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Fiction writers seem to not just confuse Mexico and Spain, but to fuse them into a strange amalgam of the most general stereotypes of both, much as Scotireland fuses Scotland and Ireland. Maybe it's because they share a language and their majority religion, the fact that Mexico used to be part of the Spanish Empire, that both populations tend to be tanned and are genetically related after centuries of intermarrying, that they both have exotic foods and customs compared to an Anglo-Saxon culture,note And compared to each other, as well. or simply that the author didn't check the facts and hasn't travelled much, either. American writers (and particularly those in California) also have the excuse that Mexico is literally over the border from the US note (Alta) California was part of Mexico from September 27, 1821 to February 2, 1848. while Spain is an ocean away, so the more familiar Mexican culture to them colors their perception of Spain. This approach, naturally, requires the writer to ignore that Mexican culture owes as much to the native cultures that existed there before the Spanish conquest, like the Maya and the Aztec/Mexica ones, as it does to Spain's (although Hollywood has never showed its strength when having to keep those apart either), that Mexico is more influenced by U.S. culture than Spain is, and that the two countries are, simply put, an ocean apart from each other and have been not under the same flag for almost two centuries now, meaning that they have had ample room to develop independently from each other - be it in law, politics, holidays, food, dress, music or even language. Indeed, not only do they speak different dialects of Spanish in Spain and Mexico (the epic wars between supporters of Castilian and Latin American dubs on YouTube are a testament to that) but there are also different accents and dialects within the countries themselves. In short, saying Spain and Mexico are the same is like saying that the United Kingdom and the United States are the same. This trope came to be due to the "Good Neighbor Policy" in the 1930s and 1940s, when America sought friendly non-interventional diplomatic ties with Latin American countries. Prior to this, works that revolve around Spanish language and culture focused directly towards Spain. Following the Spanish Civil War and Francisco Franco's regime, media, especially Hollywood media, sought for easier and more practical alternatives, and with Franklin D. Roosevelt's implementation of the Good Neighbor Policy, they looked no further than Mexico as a shorthand for Spain, and it stuck ever since even after World War II and the death of Franco in 1975. In its usual form, this trope is represented by a group or town that is full of stereotypically Mexican or Spanish people, set in a location or doing an activity better suited to the other. That is, when they aren't just made into a mish-mash. It could be a Spanish mariachi band at a wedding instead of a tuna singing Clavelitos, or a town of thick-mustachioed men in sombreros and ponchos dancing Flamenco. When South of the Border and Latin Land are brought into the mix, it could even end with Spain being depicted as a hot, tropical jungle or desert full of revolutionary outlaws, sometimes fighting a Banana Republic run by a Fascist dictator (which might have been technically true during Franco's dictatorship, except there are no tropical jungles in Spain — but it's definitely false in anything set after 1978, and that's being generous). It also takes the form of Spanish characters sporting names or surnames that are Hispanic in origin but geographically uncharacteristic (for example, Salazar or Chávez are very common in the American continent, but actually very rare in Spain). US productions are likely to misrepresent Spaniards more often than Mexicans, since Mexicans have many more demonstrable stereotypes in American pop-culture than Spaniards do, and they will likely have a much easier time casting Mexican actors (or from anywhere else in Latin America) than Spanish ones, accents and even race be damned. The reverse also happens, with some Spanish actors have made entire careers out of playing Latinos in foreign cinema. In Japan, where both nations are equally exotic, the mix and mash is likelier to happen both ways. It cuts the other way in Europe, where British productions in particular see Mexico (and the rest of Latin America outside Brazil) as nothing more than a region of Spain with sombreros and chili where the familiar Castilian (European) version of Spanish is universally spoken. See Toros y Flamenco and South of the Border for Hollywood Atlas versions of Spain and Mexico, respectively. Contrast Latin Land for a similar fusion of different countries south of the United States in a process not that different of Spexico, with only jungle or llamas added for flavor depending on the circumstances, and narcoterrorists if convenient. Compare Latino Is Brown, when fictional depictions of Latin American characters are portrayed as Mestizos. Often linked to Developing Nations Lack Cities. Compare Far East, Ancient Grome, Scotireland, and Mayincatec. Spexico is not the only example of transatlantic fusion, however: a similar phenomenon occurs with depictions of Quebec in Hollywood movies as being full of Frenchmen with Parisian accents and mannerisms, and outside the Anglosphere some people can't see the difference between the UK and the US either. |
