The duality of being both oppressor and oppressed in different places

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Evelyn Veronica Almeida

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The main purpose of this article is to offer a different perspective of an oppressor and an oppressed person and to understand my own reality through my own experience. My reality is that I am a mestizo from Ecuador, and in Ecuador mestizo is the dominant and “preferred” ethnicity. This duality makes me a person with unique characteristics. Characteristics that on occasion make me privileged and a person who commonly oppresses, exploits, and rules others with economic and social force. On the other hand, other situations make me a colonized person who is characterized by being self-depreciated, dependent, and masochist when I am in the position of Latino woman in the United States. I would like to think about myself as a woman who is willing to “develop [my] power to perceive critically the way [I] exist in the world with which and in which [I] find myself” (Freire, 2000, p.12). I would like to see this world as a reality in a process of transformation.


 

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Almeida, E. V. (2017). The duality of being both oppressor and oppressed in different places. INNOVA Research Journal, 2(3), 80–90. https://doi.org/10.33890/innova.v2.n3.2017.134
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Evelyn Veronica Almeida, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Ecuador

Docente Centro de Idiomas (Universidad Central del Ecuador)

DOcente Carrera de Linguistica Applicada al Idioma Ingles (Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE)

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