My family immigrated to America the year I was born. With origins from an economically challenged country, it is my aspiration to return to my parent’s homeland, share my knowledge earned from college, and help develop international business relationships between Mexico and the United States. Mexico is a major trading partner of the United States and is attempting to enter the global economy. I would like to be a major player in making this partnership successful. I am particularly interested in NAFTA and Mexico’s environmental protection needs and efforts. I feel that African Americans and Hispanics have suffer all the oppression of the past and the racism.
There are many divisions in our world, but the one that has the most impact is the color of our skin. It can even be used to classify you as a minority; most of the time you can even say it provides you with a disadvantage. If we work together instead of fighting each other this can be done.
What exactly defines race or a racial group? A racial group is defined as a group that is socially distinguished on the basis of its unique physical characteristics, such as your color of skin. Race in Racial Formation was defined as something essentialist that has always been viewed as something fixed or concrete, meaning it doesn’t change, or as a mere illusion, meaning it does not exist and that we have created it as an excuse of our color blindness. It is fitted into categories as facts of life creating racial formation which is a socio historical process in which racial categories are created, inhabited, transformed, or destroyed. For example giving up blackness to adapt to what Dyer classified as normal in White Privilege racial imaginary has created categories which lead to stereotyping based on racial difference due to the idea that whites are “normal” or “human”.
Once I earn my degree in international business, I aspire to be like my role model, Linda Chavez-Thompson, the AFL-CIO vice president and labor activist. In this capacity, she served as a bridge between the labor movement and minorities. She is known as a master for interweaving the Latino and African American culture with American culture. I, like her, want to further Hispanic and African American causes in the field of business. She had to work hard to gain the respect of her colleagues, because she is a Hispanic woman in a white male dominated business world. I am sure I will encounter much of the same opposition. She is also very active politically in the Latino and African American communities which I admire. She serves on the executive committee of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, board of trustees for the Labor Heritage Foundation, board of governors for the United Way, and vice chairperson of the Democratic National Committee. This is a great deal for one woman to undertake.As Ms. Chavez-Thompson is, I will be active in Hispanic and African American causes, both politically and economically. I am very interested in the Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC) which is an agreement signed between Mexico and the United States to assist communities on both sides of the border with environmental infrastructure projects and to help identify projects for North American Development Bank financing. I feel that if Hispanic or African Americans can work together for both races and unify them to one this can be done, we have overcome many issues but it has been done together.
I would also one day like to work with The North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) that was created under the North American Agreement for Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC) to address their regional environmental concerns, help prevent potential trade and environmental conflicts, and promote the effective enforcement of environmental law.
My family, my love of both Mexico and the United States, and Ms. Chavez-Thompson has shaped my academic and personal goals. Though the above goals may seem difficult for a woman of culture to achieve, if I remain strong and focused, I can be very effective in the global marketplace. There’s two main hypotheses of how humans came to be both agree that **** erectus evolved in Africa and spread to the rest of the world around 1 - 2 million years ago. If the theory that humanity evolved from Africa its true then I guess we don’t have any divisions or borders, and the world wasn’t meant to be frosty white.
