Word: latinized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another entrant to the list is Running Scared with Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal. The crime-fighting duo takes on one gangster, who (you guessed it) is a Latin American drug dealer longing to control the Chicago drug supply...
Drug leaders, gang leaders, crime leaders, bad guys. Cocaine and a drug lord--must be a Latin American. A criminal plus a heavy accent--must be another...
...Latin American so negatively portrayed in movies these days...
...Latin American's turn. When the movie industry limits its portayal of the Latin American, the audience observes him with this same limited perspective. This negative standpoint becomes the perspective from which the entire Latin American community is viewed. An audience sees a stereotypical Latin American character and assumes that all Latin Americans are just a bunch of drug-dealing criminals...
...this same audience that visits Miami and thinks every Cuban living there will steal all their valuables. It is this same audience that looks at the antics of Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega and says, "That's what Latin Americans are supposed to do. We've seen this stuff in the movies...