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The young male I chose for this interview is from Lima Peru. He is a student and an athlete here at SIUe. He came to SIUe to play sports, more specifically football or as we call it here in the United States, soccer. He is enjoying it quite a lot. This student came to the United States in 2013 and feels that each country has something different to offer.

In the movie "The Mission", there is a village of Indians in Africa who are destine to be sold into slavery, but a few Jesuits are trying to stop them. To try to make the slave traders, and representatives for the Spanish to change their thoughts, the Jesuits had a young Guaraní boy sing. His singing was truly wonderful but a Spanish states man, and plantation owner named Don Cabeza had a much more harsh attitude towards the boy. Cabeza said, "The Guaraní are jungle creatures with human voices." (Don Cabeza, The Mission). As sad as it may be Cabeza's attitude was indicative on how many felt about the natives.

Kincaid describes the reactions of the native people as tourists walk by; being a native Antiguan herself, her description of their behaviour is probably accurate. The justification she provides for their behaviour is sound. Most areas like Antigua depend on the funds that tourism brings in. While whatever luxury can be provided is given to the tourists, it is the native people who see the daily trials and sufferings. Understandably, even though their income comes from the tourists they so despise, the native population is trapped in the never-ending cycle of poverty. Unable to escape their own situations, the natives find solace in mocking tourists for their cluelessness or awkwardness. Kincaid shows this most effectively when she says, “we Antiguans, for I am one, have a great sense of things, and the more meaningful the thing, the more meaningless we make it” (113). She immediately

Peru is located in western South America and it shares borders with Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador and the South Pacific Ocean. Peru is about 1.28 million square kilometers. There are three major regions in Peru: a narrow coastal belt, the wide Andean mountains and the Amazon Basin. The coast is mostly a desert, but contains Peru's major cities. The Andes has two main ranges - Cordillera Occidental and Oriental. Oriental includes Peru's highest mountain called Huascaran, it a peaks out at 22,200ft. On the east side is the Amazon Basin, a region of tropical lowland, the water there is carried out by the Maranon and Ucayali rivers.

The Colombian culture is formed from the inheritance of the indigenous peoples present in the territory since ancient times, the Spanish traditions adopted during the colonial period and the African Customs incorporated by the slaves that led the conquistadors. This mixture of cultures constitutes a society with traits common to the rest of Latin American countries but, at the same time, very different also. Indeed, even within Colombia's own territory there are many differences between regions and others. Geographic diversity-can be found from tropical beaches to mountains of more than 5,000 meters in height with perpetual snows-and the natural isolation of some areas has led to this diversity. Some of the most important cultural groups according to their location are the so-called cops, located in the Altiplano Cundiboyacense; the countries, settled in Antioquia; The foresters, Settlers of the eastern plains; the Vallunos, settled in the area of Valle del Cauca; the coastal, inhabitants of the Caribbean coast, and the Santander, residents of the departments of Santander and Norte de Santander. All these groups are characterized by showing great cultural differences among themselves, which makes Colombia a fascinating country to know and enter into the day to day of its inhabitants.

In The Jungle by Uptown Sinclair, the immigrants were exploited to a point of slavery. They were not treated with care, and were considered a number and not a person. The company did not care whether or not how the person did their job, or how much danger the person in. As long as the job was done on time, and no money was wasted. At some points the men would not be able to work. Some men had little to no feeling in their hands due to cuts, and bruises. Uptown Sinclair showed this by saying, “The hands of these men would be criss-crossed with cuts, until you could no longer pretend to count them or to trace them.”-chapter 8 Sinclair. No person should have to go through all the pain and suffering these men had. It is hard for a person to make

“In twentieth-century America the history of poverty begins with most working people living on the edge of destitution, periodically short of food, fuel, clothing, and shelter” (Poverty in 20th Century America). Poverty possesses the ability to completely degrade a person, as well as a family, but it can also make that person and family stronger. In The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, a family of immigrants has to live in severe poverty in Packingtown, a suburb of Chicago. The poverty degrades the family numerous times, and even brings them close to death. Originally the family has each other to fall back on, but eventually members of the family must face numerous struggles on their own, including “hoboing it” and becoming a prostitute. The

Have you ever experienced physical or mental adulation? In the book The Jungle each significant character experiences a certain hardship that later changes their characterization. The author, Upton Sinclair gives many examples of these afflictions, which are caused by their working conditions. The three most prominent characters Jurgis, Ona, and Marija have experienced different types of tribulation. They are pushed to work like slaves with no leniency, which exacerbates their physical and mental beings.

Despite my limited Spanish and her limited English, our conversation continued in Spanish for more than an hour. Jessica, her name I later found out, had lived in Peru her whole life and was on her way to Cusco. With the occasional pause and an intermittent language lesson or two, we covered everything from her career, my interests, her son sitting beside us, and our travel aspirations. It wasn’t until the plane began its descent that we noticed that the once barren landscape was now scattered with houses and woven by roads.

I like your comparison and contrasting analysis between the Mesoamerican, Peruvian and Greek civilizations. I agreed when you mentioned about how new society influence by Greek’s democracy. For my point of view, this form of government by far the most influential significant contribution of ancient civilizations. Religiously, they are similar, both worshipped unnatural and natural being. Moreover, the centrality of most ancient civilization is their religion and beliefs, from that, it was the way how they grew their society.

Daniel L. Everett’s ethnography, Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle, writes about experiences and life he faced during the time living among the Piraha. Everett, is a linguist who’s whole mission during his stay with the Piraha’s was to not only learn their language, but to convert them to Christianity. This however never happened, Everett actually ends up giving up his faith for the name of science and language. His novel is a page turner, it make the reader to want to keep reading it until the very end. The way Everett writes just draws people in, the way he chooses his words and the structure of the sentences makes one feels like that they are with him.

The never ending controversy of capitalism, and it’s effects on society; a sentence that largely sums up the contents of The Jungle. The book greatly details how politics and capitalism can corrupt each other and make the system biased. The book, while written over one hundred years ago, contains issues that are still prevalent in today’s societies. However, the book dropped off at the end when it turned from a heart-wrenching story of an immigrant’s struggle in society, into an ad campaign for the socialist party. The Jungle truly is a wonderful story that will make a person reconsider the structure of American society, but fails miserably at concluding that story in the final chapters.

Culture is the aquired knowledge that people use to interpret, experience, and generate social behavior.

Overall, this book was a great read and an amazing introduction into a new world unknown to us as Americans. The Andean culture is one everyone can learn from. In the book, the Bolin provides vivid detail about the community of the Chillihuani people who live in the Andes. Bolin goes into detail about the people and their child rearing ways from childbirth to adolescence how they instill high moral values in the children to foster a culture of respect. In the book, Bolin makes mention of different families and incidences that stand out in stark contrast to the mainstream American community.

In John Wickham’s “Fellow Travelers”, three travelers come across difficulties when trying to travel from Barbados to Trinidad. The main character described as the chinless man battles control throughout the story. The chinless man, described as being bold and aggressive, is upset with the situation he has found himself in. His journey to Trinidad is delayed because of a faulty ticket. The disgruntled, chinless man dissatisfied storms up to the woman behind the counter and demands her to solve his problem. The chinless man “[speaks] with his hands as fluently as with his tongue and what eloquence he achieve[s] is due to his gesturing fingers and arms as to the validity of the particular he [is] presenting to the girl behind the counter” (Wickham 247). This quote illustrates that from the beginning, the chinless man feels powerless. He does not try to