Pinche americanos

It is a well-known fact down here that Mexican men expect American women to be easy.  The females in my group are extremely frustrated by the "American women are sluts" stereotype, which leads to no end of harassment on the street and in the clubs, earned by nothing more than the color of their skin.  But where did this perception come from in the first place?  I did a little thinking and observing, and have a theory:

Mexicans think American women are sluts because they are.

Now for the clarifying statements that will hopefully get me out of trouble.  The women in my BCA group do not fit this stereotype, nor do the women I know at the Escuela para Estudiantes Extranjeros in Xalapa.  But, as Amy notes, people notice the bad things easier than they notice the good, and the fact is a lot more American girls show up in Mexico to party than to study.

Well all know all about Cancún and Tijuana.  Throngs of Americans flood to these touristy towns (particularly Tijuana, being a border town) to get party all night and get trashed.  So now you have bunches of really drunk white chicks coming on to people left and right.  Combine that with cultural differences in dress (short shorts and spaghetti-straps are definite no-no's in Mexico) and you have a very skewered perception of the northern neighbors.

The other group at Universal with us definitely fit the stereotype.  They go out every single night, get hammered, do drugs, bring people of the opposite sex home with them (very much taboo here), and blabber on and on in English.  I am sick of them.