Can Fabra’s talk
Genís
Fibla i Costa 7/10/16
The US elections are the main
event of the year for all those people who like politics like me. It’s
interesting to know who will become the most powerful man (or woman, we can say
that for the first time) in the world. Maybe for this reason, last Monday’s morning
was a bit special. We went to Can Fabra, and now you’ll ask yourself: Why did
you go to the library? Did you go to read? No, we went to a debate about the
next US elections.
It was, obviously, in English
and there were two Americans, both of Latin American ancestry who discussed the
typical electoral topics. At my left, there was a Mexican woman who strongly
supported the controversial ideas of Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
Next to her, there was a young man from Puerto Rico (the USA) who defended the
Democratic Party. The woman said that she was Republican because she and her
family escaped from the “hard Cuban’s communist dictatorship”. In the other
hand, the man said that he was Democratic because of his family tradition. It
was also interesting to see how they talked about some topics like racism which
here are taboo. Then, we could ask questions and I thought a question “Which is
your position in Catalonia’s self-determination?”, but I realized that it might
be very uncomfortable for them (they’re always so
ambiguous in this topic).
My personal opinion of the next
US elections is that I want neither Republican Party win nor Democrats. Betina
Inclán (the Republican woman) said that Venezuela is a dictatorship. Maybe
it’s, but, at least, in Venezuela there’s a right-wing party and a left-wing
party. Otherwise, in the US there’re two right-wing parties which defend the
neoliberal economic system, the largest military investment in the world or the
Arctic’s political partition. Luckily I can’t vote in this election.
GENÍS FIBLA
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