“Honestly, it’s not my usual, but it’s so cute and flirty that I loved it.”
“When they break or something I’ll probably just go and buy the same pair.”
While interviewing Genesis, we started speaking about discrimination towards different ethnicities here in America. It was interesting to talk about this because we both are Latinas and live in the same city, however we experience different kind of treatments from society. Although Genesis hasn’t lived ever in Latinoamerica, she still is treated differently because of the color of her skin. It’s ironic that she speaks the language perfectly and fluently and for me it’s more difficult to express myself correctly, and she still gets discriminated because she’s does not have white skin. I truly don’t understand why is there these classes depending on the color of your skin, overtime I think about it I don’t identify myself as a white person, but society proves me wrong, it frustrates me and pisses me off to be honest.
“Indeed, the concepts of race and ethnicity are slippery, if not blurry, in everyday life (Kang and Lo 2004). As we saw in Chapter 3, the differences between national dress and ethnic dress are also slippery and frequently hegemonic (as when one of multiple forms of ethnic dress becomes hegemonic so as to represent the nation).” (Kaiser 2012, 208)
I hadn’t realized Genesis wears dark colors for a reason, I mean, I thought maybe she really liked the color, and although she does, she wears dark color to be perceived with respect and empowerment. This fact had never crossed my mind, but it makes sense, she is a very proper and serious person.
I really enjoyed interviewing Genesis, because although I live with her I never really ask these more kind of personal questions, which turned out to be really helpful to me to understand the environment we both share and live in. It made me aware, although I already am about the injustice people with a different skin color rather than white suffer. It made me reflect on how your skin color determines who you are and how you are treated, the injustice and irony of classifying humans as if we were a color palette of grayscale.
Works Cited:
Kaiser. Susan. 2012. Fashion and Cultural Studies. London: Berg.
