There are many identity terms to describe people from all over the world, and most of these terms to some extend are rude or racist in a way. We come to a country to have opportunities and equal rights but is that really what we are getting ?.
After reading “Identity terms” I can cay that the terms/ category that best describes me in certain is “latino, latin america,latino…”. I am Latina/Hispanic woman and it is not easy being of a Hispanic background becuase people are easy to judge, especially in the U.S, in most cases as soon as someone sees a Hispanic/ latino the question of this person being legal or not rises. I love being Hispanic/Latina but people most of the time mistake where are we from for other latin countries which to some point is frustrating because it is not said in a polite way. For example my family is from Ecuador and most of the time I get mistaken for being Mexican and my friend who is Mexican is told that she looks Ecuadorian. Being told I look Mexican does not really bother me what bothers me is how some express themselves towards these countries. For example some say “all Mexican girls look the same” or Ecuadorian people and Mexican people are the same thing”. Just because we are Hispanic does not mean we are all the same, look the same, do the same. Like I mentioned every country is unique.
There are two theories that really caught my attention and interest in the article, “Feminist philosophy of language”. The first one is invisibility of women, this one stood out to me because in many cases the use of language does make it seem that men are superior than women, or even that they have accomplished more when in reality women have accomplished great thing if not more than man but the way things are said does not always benefit women. The second theory that stood out to me was sex marketing. Sex marketing stood out to me because it connects back to making women invisible and men superior, but in this case it goes a little beyond that, the example that Is used is great because it says that if someone wants to write a book review is it necessary to know, the gender and for most is no but if we make gender such a priority when it comes to these cases, if it was a man who wrote the book then the review would be great, not because the book was great but because I man wrote It, meanwhile if it were a woman then the review might not be great although the book might have been amazing.
