The fifth season of Cobra Kai was characterized by its excess of clichés and racist stereotypes against Mexico, and these scenes are proof of this
Cobra Kai was placed as one of the most successful series in recent years on the largest entertainment platform, but its fifth season can be classified as racist by exaggerating clichés and stereotypes about Mexico.
[ALERTA SPOILERS]
This text contains potential spoilers for the fifth season of Cobra Kai, so reading it is at your own risk.
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In this new season, Miguel travels to Mexico to meet his father, who abandoned him and his mother when the Cobra Kai dojo student was a baby.
Unfortunately, on this trip there are very unfortunate scenes which can be classified as racist and in bad taste. We list some of these sequences below
that’s not mexico
The Cobra Kai production team decided to film the scenes that apparently take place in Mexico in Puerto Rico, one of the most common mistakes of many productions that ignore Mexican traditions and customs.
In Cobra Kai, this decision is surprising, since the plot takes place in Los Angeles, the second city with the most Mexicans in the world, even surpassing states like Zacatecas.
crime on the beaches
Unfortunately, crime is one of the aspects that makes the country look bad, but in Cobra Kai they exaggerate this problem when Miguel arrives at a beach to ask for information on how to get to the place where his father can be located.
In this scene, all Mexicans are portrayed, especially those who live in beach areas as thieves or swindlers, something that is further from reality, since on Mexican beaches millions of Mexicans work every day to get ahead. .
That’s not how the tianguis are
Another of the common stereotypes in American productions is to think that in the tianguis they only sell corn, Esquites and something similar to pupusas (a dish originating from regions such as Honduras and El Salvador, not from Mexico).
Cobra Kai definitely needs a location manager who can reliably portray what the markets and street markets are like in Mexico (If the markets had sold tacos, they wouldn’t have started badly).
Mexico is not only chicharrón
Seriously, the production of Cobra Kai was carried away more by stereotypes than by fairly well-done research, and that can be seen in the scene where Miguel (Xolo Marudueña) meets his father Héctor (Luis Roberto Guzmán).
Héctor could offer a glass of water, a soft drink, or any kind of snack, but instead, Miguel’s father offers him chicharrón, as if it were the only thing Mexicans eat (Chicharrón is rich, but it is not the common snack)
The chili battle
Another one of Cobra Kai’s unfortunate moments is when Robbie (Tanner Buchanan) comes out on top in a chili-eating contest against a bigger guy who can’t beat the habaneros.
Gentlemen of Cobra Kai, if you visit anywhere in Mexico, there is no chili eating tournament anywhere, that is an American stereotype, which falls into a common place.
And of course the public criticized the clichés that Cobra Kai reflected from Mexico
Miguel’s scenes in Mexico (PR) were totally unnecessary, with a sincere talk with his mother we would have avoided the cliché of marginality and filth with which they always paint LATAM #CobraKai
– Carolina Cardozo 🇵🇾🇧🇷 (@Carolin82383095) September 10, 2022
In the last season of #CobraKai They put all the stereotypes of Mexico (sepia tone, chili contests, piñatas everywhere). Netflix should worry more about debunking the image Americans have of Mexico and the rest of Latin America. Bad there.
– Max Roldan (@MaxRoldanTena) September 11, 2022
Thanks to #CobraKai I learned that you can’t trust Australian surfers in Mexico because they can rip you off, I also didn’t know that in Mexico we had Central American and Caribbean accents. And so that you have no doubt that you are in Mexico, the sepia filter could not be missing 😎👌🏼🇲🇽 pic.twitter.com/WI0DgaXDMo
— Eder Alamilla (@Yorkx_Universe) September 11, 2022
No one:
Absolutely nobody:
Mexico in the new season of #CobraKai pic.twitter.com/cU3iafoQp5
– Joaquín Bravo (@JoaqunBravo15) September 12, 2022
#CobraKaiusing the typical sepia filter in the shots located in Mexico 😂 pic.twitter.com/ZoQghqnxqd
– Juanito Snow 🅙 (@juanito_snow) September 9, 2022
Source: Netflix
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