I agree with the quote, "Who is to say that robbing a people of its language is less violent than war?" The horrific act of war is same as oppressing a person of their individualism. When I think about the army, I think of how they are "broken" and are basically just pawns that the government can use to fight against their own human race. These two scenerios are both stripping people of their humanity, just in different ways. When people are not allowed to speak their own language, they are being deprived of where they came from and what human culture they feel they need to have. Over time, this would slowly conform them into the "Americanized" way of doing things. Whereas, the military does not allow their soldiers to have any opposing reason or thought, and when this happens, they slowly lose sight of the person they were before. Also, killing off innocent people is in the same realm as making an innocent culture lose their souls in a world where they cannot fully communicate with other people. In this way, they get lost and do not belong anywhere in the world because they are not accepted by anyone other than people who share the same struggle.
When Gloria talks about the usage of the word "nosotras," she is surprised by the mention of a female form. In present time, males call their cars and the like "she," representing their control and masculinity. When I hear this, I feel very offended. I thought we as a culture had grown and realized that women are not objects, but unfortunately, this suggests otherwise. As Dr. Cassel says in class, feminism is not about sexism against men; it is about "social equality" between sexes. This is a struggle that is still going on in countries such as Afganastan, where women must conceal their face because they are married. I just do not understand why we as females are willing to have this equality, but men cannot help but to be "superior" towards that idea and to us.
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