Coming into The Country (Chapter 5)

(Photo Taken by:Ashley Dyce)


Living in America, has always taught me to be an individual. We always have options when you go to restaurants they ask you do you want soup or salad, or a grocery store paper or plastic. Theses days everything we do is an option either or, left or right, depends on the option you choice that’s the path you will take. Everyone choices something different which makes us all individuals. Like in the story Coming Into The Country Gish Jen Spoke about a Cochiti boy who’s basketball teem had to share one water bottle, but the team they were playing against each person had there own water bottles. Everyone as an individual, they probably each had different colors sizes and make different types of drinks in them, like water, Powerade or Gaterade. For the boy it wasn’t something he was shocked about because he never had the chance to choice he was just used to getting whatever he gets, no questions asked. I think as an American we are very spoiled, and all the different options we have in life, it is sometimes difficult to choice one thing.

For example women who have lots of shoes and clothes, it sometimes takes them hours to get dressed, because they have so many options and outfits to pick from its hard to find the one they want for the occasion. But if they just had one outfit to choice from one day they wouldn’t take as long to get dressed and it wouldn’t be difficult to choice what to wear, because it’s the only thing to wear. “Between freedom in theory and freedom in practice” in America “gapes a grand canyon” I think this quote is very true. Like I said before as an American we have to much freedom and options which is like practice so when we go to a place were there might be less freedom we feel out of place, and don’t know how to act. In other countries freedom is like a theory its something they hear about or maybe see on TV, but they never actually get to live it out in there own countries. And the separation between the two is like a grand canyon its just the two side and nothing in the middle.

In the picture I took I show all the different options I have in watching movies, sometimes it is hard to just pick one movie to watch. I have so many good ones sometimes I just end up not watching any because its to hard to choice, or I close my eyes and just grab one out the collection. And it just shows me how much being American is just pure freedom, and choice to be able to have all these things at my finger tips.