While I was reading Eva Peron\u2019s \u201cMy Message\u201d I couldn\u2019t help myself laugh a bit, not because I\u2019m mocking her writing but because I\u2019ve heard this perception of the people from many (especially politicians) over the years. \u201cEl pueblo\u201d (as I\u2019m sure this was Eva\u2019s direct translation of \u201cthe people\u201d) is conceptualized as a \u201crace\u201d of people which is characterized by having good moral values and being hard workers however they are exploited by another race, the oligarchs who are totally opposite to the people. Basically, the concept of the people to Eva Peron is very similar to that of politicians today try so hard to relate with; the lower working class. Eva\u2019s use of metaphor to distinguish the people as a race is a very interesting one. She repeats this word in order to distinguish between the people and the oligarchs, since a race is composed of distinct specie that shares distinct characteristics. This basically means that since they both come from different races (oligarchs and the people) they are totally different. As different as salt is from pepper. However I do not agree with this notion since I find it very idealized. <\/p>\n
Borges writing was interesting since it posed a totally different perspective from that of Eva\u2019s people. As I was reading it I tried to place it in a historical context, but I wasn\u2019t able to pin point an exact date or event. However, my best deduction is that it was at some time during Peron\u2019s presidency, and that \u201cthe Monster\u201d was not the army, rather a nationalist group. Regardless I found this reading quite interesting since it presents another characteristic of the people. In a way, I think Eva sees the people as been just plainly being black or white, while Borges sees the other colors of the people. These colors were not so beautiful, since it described a more violent and evil aspect of this \u201crace\u201d that Eva didn\u2019t. And that is why I believe Borges account is more realistic than that of Eva\u2019s, not because I\u2019m saying that the people are more violent, simply because if you are assigned a particular group or race it is not a guarantee that you\u2019ll behave accordingly with their set norms. Eva did not acknowledge that in her people race there are going to be undeniably some rotten apples, and in the oligarch race there are going to be some good apples. As I said, not everything is black or white, especially us humans and our behavior; we are much more complex than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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