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DD Fist of the North Star: In addition to imitating Toki, Amiba sprinkles random Mexican cliche terms into his dialogue. | |
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Count Duckula: Spain was depicted as this in "Vampire Vacation". In fact, the first few Spaniards that Duckula encounters look more like banditos straight out of a Western. | |
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Spain Hill is a location in The World Ends with You whose only feature is... a Mexican restaurant. Note that "Spain Hill" is a real life location in Shibuya, Tokyo, in which the game is set. In reality the very Spanish embassy in Japan is located in that hill, hence the name. | |
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In Alias, Sydney went to Spain twice per season, but the language was always Latin American. The worst time was the first ("Parity"), where more than one Madrid security guard was not merely brown, but obviously Amerindian, and there was the occasional word not even used in Latin America out of Mexico (checar for "to check" - in Spain in other Latin American countries, they would have said chequear instead). | |
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In the Season 5 Angel episode "Unleashed," the episode's villain Crane says the following to his clientele (note that mole is a family of Mexican sauces): | |
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CSI: NY: In "Holding Cell", Mac investigates the death of a Barcelona businessman with the help of the victim's uncle, a member of the Catalan Mossos d'Esquadra (lit. "Squad Lads" in Catalan). Said character is played by Cuban-American actor Jsu Garcia and takes his notes in Cuban Spanish. In one scene, he mispronounces his own corps's name as Mossos de Estrada (Estrada means "covered road" in Spanish). | |
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Chuck: In "Chuck versus the Honeymooners", Chuck fights a Basque terrorist with the very non-Basque name of Juan Diego Arnaldo.note Granted, there have been Basque terrorists with entirely Castilian-sounding names, but it is uncommon and quite unrepresentative. The actor playing Arnaldo is Cuban-born Carlos Lacamara, who speaks Spanish in his native accent. | |
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All the Spanish characters in the E-Ring episode "The General" have fluctuating accents, save for Big Bad Basque terrorist Miguel Carrera, who is very consistently Mexican (even his surname has a Latin sound — in Spain Carrero or Carreras are much more common). This makes the scene in which he accuses Spain of destroying the Basque language unintentionally hilarious. | |
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A background news piece in Intelligence (2014) mentions a "Federal Police in Spain". Mexico has a federal police, but Spain doesn't.note They do have a National Police Force, which sounds like it should be roughly equivalent to the Federales if you're used to the words "national" and "federal" being largely interchangeable, but the closest Spanish equivalent to the Mexican Federal Police is actually the Civil Guard. The world of Intelligence is also apparent home to a CIA task force that plans selective killings of Basque separatists. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Das Bus", Wendell represents Mexico in Model UN, but his costume looks more Andalusian than Mexican. The tapas bar in "YOLO" has a picture of two tacos hanging on the wall. The scene where the family goes to a Mexico vs. Portugal soccer game is filled with Hispanic clichés, including a guy selling paella as a snack on the stands. |
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There is an episode of Full House where the oldest daughter tries to sell her father a trip to Spain, mariachi hat included. | |
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Gael GarcÃa Bernal, who is Mexican and has played so in Babel, has played the Argentinian Che Guevara in two different movies. He also played a Spaniard in Bad Education (2004), after convincing director Pedro Almodóvar that he could speak with a convincing Castilian accent. | |
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Whose Line Is It Anyway? Lampshaded in a sketch where Neil Ashdown is supposed to be a bartender in Spain: In another episode, during a game of Hollywood Director, the three actors play out a scene from Zorro, which takes place in Mexico. None of their fake accents are even remotely alike, prompting Ryan to comment, "Funny how we all come from a different part of Spain!" |
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Dennis the Menace: "Dennis Plasters Pamplona." The trope was obviously in the American writers' minds, given that Dennis' family arrives in Spain by train and a local bull herder uses Mexican slang constantly (even dropping an ¡Ay, Chihuahua! at some point). However, the Japanese animators were apparently as unfamiliar with Mexico as with Spain, so the Pamplona in the episode instead resembles an American Wild West town, complete with cowboys, Victorian-era clothes and technology, and even wooden sidewalks and saloon batwing doors. | |
