The tortilla slap challenge has generated millions of views on TikTok. Critics say the activity is offensive and disrespectful.
To millions, the videos of people slapping each other in the face with tortillas are hilarious.
"OMG I haven't laughed this hard in a long time," a person commented on one tortilla slap challenge TikTok video with 5.9 million views and 107,000 comments.Her family made tortillas in Phoenix for 60 years. Now, she's a Hall of Famer To critics of the challenge, using the tortilla to slap someone is another cringe-worthy example of how Mexican food, culture and people are often dismissed as disposable.
The U.S.-Mexico border is sometimes referred to as the "tortilla curtain" a reference to the cultural, political and immigration barrier between the United States and Latin America.right-wing politicians"If those environments did not exist, maybe people could laugh it off," said Roberto Rodriguez. He is a former Mexican American studies professor at the University of Arizona and scholar of ancient corn now living in Mexico.
"They relegated the corn to pigs and cows, so they didn't see it as fit for human beings," Rodriguez said.Mexican Americans growing up in the Southwest were ridiculed at school for eating tortillas, said Vanessa Fonseca-Chavez, an English professor at Arizona State University who grew up in New Mexico.
But the more he watched the tortilla slap challenge videos, and the more he thought about the tortilla's cultural and historical importance, the less funny to him the videos became.The tortilla dates back 6,000 years to pre-conquest times in Mexico, Martinez said. It was made from ground corn flattened into a disk then baked on a comal over a wood fire. Later, tortillas were made from flour, mostly in northern Mexico, after Spaniards brought wheat to the Americas.
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