The Diversity of Human Experience
For
this specific goal I have chosen to
use my research
essay. I feel that it is the most compatible out of all my works. My research
papers is titled Feliz Ano Nuevo, Cabrones and I chose it because I think it
says a lot about the topic. The title is words of patience having been angered
and of neutrality
taking up arms and becoming control. The topic being the Zapatistas and The
Zapatista National Liberation Army it deals with a people and their struggles.
It involves all of the components that fall under the category of The Diversity
of Human Experience. It deals with differences in ethnic and
cultural perspectives, class, race, gender, sexual orientation, and
ability.
The
reason for choosing this topic and writing about the Zapatistas was simple. I
merely wanted to learn more about them and at the same time make their cause and
actions more aware to another person. I wanted to understand them and judge them
for who they are and what they do, whether it was bad or good I would decide. I
did not just simply want to know they exist and that they
are out there I needed to be convinced that they have a right to be who
they are and in
return I would join their way of seeing and their way
of being. That may sound absurd but I am not talking about doing it in a
physical way but in a spiritual way.
As it turned out I did condone their actions
and I became an advocate mentally spiritually and socially, whether I become a
Zapatista physically I cannot know but if it happens it happens. But I now
believe more strongly in preservation our living ancestry lines thorough
indigenous people, and in return that leads me to my other believe. That is that
the there are places in Mexico where industrialism should not place a step. If
the indigenous tribes are kept alive in tact with their traditions, languages,
and way of life than parts of the land where they thrive should be also. That is
two problems solved at once.
The
research paper illustrates gaining understanding into the differences of ethnic
peoples and of their cultures. It makes me understand that the differences are
not differences at all, the differences are only the word, not the reality. They
word is the only difference in this world. In its roots and foundations the
struggle is the same for all as of the Zapatistas. The problem is only that
there are many cultural perspectives existing on the same timeline, and
the times may not be in order. Although I want it to be and hope that it will
be, my research has taught me that there might not ever be a time when the two
sides will see as one. For they are both struggling for survival and no one
wants to stop being. If the Zapatistas do not become industrialized than they
will cease to exist, and if modern Mexico does not keep on advancing in
technology in the future it will most likely become inferior in its truest
sense. If there will ever be an understanding and a true live together I promise
you it will be because of religious intervention
and if not its truest form which is spiritualism. That is simply
believing in something other than the physical.