I thought that the video that we watched in class was very interesting. It was more detailed than reading excerpts that we have been discussing in class. She told her story very clear and she also touched on a lot of topics that I actually talked about in my first short paper. During the video I was sort of comparing my first short paper and her story. In both of them stereotypes were talked about. In my short paper I talked about how after 9/11 a lot of people would start to associate middle eastern people with bombs or terrorist. Even a picture and they would assume things of this nature and this relates directly back to the video we say in class today. She was talking about how that even still happens today with the example of a book that had the title of American Psychopaths I believe. With this title she was talking about how this would actually make some people think that Americans are actually all psychopaths when they really are not. Another example that we discussed in class and that was in the video is the idea of how many TV commercial may portray Africa as a poor continent when in reality there is really a rich side to Africa that is almost never shown on TV or around social media. All of these examples can relate to each other and it is mostly what I was thinking about when I watched this video in class. The general idea of all these stereo types that are falsely created and in reality do not prove anything about any culture, countries, continents or anything like that. In the video she says that people even said that Africa was a country instead of a continent which is something I find very sad.This shows that the people that are creating the stereotypes in the first have no knowledge whatsoever about the continent of Africa. Overall, this was how I felt about the video we watched in class and how it connected to many other experiences in my life, and other ideas discussed in class.

Dutiful Hijas Opinions

This text and pretty much everything we have read in class has to do with feminism in a way. This text was actually more interesting to me since it had to do with Hispanic traditions and I am Hispanic myself. I never knew that all of this was going on and that it was this intense. Yes, the daughter is supposed to have some responsibility to help. I feel as if though in this passage what is going on is too much dependency on the daughters when the males are perfectly capable of  having some dependency put on them as well. If the men are making money wouldn't that mean that they should help support their spouse and daughters to help them have a better future. It would be more effective this way if everyone contributed instead of everything just being put on the daughters. This is only my opinion, but I feel like most people would agree with me. This shows how the traditions in America differ from traditions in other places. It is just not fair. In this article they say suffering will make a good woman out of you but I believe this is not true. I think this will just stress women out more and it is not fair and should be stopped. Everyone should have equal rights no matter where they are. There is just no reason to put all the responsibility on women. At the end of this excerpt I feel like her mother taught her all of the right lessons on how to be a strong women and sort of move away from feminism in a way but still hold those values. She will probably still have those feminine values but not let anyone take advantage of her and put all of the dependency on her. She learned about power and authority.