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I am tired of hearing about the consciousness of poverty.. that Latin Americans are stuck in this endless wheel of societal mistakes... do we not remember that perhaps that the wheel originated when unwelcomed visitors came without knocking at the door? that they keep getting new visitors with promises of "development" which is really just a bunch of maquiladoras benefiting from a widespread desperation for labor?
Ok, yes no one is a complete victim, people choose at times to accept poverty, to be abused... but have we been in their shoes? or walked barefooted like them? how is it to step out of the victimization when its the only tools we are granted?
I am empowered because i was socialized in an environment that nurtured my education, my thirst for knowledge, and I am lucky.... but with that luck comes responsibility and I can't help but think that I am just being pulled between ideologies, that all I am living is in blanket generalizations... I mean is there even such a thing as "Latin America" when the experience of people in this romanticized land is so diverse?... yet I write about it, hear about it, and still speak about it as if I had claim over it... 12 years since I stepped off that land, sorta makes you loose credibility.. but we can always pretend
Ok, yes no one is a complete victim, people choose at times to accept poverty, to be abused... but have we been in their shoes? or walked barefooted like them? how is it to step out of the victimization when its the only tools we are granted?
I am empowered because i was socialized in an environment that nurtured my education, my thirst for knowledge, and I am lucky.... but with that luck comes responsibility and I can't help but think that I am just being pulled between ideologies, that all I am living is in blanket generalizations... I mean is there even such a thing as "Latin America" when the experience of people in this romanticized land is so diverse?... yet I write about it, hear about it, and still speak about it as if I had claim over it... 12 years since I stepped off that land, sorta makes you loose credibility.. but we can always pretend