Wednesday, October 22, 2003
This weekend I wrote 2 and a half papers, and saw Subterra with Lewis. (the first Chilean big budget film, they say).
This week, I´m trying to write 3 more (well, I had to scrap the half), with the goal or getting away, somewhere away. Buenos Aires away? maybe.
In the meantime, Monday we listened to what felt like the most wrong headed lecture EVER in Psychology. The ayudante (Tf, TA) started listing ways in which Latin America was different from the U.S. and (mostly) Europe. These included: inequality between people in power and those being governed, inequality in gender relations, wars, people starving.
As in, Europe has all of these things, and Latin America doesn´t. His primary proof? Conditions during the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. The poor, downtrodden, proletariate, bound to the evil mechanistic system, was starving in the street, landless and penniless. Meanwhile, in Latin America (today) everything is all lucky ducky! Yes, there are favelas in Brazil, but they aren´t as bad. No famine here. Plenty of land to go around. We´re pacific- theres only been one real war (at which point people started guessing and at least 20 wars- conflicts-rebellions were named). The government is caring- paternalistic! Fatherly.
As for gender relations, machismo only exists because men are weak at heart. This sounds like an apologetic to me...and it was scary when this one girl was totally agreeing with him (women are powerful, so they try to be more feminine, and men are vulnerable so they try to be more masculine...). We´re hoping he´s not the one grading the 16 page paper we proceeded to turn in, esssentially criticizing gender relations in Latin America...
got photos developed! and in exchange, got a free enlargement, though I´m not sure why:-)
This week, I´m trying to write 3 more (well, I had to scrap the half), with the goal or getting away, somewhere away. Buenos Aires away? maybe.
In the meantime, Monday we listened to what felt like the most wrong headed lecture EVER in Psychology. The ayudante (Tf, TA) started listing ways in which Latin America was different from the U.S. and (mostly) Europe. These included: inequality between people in power and those being governed, inequality in gender relations, wars, people starving.
As in, Europe has all of these things, and Latin America doesn´t. His primary proof? Conditions during the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. The poor, downtrodden, proletariate, bound to the evil mechanistic system, was starving in the street, landless and penniless. Meanwhile, in Latin America (today) everything is all lucky ducky! Yes, there are favelas in Brazil, but they aren´t as bad. No famine here. Plenty of land to go around. We´re pacific- theres only been one real war (at which point people started guessing and at least 20 wars- conflicts-rebellions were named). The government is caring- paternalistic! Fatherly.
As for gender relations, machismo only exists because men are weak at heart. This sounds like an apologetic to me...and it was scary when this one girl was totally agreeing with him (women are powerful, so they try to be more feminine, and men are vulnerable so they try to be more masculine...). We´re hoping he´s not the one grading the 16 page paper we proceeded to turn in, esssentially criticizing gender relations in Latin America...
got photos developed! and in exchange, got a free enlargement, though I´m not sure why:-)
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