Bad Look Good Look

The example Dr.Johnson gave in class for "The Gaze" had a big meaning. About having a different impact of being watched and watching someone. You could say a difference of authority and freedom to be yourself or act proper in public. It's like wanting to act like your self at home compared to having to behave in public. The story Frantz Franon shares about being on the train and being called the "n" word by the child then it seems to have a diminishing Frantz self worth. Having a label put on yourself doesn't allow you to be yourself like you would want to be. I wouldn't see myself as just a Hispanic woman. I would see myself as a daughter, sister, and many other things. Being called illegal immigrant on the other hand would have a different affect. The way the government throws it out in the media and press makes it seem like hispanics are a burden and that we are the only ones that came to the United States. Many Hispanics on the other hand came legally or with a special reason. Yet when other people say it is more like they are stating a problem with having immigrants around not regular people that are trying to make a living. It would be like Franon being called the "n" word. It made him feel like an object being called an object instead of him being noticed as a person. Like he had no power to be able to deny that he is African American, but not the way the child saw him. The child saw him as nothing more than help, dirty, or an uneducated African American, yet Frantz Franon valued and saw himself differently that what the child saw. The impact of the word was more than being called but took on a job of identifying himself. Even though people say words don't hurt they do act as a label for people and could be taken as out of the norm in some societies.