The Mexican Image of Americans

States. Few images reach them through the printed word, and, although half of the movies shown each week in the Mexican theaters are about the United States, almost all are Westerns which depict an outmoded if not fantastic version of American society and culture. On the other hand, they have a good deal of experience with Americans directly. The majority of adult males in many small towns in such centrally located states as Michoacan or Jalisco have been in the United States, and in nearly every Mexican town and urban neighborhood will be found some residents who have visited the country. Millions of contrabandos, or wetbacks, cross the border each year for varying lengths of time, and virtually every Mexican has some close friend or relative who is a permanent resident in the United States. The number of upperand middle-class Mexicans who have been students in American universities and who thereby know Americans and United States civilization is small compared with that of lower-class migrants

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• Images and Influences

  Open Access•Joedd Price•Latin American Research Review•1975

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• International Exchanges and the U.S. Image

  Open Access•Nancy Snow•The Annals of the American…•2008

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• Dreams of Development in Mexico and Spain

  Open Access•Michael David Snodgra, Michael David Snodgrass•Comparative Studies in Society…•2022

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• Research in the Field of International Exchanges in Education, Science and Culture

  Open Access•Otto Klineberg•Social Science Information•1965

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