The principal notion about life revealed in this essay is that in Western societies the Latin Women are viewed stereotypically as a sex object or selfless housewives and obsequious workers. Otherwise, some people believe and perpetuate stereotypes about particular ethnic groups while in reality those myths can be related to few members of that ethnic group. In this essay the author Judith Ortiz Cofer discusses how she has been treated by different people in different countries due to their conception of her as a Latin woman. The author refers to the several incidents where she has been viewed stereotypically as...
brown-skinned woman. She says she felt disappointment at that time because by her work she was perpetuating the stereotype of the women of her nationality as hot-blooded and hot-tempered sex kittens. The money received for Oscar she donated toward the civil rights movement. To escape from racism Rita went to London but after some month she returned because she found more racism there. Rita Morena says that even today, after many years, the situation hasnt changed. Here we see that the whole life of a talented person was darkened by the stereotype that follows that person even today.