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A review by mikibooks
Let It Snow by Heidi Cullinan
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Mi pregunta es:
¿Nadie, pero NADIE, notó los enormes y gigantescos prejuicios que tiene este libro con determinados temas sociales, llenándose por otra parte la boca hablando de aquellos sostenidos contra la comunidad gay?
¿Nadie notó cómo la autora tiene algunos pre-conceptos graves con los inmigrantes?
¿Y con las personas que viven en barrios pobres?
Las únicas conclusiones que me quedaron son:
a) Ser inmigrante se traduce a vivir en un gueto apartado y, por ende, tener cierta genética para atacar a una persona gay y/o afeminada, asaltar, robar, etc.
("There are places I have to be careful, sure, and some of the immigrant communities are downright dangerous because they brought their prejudices with them"...¿de verdad a nadie le hace ruido esto?)
b) Si sos pobre, vivís en un barrio también marginado, probablemente derruido, al que todos le tienen miedo y lanzan advertencias como si se tratara del mismísimo fin del mundo.
c) No se puede confiar en una persona pobre (si ademas es inmigrante, peor), porque seguro te maltrate, te diga "faggot", te eche de su casa y te robe.
(Frankie yendo con toda su amabilidad y raza aria a ayudar a una mujer embaraza pobre, y por ende cruel, más allá de las miles de advertencias sobre la peligrosidad del lugar, siendo asaltado ahí mismo, y encontrando solo consuelo y calma...cuando va a cortarle el pelo a la mujer del "Mayor")
Además, la historia resulta poco verosímil, todo sucede con demasiado apuro, con muchos pozos argumentales, a los que aparentemente decidió llenar de prejuicios. No se puede hacer agradable a un personaje, volviendo desagradable todo lo demás. Sólo termina dejando en claro su profunda ignorancia.
Soy argentina, y como todos mis compatriotas latinoamericanos, víctima por décadas del maltrato, la denigración, la violencia, los prejuicios de las sociedades avanzadas que buscan imponernos su cultura y borrarnos del mapa. Una vergüenza.
English translation: (sorry for the mistakes)
My question is:
Nobody noticed the enormous and gigantic prejudices that this book has with certain social issues, moreover boasting off about those held against the gay community?
Nobody noticed that the author has some serious pre-concepts against immigrants?
And with people living in "slums"?
The only conclusions that i had after finishing the book were:
a) Being an immigrant can be translated to live in a separate ghetto and therefore have some basic genetics to attack a gay and/or effeminate person, assault, theft, etc.
(Quote: "There are places I have to be careful, sure, and some of the immigrant communities are downright dangerous because they brought their prejudices with them"... Really this sounds ok to you?)
b) If you're poor, you obviously live in a slum, that is also probably demolished, to which all are scared and throw warnings as if it were the very end of the world. And, as you are poor, you are inevitably a delinquent.
c) You can not trust someone poor (if is also an immigrant, even worse), because he/she will surely mistreat you, will insult you, and steal from you.
(Frankie going with all his kindness and Aryan race to help a pregnant woman -poor and, thus cruel-, despite the thousands of warnings about the dangers of the place, being assaulted there, and finding only solace and calm ... in the peacefull house of the Major and his white wife)
Moreover, the plot is not really plausible, everything happens too fast, with many plot holes, which apparently she decided to filled with prejudice. You can not make nice with a character, becoming unpleasant everything else. It just makes more clear her profound ignorance.
I am from Argentina, and like all my Latin American compatriots, victim of decades of abuse, denigration, violence, and the prejudice of the "advanced societies", that seek to impose their culture and wipe us out. Disgraceful
¿Nadie, pero NADIE, notó los enormes y gigantescos prejuicios que tiene este libro con determinados temas sociales, llenándose por otra parte la boca hablando de aquellos sostenidos contra la comunidad gay?
¿Nadie notó cómo la autora tiene algunos pre-conceptos graves con los inmigrantes?
¿Y con las personas que viven en barrios pobres?
Las únicas conclusiones que me quedaron son:
a) Ser inmigrante se traduce a vivir en un gueto apartado y, por ende, tener cierta genética para atacar a una persona gay y/o afeminada, asaltar, robar, etc.
("There are places I have to be careful, sure, and some of the immigrant communities are downright dangerous because they brought their prejudices with them"...¿de verdad a nadie le hace ruido esto?)
b) Si sos pobre, vivís en un barrio también marginado, probablemente derruido, al que todos le tienen miedo y lanzan advertencias como si se tratara del mismísimo fin del mundo.
c) No se puede confiar en una persona pobre (si ademas es inmigrante, peor), porque seguro te maltrate, te diga "faggot", te eche de su casa y te robe.
(Frankie yendo con toda su amabilidad y raza aria a ayudar a una mujer embaraza pobre, y por ende cruel, más allá de las miles de advertencias sobre la peligrosidad del lugar, siendo asaltado ahí mismo, y encontrando solo consuelo y calma...cuando va a cortarle el pelo a la mujer del "Mayor")
Además, la historia resulta poco verosímil, todo sucede con demasiado apuro, con muchos pozos argumentales, a los que aparentemente decidió llenar de prejuicios. No se puede hacer agradable a un personaje, volviendo desagradable todo lo demás. Sólo termina dejando en claro su profunda ignorancia.
Soy argentina, y como todos mis compatriotas latinoamericanos, víctima por décadas del maltrato, la denigración, la violencia, los prejuicios de las sociedades avanzadas que buscan imponernos su cultura y borrarnos del mapa. Una vergüenza.
English translation: (sorry for the mistakes)
My question is:
Nobody noticed the enormous and gigantic prejudices that this book has with certain social issues, moreover boasting off about those held against the gay community?
Nobody noticed that the author has some serious pre-concepts against immigrants?
And with people living in "slums"?
The only conclusions that i had after finishing the book were:
a) Being an immigrant can be translated to live in a separate ghetto and therefore have some basic genetics to attack a gay and/or effeminate person, assault, theft, etc.
(Quote: "There are places I have to be careful, sure, and some of the immigrant communities are downright dangerous because they brought their prejudices with them"... Really this sounds ok to you?)
b) If you're poor, you obviously live in a slum, that is also probably demolished, to which all are scared and throw warnings as if it were the very end of the world. And, as you are poor, you are inevitably a delinquent.
c) You can not trust someone poor (if is also an immigrant, even worse), because he/she will surely mistreat you, will insult you, and steal from you.
(Frankie going with all his kindness and Aryan race to help a pregnant woman -poor and, thus cruel-, despite the thousands of warnings about the dangers of the place, being assaulted there, and finding only solace and calm ... in the peacefull house of the Major and his white wife)
Moreover, the plot is not really plausible, everything happens too fast, with many plot holes, which apparently she decided to filled with prejudice. You can not make nice with a character, becoming unpleasant everything else. It just makes more clear her profound ignorance.
I am from Argentina, and like all my Latin American compatriots, victim of decades of abuse, denigration, violence, and the prejudice of the "advanced societies", that seek to impose their culture and wipe us out. Disgraceful