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Before the match where Eddie Guerrero defeated Chris Jericho for the WWE European Heavyweight Title on the April 3, 2000, WWE Raw, he cut a promo where he told Chyna that he had to set her aside in order to focus on winning the European Championship to make all his ancestors in Spain proud. Commentator Jim Ross, apparently forgetting about Guerrero being a Spanish surname, said "I thought he was from El Paso." | |
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The Basque bomber in Narcos is named Efram (or Efras?) Gonzales. "Efram" is neither a Spanish nor Basque name, and the closest variant, EfraÃn, is not nearly as popular in Spain as in Latin America (it is pretty much unheard of in modern Spain). Gonzales is a spelling used in Latin America or Portugal, but not in Spain (where it would be spelled "González", unless belonging to a Latin American or Portuguese immigrant). Ironically, since the show is filmed in Colombia it is likely that the character was named after mid-20th century Colombian bandit EfraÃn González, whose entire name actually followed the Spaniard spelling. | |
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In another episode, during a game of Hollywood Director, the three actors play out a scene from Zorro, which takes place in Mexico. None of their fake accents are even remotely alike, prompting Ryan to comment, "Funny how we all come from a different part of Spain!" | |
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Empty Nest: Harry travels to Pamplona to run with the bulls and drink tequila. Tequila is a Mexican drink distilled from the American agave plant. | |
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In the 1930's Classic Disney Short Ferdinand the Bull, the narrator tells us the story is set in "sunny Spain." However, many of the Spaniards look like stereotypical Mexicans, with sombreros, brown skin, thick black mustaches, etc. | |
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In Arrested Development Maeby buys plane tickets to Portugal because she wants her parents to think she's going to South America. Later, GOB discovers the tickets and, knowing that Michael is trying to learn Spanish, he concludes that Michael is fleeing to South America. In the new series on Netflix, George Michael spends a year in "Spain" for study abroad, but from what we're shown it more closely resembles Mexico. He loses his virginity to and is implied to have impregnated his hostess, played by an American actress of Puerto Rican descent. All of the people he interacts with in "Spain" are played by Latin Americans. |
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La Flamencita of ¡Mucha Lucha!, a literal half-masked luchadora, half-flamenco dancer who plays castanets as a substitute of speech. To be fair, though, there are students from many parts of the world giving their twist on Lucha Libre (Like French Twist, the mime or Sonic Sumo from Japan). | |
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On a train from Barcelona to Zaragoza,note As well as in other places of Spain's central plateau you might be surprised to see how much the landscape of the Spanish countryside looks like classic depictions of southwestern North America (almost like a Road Runner cartoon). It is for this reason—as well as the high availability of dark-skinned, Spanish-speaking actors, that Sergio Leone and other Italian directors of "Spaghetti Westerns" tended to shoot their films in Spain, particularly in Andalucia, since getting to the actual Mexico or United States was simply too expensive. | |
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The Magic Key: The Moochacha family from “Tumbleweed Desert� live and breathe this trope. They wear sombreros and their home is located in a very Mexican-style desert, yet castanets (which the show seems to think are South American for some reason) are among the musical instruments they play and they dance flamenco-style. | |
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Done again in The Da Vinci Code, where Oviedo, Spain is portrayed as a little village where one Catholic missionary builds a church with his own hands (which would actually be uncommon in Mexico either, even in its poorest locations). | |
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Not Always Right has a woman that is not aware of Spain being "still" around and another that seems oblivious to the existence of a world outside North America (and she's also a racist who holds the South of the Border and Latin Land tropes at heart). Similarly, there are a few posts circulating here and there featuring people complaining about others calling themselves "Spanish" as "that's a language, not a country," with replies of the form "I have some very interesting news for you about a country called Spain." |
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The Ganados in Resident Evil 4 start with the wrong foot by being a gramatically wrong word,note Ganado means "livestock" and is a plural word. Making it twice plural, ganados, would not be necessarily wrong, for instance when talking about different kinds of livestock, but it is quite of an archaism, and it obviously excludes any individual usage. For every particular animal, you would say cabeza de ganado. but they also speak with Mexican accents, despite the game being set "in a village in a Castilian speaking country of Europe that is not Spain". Character Luis Sera, who was born in the village but made career as a cop in Madrid, also speaks with a Mexican accent. Of note is that an in-game map places the village in the center of the Iberian Peninsula next to Madrid, and the currency is Peseta, which was Spain's currency before switching to Euro. Capcom still insists that it is not Spain. The 2023 remake undoes this issue by having them speak in Castilian Spanish and finally acknowledging the location as rural Spain. | |
