Playing catch up
- What exemplifies strength in your culture?
I think that education is a big strength in today's society. I've noticed that people often feel threatened by people who are educated because the tend to rise up faster in the professional world. My extended family often gives me a hard time because I am going as far as I can in my education. They tend to act threatened when I know more on a certain subject than they do.
- Is Violence ever a good idea?
I think violence is called for at times, but I do not think it is a good idea. It often complicates things and leads to more violence. The less violence that the world can have would be better.
- List the Privileges you share with McIntosh? What disadvantages do you experience?
I am very lucky to have been brought up the way I have. I have always lived a very comfortable life and I have no reason to complain about any aspect of my life. However, I being hispanic could have faced many disadvantages. My mother is white and my father is mexican. My father has faced plenty of racism in his day, while my mom has never been confronted about much regarding the color of her skin. My father works all the time, therefore when I was in high school, no one ever really saw my dad, and my mother always recieved the comment "your daughter has a great tan! is tanning her hobby?" It was interesting to see that people thought that I was white, however I just had a great tan...It wasn't until I moved to santa cruz that I was ever even approached about my race at all. Back home race was not something that my family or my friends really talked about because it never really mattered. No one really knew exactly what race I was, therefore I wasn't given a hard time about it, the subject was just never brought up. However, upon moving to santa cruz, my parents were faced with some interesting trials themselves. After dropping me off they went on their first vaction without kids in god knows how long and asked the receptionist of their hotel if she knew of any nice restaurants that they could eat at...and her reply was "I dont think you could afford anything around here" They were so appalled that they didnt know what to say. My family is well off and can afford to eat in a nice restaurant once in awhile, and the fact that the woman looked at my dad and saw a "mexican" she made an unfair judgment of him, and making an ass of herself.
- Evaluate how Satrapi's use of the form of the graphic novel effects how you recieve her narrative or point of view?
I think that Satrapi's use of pictures allows us to see things that we could not see unless pictures were present. I found it easier to sympathize with her in some situations because of the emotion that I saw in her face in some of the comics. Often when reading a regualar text, I am so concerned about finishing the book that I often don't take the time to understand the characters all that much.
- Compare Satrapi's relationship with family and nation to Moraga's relationship with her family and nations?
Satrapi's was very close to her parents and they gave her as much freedom as the could possibly give her. They even sent her away in order for her to grow up as a free woman without being oppressed by men or anyone else. Moraga had to fight for her feminist freedom on her own. She was always lower than men and did not have the support that Satrapi had from her family and nation. Upon moving, the nation that Marji ended up living in encouraged woman to free and alive.
- My creative assignment - reread Walton's third letter to his sister in the first chapter of Frankenstein. Report back whatever you would like.
I like how his last line to his sister is: "remember me to all my English friends" this is often the way I feel when I talk to some of my friends from back home. Since I have not had the easiest time making friends at UCSC, I find myself thinking about all the good times I have had with my friends back home. SOmetimes I feel that if they are no reminded of me that they will forget that I exist because I am so far away.
I think that education is a big strength in today's society. I've noticed that people often feel threatened by people who are educated because the tend to rise up faster in the professional world. My extended family often gives me a hard time because I am going as far as I can in my education. They tend to act threatened when I know more on a certain subject than they do.
- Is Violence ever a good idea?
I think violence is called for at times, but I do not think it is a good idea. It often complicates things and leads to more violence. The less violence that the world can have would be better.
- List the Privileges you share with McIntosh? What disadvantages do you experience?
I am very lucky to have been brought up the way I have. I have always lived a very comfortable life and I have no reason to complain about any aspect of my life. However, I being hispanic could have faced many disadvantages. My mother is white and my father is mexican. My father has faced plenty of racism in his day, while my mom has never been confronted about much regarding the color of her skin. My father works all the time, therefore when I was in high school, no one ever really saw my dad, and my mother always recieved the comment "your daughter has a great tan! is tanning her hobby?" It was interesting to see that people thought that I was white, however I just had a great tan...It wasn't until I moved to santa cruz that I was ever even approached about my race at all. Back home race was not something that my family or my friends really talked about because it never really mattered. No one really knew exactly what race I was, therefore I wasn't given a hard time about it, the subject was just never brought up. However, upon moving to santa cruz, my parents were faced with some interesting trials themselves. After dropping me off they went on their first vaction without kids in god knows how long and asked the receptionist of their hotel if she knew of any nice restaurants that they could eat at...and her reply was "I dont think you could afford anything around here" They were so appalled that they didnt know what to say. My family is well off and can afford to eat in a nice restaurant once in awhile, and the fact that the woman looked at my dad and saw a "mexican" she made an unfair judgment of him, and making an ass of herself.
- Evaluate how Satrapi's use of the form of the graphic novel effects how you recieve her narrative or point of view?
I think that Satrapi's use of pictures allows us to see things that we could not see unless pictures were present. I found it easier to sympathize with her in some situations because of the emotion that I saw in her face in some of the comics. Often when reading a regualar text, I am so concerned about finishing the book that I often don't take the time to understand the characters all that much.
- Compare Satrapi's relationship with family and nation to Moraga's relationship with her family and nations?
Satrapi's was very close to her parents and they gave her as much freedom as the could possibly give her. They even sent her away in order for her to grow up as a free woman without being oppressed by men or anyone else. Moraga had to fight for her feminist freedom on her own. She was always lower than men and did not have the support that Satrapi had from her family and nation. Upon moving, the nation that Marji ended up living in encouraged woman to free and alive.
- My creative assignment - reread Walton's third letter to his sister in the first chapter of Frankenstein. Report back whatever you would like.
I like how his last line to his sister is: "remember me to all my English friends" this is often the way I feel when I talk to some of my friends from back home. Since I have not had the easiest time making friends at UCSC, I find myself thinking about all the good times I have had with my friends back home. SOmetimes I feel that if they are no reminded of me that they will forget that I exist because I am so far away.
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