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El Caribe Gris

 What were the difficulties you encountered when reading Caribe Gris?

When reading Caribe Gris it was difficult to coherently understand what the text was about. When reading the excerpt from the doc I wasn't able to easily differentiate between what were the author's words and what wasn't. I wasn't able to decipher what was what based on word choice because the english translation made everything weird for lack of a better term.
Real photo of me very confused reading

How did you deal with those difficulties?

I did a couple of things to help me understand the text better. Instead of reading from the document, I opened up the web article instead. The web article was formated in a way that it was easier to see who was saying what. I also bounced back and forth between English and Spanish whenever I was getting confused. My internet browser has an auto-translate feature on it so the article was translated from Spanish to English right on the page. Some phrases or words in Spanish have no direct translation in English, making computer-generated translation harder to decipher. Thankfully, I'm hispanic and able to read some spanish which helped immensely with understanding the main idea of the text.

Did your understanding of the main idea change?

My understanding of the main idea didn't change but the depth of the main idea was altered. The main idea takeaway that I had simply needed to be broadened to be applied in a more universal sense. My main idea was that Christopher Columbus was able to shape the ideas and prejudices one has towards a certain people for many years to come, but I understand now that the main idea is that history is written by those that were more successful, and thus history can be biased and prejudiced which can affect how we see certain events, behaviors, or ideas.

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  1. Camille LeconteOctober 30, 2020 at 5:15 AM

    Hey Daniela, I myself had so much issues trying to write this post. It's interesting to see how you worked it out. Your assessment of the article is very thorough and helps me understand the article better as well.

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