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British radio comedy show Son of Cliché had the Show Within a Show ¡Asso - Spanish Detective! Asso, a private eye working the sexy and glamorous Costa Brava and taking jobs like locating a missing drunken Englishman on holiday named only as Dave from Ardwick ("Finding a drunken Englishman on the Costa Brava. This would be difficult!''). Asso, vocally, is not so much Spanish as Mexican. | |
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One episode of Mind of Mencia had a Spanish celebrity invoke this to get into a nightclub. It Makes Sense in Context. | |
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This trope is indirectly acknowledged in the Smosh episode "Anthony is Mexican". Anthony attempts to get more in touch with his cultural heritage, and believes himself to be Mexican after Ian tells him that his surname, Padilla, is of Spanish origin. However, Ian is quick to point how that not every Spanish person is Mexican. | |
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Subverted in one episode of Jackie Chan Adventures when the Enforcers go to Pamplona, and can't remember what the town is famous for. Hak Foo suggests that it's famous for its paella, and Ratso asks if that's the thing you hit with clubs at a birthday party to get candy. Valmont points out that it's a piñata, and that they're in Spain, not in Mexico. | |
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In the episode "The Bull Market" of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Ace discovers that a stolen Mexican bull has been shipped to Spain. Of course, because there is only one city in Spain, he immediately goes to Pamplona, that happens to be in the middle of the Running of the Bulls. Except it's only the bulls who are running because the "Spaniards" are sleeping the siesta inside their ponchos and sombreros in the middle of the street. Pamplona is also portrayed as a village of white limed houses in the middle of a desert. | |
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The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones issue "The Fourth Nail" loops the loop with its visit to Argenspexico. Mapuche boleadoras are a widespread civilian weapon in Barcelona (a white village with sandy streets that people call Barcelona, that's it). Indy's local sidekick is a Gipsy pickpocket dressed like a Mexican bandito, who also cons people out of pesos, a currency never used in Spain. And like the rest of the series, the comic takes place in late 1936, a time we all know had no significance whatsoever in Barcelona's or Spain's history, so everything remains bucholic and harmless. | |
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The Lost episode "Ab Aeterno"'s flashbacks are set in the Canary Islands, yet the accents and dialects used are all Latin American Spanish. Almost an Acceptable Break from Reality, since Canary Spanish actually has an accent vaguely similar to that of some Latin American dialects. | |
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In an episode of NCIS, DiNozzo claims that paella was named after "the Aztec god of sex". Doubles it by naming the god "Paellus", which sounds like the wrong kind of Latin. | |
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In Saturday Supercade, Donkey Kong's episode "El Donkey Kong" is centered on Toros y Flamenco but takes place in Mexico. | |
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The Valley of Gwangi is set in rural Mexico, but was filmed in Spain (in AlmerÃa and Cuenca) and many of the native characters are Roma (which are much more common in Spain than Mexico). | |
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Black Velvetopia in Psychonauts combines bullfighting and Spanish architecture with Mexican luchadores and painters dressed in South of the Border-style outfits. It's mildly justified in that it takes place in the mind of an ambiguously Latino asylum patient who was never involved in bullfighting or masked Mexican wrestling to begin with, and probably hasn't ever been to Spain. | |
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In Thumbelina, "Los Sapos Guapos" come from Spain. They feature elements from Cuba, Mexico, and Argentina in their songs (and possibly more countries). They do not stop at Spexico, though - they also throw in elements from Brazil and Italy! note Amusingly, both Brazil and a good part of Italy were once part of the Spanish Empire, but judging by the rest of the product, it's unlikely the producers knew that. All while living in France. It is worth noting, however, that lead singer Mrs. Toad is voiced by actress Charo, who is a native Spaniard. | |
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Generator Rex. While fighting four highly skilled assassins in an alley, Rex crosses with Dos, who speaks Spanish. Rex, who is Hispanic himself, asks him in Spanish if he's from Mexico. Dos raises his weapon and angrily declares "¡España!" | |
