Hello sisterfriends. I hope that you have enjoyed this Resurrection Day. The Elian Gonzalez situation has been on my mind for a few weeks now. As a Spanish major, I am learning alot about the various dictatorship that existed in Latin America and currently continue. As much as I want to think the best of my people I am not sure that we will be totally proactive. I don't think that it will be possible because many of us still sit and are waiting for the 40 acres and a mule, others choose to think that the last 400+ years never existed. All of us will have a reaction when one of us has been wrong but it may just stop at that.
Do not be fooled, although the Latin American people seem to have that proactive spirit, there are many cultures who have been influenced by Europeans and choose to sweep things under the rug. I recently watched a foreign language film entitled The Official Story which addresses this issue. From my conversations with various professors I have been told that one of the many problems that L. America has is that the affluent do not reinvst their money into the communities. It is as if they want to horde it, so the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. That is the one think about our people that is different, we have that entrepeneurial (sp?) spirit. I can go on and on about this because this is such an exciting topic for me. I hope that this discussion will continue. God Bless
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