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The Importance of a conscious collective identity Do traditions die out? In modern day America , traditions don't die. People hold on to the traditions because they find their identity within them. How do traditions relate to the culture within Latin America? Rules. In Latin America, people follow the rules when they think that they should because the laws are human made, they can be treated differently by human beings. In class , Prof. Tico gave us an example about this, we talked about how he doesn't understand why the American people will sit and wait at the crosswalk until the light turns “ Green for Go”, when there aren't any cars coming in our way. This is a really interesting concept and idea because quite honestly, I don't …show more content…

I enjoyed the movie very much. I was reminded of the movie “Stand By Me” that was based off of the novella “The Body” by Stephen King. I know that they had completely different characters as well as a completely different plot, but I think that many of the same themes were throughout. In “Stand by Me”, there is a group of young boys that go on a trip to find this dead body , and instead they end up finding themselves. However, In Motorcycle Diaries , the two men, Ernesto and his friend Alberto grew not only as friends, but also as men after this expedition. This trip was more than Ernesto simply becoming a man, but it shaped the man that he was going to be. He was able to interact with the real day to day people of latin America from Argentina to Amazon River Basin. He just simply wanted the people of “Latin America" to be more united. Which tied into the relationship of the Indians to the rest of the general population from within the social hierarchal …show more content…

The students were not sampling turning in their individuality was I thought that they were, they were allowing themselves to take on another role within the society. The collectivity of the rebellion also aided the students as being apart of something, It gave the students something that they would not have found. They were still individual people, but now they were individual people within something greater, and they loved it. “The students gloried in their sudden collective existence. A sense of euphoria took hold. ‘We had to participate in the student movement,’ recalls Margarita Suzan, a student who had never participated before. ‘There wasn’t even any alternative. You simply had to do it…What a complete understanding there was among the students! What an honest way to treat one another! What a loss of individualisms and accommodating attitudes…The CNH was a completely organic thing! We gave each other a hand. “

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