AND WHY DO THESE TYPE OF THINKING
AND STEROTYPES ARISE? WHERE ARE THESE STEROTYPES COMING FROM?
>>>WELL STEREOTYPES HAVE HISTORICAL ROOTS, NO ?,
AND OBVIOUSLY WE ARE INHERITANCE OF THE PAST.
STEREOTYPES ALSO TRANSMIT THROUGH GENERATIONS. REGRETTABLY,
STEREOTYPES ARE AN EXAGGERATED REPRESENTATION OF A REALITY,
OF PEOPLE TOO, AND OBVIOUSLY THE PROBLEM IS THAT IT
HAS A PERMANENT TENDENCY WHICH AT A CERTAIN MOMENT
AND IN A SPECIFIC TIME OF THE TIME WE ARE GOING TO SAY THAT
THEY BECOME INSTRUMENTS OF OPPRESSION AND CREATE STIGMA.
ALSO ESPECIALLY IN THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY.
>>>THE SADNESS THAT COMES FROM IDEOLOGY, O BECAUSE IS AN RELITY
>>> EFFECTIVELY. AND IT IS EXACTLY THAT THE PROBLEM.
OUR MISSION IS NOT ONLY TO CONTRIBUTE IN CREATING
A SOCIAL AWARENESS TO THE RESPECT,
TO DISMISS THE STEREOTYPES AND ALSO TO DESTROY THE STIGMS
THAT CAUSE IN OUR POPULATION.
>>> ELIZABETH, YOU HAVE WORKED FOR MANY YEARS SERVING
THE COMMUNITY IN DIFFERENT ASPECTS BOTH PERSONAL
AND IN YOUR CAREER.
WHAT EXAMPLE CAN YOU GIVE ME
THAT YOU HAVE SEEN PERSONALLY AFFECTED?
>>> WHEN I HAVE COME TO A POSITION SOMETIMES AS THE EXPECTATION
IS VERY DIFFERENT, TO BE ABLE TO COMBAT THESE STEREOTYPES,
YOU NEED TO HAVE MANY KNOWLEDGE,
THIS BEGINS FROM INSIDE TO OUTSIDE,
I HAVE TO KNOW WHO I AM AS A WOMAN LATINA AND THROUGH THAT
IN THE EXAMPLES THAT I GIVE IN MY WORK,
IN MY PERSONAL LIFE, I AM CHANGING THAT DYNAMIC.
>>> IN YOUR CASE JAVIER YOUR CAREER GIVES YOU FOR YOUR CRITICAL
BEING OF ALL THAT THE MOVIES ARE AND WHAT YOU
CREATE THROUGH THE IMAGES OF THE TELEVISION
>>> TALKING ABOUT A CINEMATOGRAPHIC SPEECH,
THERE IS A PROBLEM AS TO THE CINEMATOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION
OF OUR COMMUNITY, STEREOTYPES.
>>> WE ARE 154 BILLION HISPANICS HERE IN THE UNITED STATES
>>> BUT UNFORTUNATELY THE ROLES ARE THE SAME,
ROLS THAT WE INTERPRETS IS THE MEMBER OF THE DRUG DEALER
OR DOMESTIC AND I THINK THAT OUR COMMUNITY TODAY
IS VERY MUCH MORE THAN THAT;
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAVE OBTAINED SUCCESS AND I THINK
THAT IT IS NECESSARY ALSO TO BE SEEN.
THE CINEMATOGRAPHIC IS A VERY POWERFUL INSTRUMENT
AND I INSIST THAT AND THROUGH MY CLASSES I HELP STUDENTS
TO HAVE CULTURAL EXHIBITION OF OTHER MOVIES THAT UNFORTUNATELY
DO NOT ARRIVE TO THE UNITED STATES,
WE HAVE THAT PROBLEM ALSO.
AS REGARDS THE REPRESENTATION OF OUR COMMUNITY,
NOT ONLY IN THE UNITED STATES BUT ON A GLOBAL LEVEL BECAUSE
IT IS ALWAYS GLOBAL, OUR COMMUNITY IS ALL OVER THE WORLD,
NOT ONLY IN AMERICA.
>>> IN A GENERIC WAY THE MAJOR STEREOTYPES THAT WE CAN HEAR
AND OBSERVE THAT THE PEOPLE HAVE WITH THE HISPANICS
>>> THERE ARE MANY UNFORTUNATELY, BETWEEN THEM WE CAN QUOTE
THAT "WE ARE A BURDING FOR SOCIETY" OR THAT "WE ARE WEAK"
THAT DO NOT CONTRIBUTE TO THE PROGRESS OF THIS COUNTRY WHAT
I THINK THAT TIME TO BE ABLE TO DISMISS THESE STEREOTYPES
AND ALSO TO DESTROY THE STIGMS THAT ARE ALSO AFFERING THIS COMMUNITY.
>>> HOW CAN WE IMPROVE THIS SITUATION?
>>> USE SOCIAL MEDIA TO CONTINUE, AMPLIFY THIS ESUE
AND ALSO GIVE EXAMPLES OF THE PEOPLE WE HAVE IN OUR COMMUNITIES
WHO ARE DOING GOOD THINGS.
>>> DISMISSING THE STEREOTYPES DEPENDS ON OURSELVES ALSO,
WE CAN NOT EXPECT THAT THEY ARE LAWS OR POLITICIANS
THAT TAKE PART IN THIS PROJECT, DEPENDS ON OURSELVES.
>>> SOMETIMES WE ARE REQUIRED TO BE THE LEADERS
OF CHANGE AND NOT NECESSARILY WE HAVE TO BE LARGE
AS A TEAM AND INDIVIDUALLY WE CAN MAKE THAT CHANGE.
>>> SHARING GOOD EXPERIENCES AND PRACTICES NOT ALWAYS