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Many aspiring Spanish actors worked as extras in spaghetti westerns (shot in scenic AlmerÃa, Southern Spain) playing Mexican characters. You can make a game of watching these movies and spotting the extras who would later gain recognition. | |
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Bedazzled (2000): Brendan Fraser wakes up as a "Colombian drug lord" (a transparent expy of Pablo Escobar) after he wishes to be very rich. The Regional Riff used is "Bem, Bem, Maria" by the Gypsy Kings, a French Rumba Flamenca group with ancestry from Spain. | |
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Lampshaded in Acapulco, which is set in the titular Mexican resort town. Hector, the lead pool boy at Las Colinas, tells Maximo that he is actually Spanish, but it's all the same to the gringos. | |
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Digital Fortress portrays Seville, Spain as a Third World hellhole with rampant crime, poverty and corruption, where injured citizens have to struggle to get basic medical treatment at hospitals, and most people apparently don't have access to hot water. Brown apparently confused some of the more negative stereotypes about Mexico with Spain, which is a fairly prosperous Western European country with universal healthcare since 1986 (and a healthcare system that is considered one of the best in the world). | |
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Father of the Bride (2022): One of Natalie's first pitches for the wedding theme involves flamenco. Billy is quick to point out that flamenco is Spanish, and her clients are Mexican and Cuban. | |
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Hurricanes: Toro Contrais, a Spaniard from Pamplona, becomes the Mexican luchador "The Masked Matador" when he is expelled from the team. | |
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American Assassin: Terrorists attack a beach resort in Ibiza. Tropical vegetation? Check (the scene was actually shot in Phuket, Thailand of all places). Latin American accents? Check (not that it's uncommon to find a Latin American barman in a Spanish beach resort, however). And yet the film has many other scenes shot in Malta and Italy, which would have easily passed for Mediterranean Spain. | |
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In Murder Mystery, the terrible Spanish tour operator booked by the main characters is called Gonzales, which is the Latin American or Portuguese spelling, not the Spanish one (that would be González). | |
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Duolingo's Spanish course is identified by a Spanish flag and Mexico's Temple of Kukulcan. In every other course, the flag and the landmark belong to the same country, even when this country is not the birthplace of the language (e.g. the English course shows America's flag and the Statue of Liberty, and the Portuguese course shows Brazil's flag and Rio's Christ the Redeemer). The de-facto dialect used is the creator's birth Guatemalan Spanish, but the course accepts answers in others. | |
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Elena of Avalor runs on this trope. The castles, princesses and the like come from Spain, although most of the characters are brown (like in Latin America, or at least very southern Spain). Mariachis are frequently seen, but music is mostly tropical, even more similar to Dominican Republic's merengue and salsa than Mexico's ranchera. When characters speak Spanish, they do it with the neutral Mexican accent. | |
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In the YouTube viral video 4 Shocking Facts about US Healthcare (a.k.a. "I can literally fly to Spain, live in Madrid for 2 years, learn Spanish, run with the bulls, get trampled, get my hip replaced again, and fly home for less than the cost of a hip replacement in the US."), the narrator's avatar wears a mariachi suit and sombrero after he undergoes two years of "cultural acclimation" in Madrid. | |
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For Whom the Bell Tolls repeatedly describes Spanish gypsies as physically resembling Indians (American Indians, not the Indian Indians gypsies actually descend from) and holding shamanistic beliefs and rituals stereotypical of Injun Country. The version of the Spanish Civil War in the book seems to lack actual fronts and plays more like a Western set in the Indian Wars or in The Mexican Revolution, with the derailment of a train serving as the climax of the book. | |
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The Unit: In "Non-Permissive Environment", the team must escape from a version of Valencia, Spain with Chicano street art, Panama hats, coconut street vendors and ubiquitous Caribbean accents. | |
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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet take place in a region based on the Iberian peninsula, but the Fuecoco line — one of the region's Starter Mons — uses quite a bit of Mexican imagery, from the egg and nest atop Crocalor's head resembling a sombrero to Skeledirge's design making it look like it has Calacas face paint. In all fairness, neither of its fellow starters are heavily rooted in Iberian culture either — the Sprigatito line has a stage magician and masquerade motif, while the Quaxly line takes inspiration from Rio de Janeiro dancers. | |
