Resumen de Mexico and swine flu: an imaginary line between fear and discrimination
After a sudden outbreak of Swine flu appeared in last weeks, huge attention of the globe has been brought to Mexico wherein the virus originally emerged. As a result of this, panic to a potential pandemic struck to public opinion in the World. In an immediate way followed to a supposed death of 150 persons, the government of Argentina, China, Peru and Cuba ordered to their airport to suspend the flights coming from Mexico. Visually, not only paranoia get settled in popular wisdom, but also news papers disseminate once and once again in their different unedited editions columns based on troublesome effects of this virus reinforcing the panic-flight behavior in readers. Our findings back that in contexts of uncertainness people recur to stereotypes and discriminative practices to alleviate the anxiety that is present in the core of society. Ethnocentrism is the appropriate term to denote our conduct whenever the horizon is unclear
