Thursday, January 31, 2013

Allie Wagner-So Mexicans are Taking Jobs from Americans-#5-Blog#1

Jimmy Santiago Baca's poem "So Mexicans are Taking Jobs from Americans" traduces the morality and common sense of America. This poem suggests though Americans blame Mexicans for taking jobs away from the lower class, wealthy Americans diminish the little window of opportunity to survive in a corporate owned society. In other words, the lower class is trying to survive when they're already dead.
"I see small white farmers selling out to clean-suited farmers living in New York, who've never been on a farm." This shows that while wealthy Americans blame Mexicans for causing the loss of amount of jobs available causing poverty amongst the nation, but the corporations putting small businesses out creates more jobless Americans. It suggests that the small chance of survival small business Americans thought they had was already gone because of wealthy Americans buying out everything.
"Below that cool green sea of money millions and millions of people fight to live" connected with my previous quote suggests that through the peacefulness the wealthy can easily be comfortable day to day, the rest of America is struggling to survive. The wealthy blame Mexicans for taking jobs, when they are taking jobs away from the needy to benefit themselves.
"The children are dead alraedy. We are killing them." This quote invokes a lot of hypocracy among America. It suggests that America may do what they can to help the new generation survive poverty to have something, when they're chance of survival is already gone. The wealthy America takes everything from the ones in the dark searching for their dreams.

2 comments:

  1. When I was reading the story I just saw the more simple view: Americans blaming them for taking the jobs away from them. Your explanation makes more sense; the wealthy are buying the smaller businesses casing an unbalance with people losing their job. Also, the wealthy are the ones who influence people to think that the Mexicans are taking the jobs away because they don’t want lower class Americans to see the truth;them getting more opportunities to succeed.

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  2. When I read the poem I also noticed that the real problem was not about Mexicans or Americans. The problem is that the lower class has little opportunity.

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