Journal #4

I was reading the Auto-ethnography Family in Foreign Spaces: Leaving Home to Find Home.  It was about a college student living in Mexico for three months as an English teacher of a small town. Where everybody knows all the towns, all the neighbors are related family, or each other know the name of the family from different block aways from one to another. Everybody knows what number of members are the family per home. She was describing how stereotypes are powerful in our society she mention “If we recognize that the people of Mexico, and all people whose other identities stand  in juxtaposition  to U.S. citizens’ identity, are equal to us and a part of our family, our social, political and economic structure would not be possible”. I believe the same like her, all people are equal it doesn’t matter where they born. Countries are making limitations in our minds that other countries are better than the other ones. I believe people are forgetting equal human being are others who country is not America. American U.S. citizens are able to visit any country in America, in contrast with them. For citizens from another country expect Europe are not easy to come here the USA. It is a lot of money to spend for plane ticket. Also, the emigrations paper work, it a lot of money just to have access to enter a wealthy country. I like the article the also mention how is the live in “Buena Vista, there are no washing machines or dryers, people hand wash their clothes in front of their houses and hand them up to dry outside. The whole town knows what color your underwear is and there is no shame in this”.  She was saying are not secret in whole town, everybody know each other well, even the neighbor know what if your favorite color in underwear. She was explaining how different  is life in the U.S.  everything has to be private no one has to anything about you, nobody cares about each other. In U.S. communities nobody know even the name of your next neighbor.

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