The Americas Movie Analysis

A. Watching this movie was very eye opening. I knew it was bad in Mexico but never like that. I learned a lot of new things that I never knew prior to the movie. The first term I linked the movie to would be Absolute poverty, the condition of having too little income to buy the necessities, food, shelter, clothing, health care. The people would have very little money if any and wouldn’t have anywhere to work at. It was sad seeing them get caught by boarder control or the police for trying to sneak over the border. If you look at it you will see that it was their only choice. They are doing what any other human would do if they were in that situation. It’s human nature to want better for yourself. Half the people that tried sneaking over the …show more content…
There are a lot of things we do similar to Mexicans but there is also a ton of things that we do completely from Mexicans as well. Our norms and their norms are a lot different. From the way we live, work and even look is completely different from each other. When they take a chance for a better life and come over to America there are a lot of things they need to learn beforehand. The movie showed us a couple of ways they would have to adapt in order to fit in. A good term to match this up with would be Conformity. Going along with the norms or behaviors of a group. When the people would pack a bag to come to the United States they would bring water, fish, crackers but one thing that stuck out to me was hair gel. I wondered for a second about why they would need to have hair gel but then it all hit me. When they finally made it upstate in Texas they would need to look clean cut and fresh like most Americans so that they would fit in and not look like an illegal alien from another country. It’s actually smart if you thing about it. They have to adapt and live up to our standards so they will fit in. That is why I connected it to that term because if they come to the USA they need to learn how to live like an American and adapt to our standard of living. They really have to conform quickly and that is hard to do coming from a beat down place like Mexico and coming to one of the nicest countries in the world. It takes patients and a little bit of smarts to do. …show more content…
A lot of people come to the United States to make money for their friends and family back home. The main goal is always to make money and feed the family. A term that describes this is Global economy, an economy in which the economic life and health of one nation depends on what happens in other nations. More than 30% off all the income in Mexico come from the Unites states. That is crazy to think about. Thirty percent of the money they have is our money that illegal aliens sent home for them. To me that is not right they should not be able to do this. We should tighten up our border control and make them enter the Unites States legally like they should have to. That is hurting us by giving Mexico 30% of all the money they have we need all the money we can get. We need to keep the money in the US and rebuild our economy not tear it down. If people did not send Mexico money from the United States they would really be hurting. That is not our responsibility to keep their nation up and running. Its one thing if they were doing it legally. Earning the money and paying taxes on it and then bringing it back to Mexico. But they are doing it all illegally and that is what is wrong. We need to crack down on this is the future and make sure our money isn’t leaving the country with illegal aliens. This is something that I learned from the movie that I never known before and it makes me kind of mad knowing that. That needs to be changed in the future and I hope they USA acts against