Reading Response #5

This article is not one that I usually find of interest because it does not follow what I typically gravitate toward but there were aspects that I found interesting about what was being said. I think this is mostly due to me being in a position where I am not very knowledgeable about the subject so I was given new knowledge and theories that are current in culture and society to be applied. I was extremely interested in the idea of the other and how the Latin American Culture in America is essentially always seen and taken apart as different than the normal no matter what the context is. After reading this I realized how true it is even though I knew that, I didn’t quite put it on a scale of how almost everything is considered that way. Through almost the entirety of this article I kept thinking about how it mentioned the view and general acceptance or embrace of the Latin American culture in American through the use and sources of mass media and younger societal outlets but I couldn’t help but think that art, especially video art should be included in the but it is still seen as a minority work. I just think that the works that were talked about in this article were trying to show a huge level of exploitation about society and culture but something to me just seemed different about what they were doing or how they were doing it when compared to other video works that attempt the same or similar styles of exploitation in their work

Do you think that there is a component that makes this work different because of how Latin American culture is viewed in our society? Especially in comparison to other cultures that face similar struggles?