Etiqueta: essay
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Decisions: Loving an AI Ms. or Mr.? —01 by j Re Crivello
“They call it the loneliness economy,” he added. “There’s the boom in feminism in China, increased media attention to domestic violence… and then there’s still strong gender discrimination in the workplace. I think all of this together leads women to try at least one boyfriend through AI.” (Expansión 16-02-26) We…
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The Shrine for Revolutionaries by C J Anderson-Wu
In addition to the Cultural Chests project commissioned by the National Museum of History, Master Wang Dang-Bai’s studio was seeing growing business. These days, visitors came frequently, and Chen Jin-Jieh found himself assigned difficult tasks he could not refuse. Finally, Master Wang explained the latest challenge—they needed to reproduce the…
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Congratulations on writing 500 posts on LatinosUSA!
February 2025/ february 2026 Just a quick note: if current traffic levels continue, LatinosUSA will go from 35,000 visits at the end of 2025 to 70,000 in 2026. And thank you to everyone! Readers and writers alike, for supporting this community. Juan Ré Crivello Editor & Founder
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Living is flowing by Susana Cabaço
All living things, just like the physical reality they express themselves in, exist in a flow state. Living in itself implies flowing—an organic beingness that fluidly heads toward new horizons and states. You, as an integral part of the Universe, also exist in a fluidness that keeps unfolding at every…
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Psychological Warfare: Put Down Your Weapon and Relocate
Author: Salizan Takisvilainan Translator: C. J. Anderson-Wu Outside of the tribal community A broadcast is heard: Dear fellows, you are already surrounded by landslides, stop resisting in vain. Put down your weapons Put down the shovel you carry on shoulder Put down the hope in your mind Put down the…
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kid at the back of the class by Bogdan Dragos
he’s the one sitting in the back of the class wondering what it would be like to have the power to cause someone to instantly burst into flames it makes him happy for a while It’s a way to channel the inner rage meanwhile his grades are suffering and the…
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Mr Tambourine Man: cultural references (2)
LE BATEAU IVRE (Rimbaud) Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin’ ship,My senses have been stripped, my hands can’t feel to grip,My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heelsTo be wanderin’. This verse recalls the poem “Le Bateau Ivre” (The Drunken Boat) written by…
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The Masquerade of the North by Uchechukwu Onyedikam
In the dusty outskirts of Maiduguri, where the sun scorched the earth and the air transported the weight of unspoken fears, Zainab lived a life stitched together by survival. She was a schoolteacher, or had been, before Boko Haram’s shadow fell over Borno State. Now, her days were spent weaving…
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Review: The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey (@CathChidgey) by Olga Miret
Hi, all: I bring you a book by an author new to me, but one that I will follow in the future. The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey England, 1979. Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining residents of a secluded New Forest home, part of the government’s…
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Book Review: The Hardest Job in the World – The American Presidency by Edward Ortiz
It’s interesting to learn how the office of the president of the United States came to be and how it has changed over time, mostly due to Congress’s neglect. I have been reading about the Founding Fathers and the important documents they produced that have guided this country. So when…
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Eternal and divine by Susana Cabaço
Holding on to your ultimate truth—your eternalness and divineness—keeps your humanness sound and expansive, beyond the constructs of ego and external upheavals. No wave of darkness can engulf your light, no wind of deceit can blow away your goodness, and no earthquake of dread can shake your true foundation. The…
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DIFFERENCES by Jeffrey Zable
Of course, each person is treated differently, and for a multitude of different reasons, but some of the main reasons are surely related to how they look, how much money they have, power they control, and, of course, what they can do for the person who is seeking their attention.…
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Christmas Novellas by Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol by Robbie Cheadle
A Christmas Carol tells the story of an elderly miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who is visited by the ghost of his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley, on Christmas Eve. Jacob Marley is described as having a pigtail and a waistcoat, tights and boots and looking much the same in death as…
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Blue (2) by Luisa Zambrotta
In Hinduism a lot of gods are depicted with blue-coloured skin, particularly those associated with Vishnu, the preserver of the world and thus connected to water. Shiva, the destroyer, is also depicted in light blue tones and is called blue-throated, for having swallowed poison in an attempt to turn a…
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Christmas Novellas by Charles Dickens – The Battle of Life, a Love Story by Robbie Cheadle
Picture credit: Link The Battle of Life is a love story by Charles Dickens that was first published in 1846. It is the fourth of Dickens’ five Christmas Books. It is the only story in the collection that does not have a supernatural element. The story is set in an English…
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“Third World” Is Outdated—and Dangerous: It’s Time to Change How We Speak by Edward Ortiz
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I heard the term “Third World” quite a lot. I think this is one of those expressions that needs to be erased from our vocabulary, since there is only one world, and all countries belong to it. Using that term promotes discrimination and disdain toward people…
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