by Franz Fanon 1-Define Manichaean thinking in your own words. Based on this text, explore ways in which Manichaean thinking expresses itself in relation to race (pp117), religion (pp118), and economics (pp119). Manichaean thinking is when the world is divided clearly into two, good and evil, black and white. No grey, no in the middle, just two sides that are absolute opposites. Colonizers and the colonized are two such sides where one is right and one is wrong. In “The Wretched of the Earth,” Fanon describes the colonial world as a Manichaean world, with the colonist making the colonized the evil of the two. In this scenario the colonized is…

Image: Picture of me in a garden in Santiago, Chile How has the journey’s immersion shaped your self-image as a learning traveler? This trip made me think more deeply on what it means to be a learning traveler and how important it actually is to educate yourself and I’m glad that our class put in so much time and effort to read and learn about Chile before our trip. I thought I was a more aware, and conscientious because of it. Can you describe an aspect of globalization you witnessed during your travel? Chile has the stablest economy in Latin America and it is largely due to their globalization. They…

Image: taken by me of the city Santiago, in Chile. After my time in Chile, I wrote a small poem that reflected on some of the intense and important thoughts and feelings I had during the trip. “The queasiness in my stomach, the numbness in my toes, it barely registers in my awe-addled mind. I’ve been in high places before, felt the blood pool and pulse in my face, while the tiny movie screen in my head played a slow-mo clip of the ground crumbling under my feet and my body following after, but for once the screen is black, and I lean so far over the edge my toes…

This week in global we read “Pastoral,” “X,” “Atacama V,” “Atacama VI,” Atacama VIII,” “XXXVIII,” “No!,” and “Our Father,” by Raúl Zurita. Raúl Zurita was arrested, detained, and tortured during the Pinochet coup. His poetry thereafter reflected his beliefs on the Pinochet dictatorship and attempted to communicate the violence and atrocities that were committed against the Chilean people. He also wrote with a greater appreciation for the Chile that he loved, in “Pastoral” he writes all about Chile’s desert. Personally, I have always associated the word “pastoral,” with farms and agriculture. However, Raúl Zurita’s “Pastoral” talks about the desert, “Chile is a desert all over.” I thought there were contrasting…