When I read the Los Vendidos play by Luis Valdez, my poor reading comprehension led to me completely missing a small but important detail near the end. Namely, the fact that Honest Sancho is a robot. “SANCHO starts where he is, frozen to his spot,” (p. 290). Without knowing that fact, I was under the impression that Secretary Jimenez was stupid enough to think that robots were real. While I still find her to be an idiot who was fooled by the humans pretending to be robots, the knowledge that actual robots exist in the setting and can convincingly pass off as humans lets me exercise more willing suspension of disbelief as to her being fooled. This fact doesn’t have much to do with the racial themes and political message of the play, but I suppose I can connect it to our class discussion. When we talked about how every character is a sellout in some capacity, Honest Sancho cannot really be a sellout if he has no actual personality or motives beyond what he is programmed to do. He is a tool for the real sellouts to make a profit. Speaking of which, the sellouts who pretend to be robots do a convincing job of playing up Mexican stereotypes to portray their respective models. Admittedly, some of the caricatures they depicted were lost on me due to my own ignorance of racial stereotypes, but I was aware of enough of them to get the gist of what they were doing. Discussion question: How culpable can they be for the perpetuation of these Mexican stereotypes, considering that they are preying on the racism of a society that will continue to believe in such stereotypes regardless of what they do or don’t do? If nothing else, the Secretary seems adamant to stubbornly hold onto her Anglocentric lifestyle. “My name is Miss JIM-enez. Don’t you speak English? What’s wrong with you?” (p. 282).