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One of the many, many things people briefly got worked up over on Twitter was the idea that white, European-descended peoples had no business "culturally appropriating" the Spanish language from Latin American and Mestizo communities. Thankfully, enough people from all across the cultural and ideological spectrum were able to point out the laughably stupid logic behind this gripe that it disappeared rather quickly. | |
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Played straight by Blanche about her Cuban suitor in an episode of The Golden Girls: | |
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Castille in 7th Sea, with fencers, a powerful Inquisition, pirates and Armadas... and inexplicably, Ranchos and a Zorro's Expy named El Vago (whose name, by the way, translates as "The Slacker"). | |
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The crews of the Amistad (a Spanish ship registered in Cuba) and the Tecora (a Portuguese ship) speak Mexican Spanish. The two Spaniards that claim damages for the loss of the Amistad are played by a Mexican-American and a Puerto Rican actor who use their native accents. | |
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South Park: At an European summit, all representatives are old white guys in similar ties and blue suits. Except the one from Spain, who is younger, brown-skinned, and wears a khaki military uniform. The flag of "Spain" as seen from the mast pole side is dark green, like the flag of Mexico. | |
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True Blood: Season 4's Big Bad is Antonia Gavilán de Logroño, a witch that was burned by The Spanish Inquisition in 1610. She's played by Texan actress Paola Turbay and all flashback scenes are in Latin American Spanish. However all people investigated in the historical 1610 witch trials were Basque speakers. | |
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A cutaway in an episode of Family Guy has Peter Griffin reminiscing about his time as the male lead in Spanish TV soap operas. However, the setting is a typical Mexican hacienda in a semi-desert, and the culmination of the scene is Peter flying away in a sombrero-shaped UFO. | |
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Vantage Point is set in Salamanca, Spain but was shot mostly in Puebla, Mexico and it shows. The actors that can do a Castilian accent do, a few extras are dubbed over, and others ( Matthew Fox in particular) fail at it miserably. Mexican green beetle taxis, stop signs reading "ALTO" rather than "STOP", and humid-soaked buildings and tropical green mountains can be seen in the background, despite Salamanca being in the middle of a drier, colder plain. | |
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Coco: Defied. The development team flew to Mexico and did extensive research on everything native to it. From the architecture, to the music, to the food, and especially the local mannerisms in order to make the movie feel as authentic as possible. The vast majority of the cast is of Latino descent (as are the vast majority of the musicians that played for the soundtrack) and the characters use the Mexican dialect of Spanish rather than the typical version taught in American schools, paying particular attention to uniquely Latin American details like Elena's preferred weapon. | |
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In TMNT, the four ancient Aztec generals are named Mono, Gato, Aguila, and Serpiente. Why would ancient Aztec people from 1000BC have names in Spanish? Not only did the Spanish language not exist 3000 years ago (for that matter, it's debatable whether Latin did) - the Spanish people did not conquest the Aztecs till after 1521 AD, and the Aztec Empire itself got started in 1323 AD, so this is also an Anachronism Stew. | |
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Filmation's Ghostbusters' episode "The Ghost of Don Quixote" has a milder example with Spaniards constantly using Mexican slang and a villain who is a walking robber baron stereotype down to the Cantinflas moustache. Also, every Spanish character but Don Quixote has orange skin for some reason. | |
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In the 8th season of How I Met Your Mother, Ted recalls a trip he made to Spain with a fanny pack. The montage shows Ted going through a map of the correct country (albeit with all the cities misplaced and many of them misspelled; one's spot even falls in Portugal even though it is coloured differently) and in typical Toros y Flamenco places. Then, at the end of the montage, a group of Mexican mariachi show up, and Ted proudly (but obliviously) points out that he was nicknamed by the locals El ganso con la riñoneranote Not gramatically correct, as both Spaniards and Mexicans would have rather said El ganso de la riñonera. ("The doofus with the fanny pack"). So off, it has to be deliberate. Nonetheless, this scene still caused enough controversy in Hispanic countries that in international airings it was replaced with one where he travels through Mexico instead. | |
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In an episode of Frasier, Frasier Crane makes a verbal leap from the Spanish Civil War to Eva Perón, suggesting that in his mind he is conflating Spain and Argentina as the same entity, or assuming the Argentinian Perón came to power as a result of a civil war five thousand miles away in Spain. | |
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