While the United States grieves the recent loss of Joan Rivers and Robin Williams, Latin Americans everywhere are experiencing the same pain. Death is always a sad event, and although I wasn't as familiar with the work of Rivers or Williams, I can understand the pain that comes with an unexpected and sad loss.
Since I've been living in the United States, I've had my share of cultural miscommunication. When Gustavo Cerati, Argentinian musician and rock en español legend passed away this Thursday, I felt disconnected from the world. Cerati had been in a coma for the last four years after he suffered a stroke at one of his concerts in Venezuela.
My friends at home all know about it. My social media feeds were flooded by responses of people all over the world remembering Cerati and his work. Thinking about it took me back to those days in high school hanging out with friends and listening to Soda Stereo.
I can agree in an aspect and understand that death is a part of life. But Americans take death so dramatically. I feel like Americans only focus on other Americans and don't honor or respect the loss from other cultures. Even though i did grow up on Robin Williams , I understand that no one lives forever and it annoys me that because of social media everyone acts like they know the person that has died and so they post stuff about them. I feel like people want other people to see they are considerate but in actuality unless you are a celebrity no on else truly cares about you.
ReplyDeleteI totally understand. I usually try to read news everyday. I knows about major events that happen in America and many other countries. However, most of the time, I found out about my own country's news events through social media where news is spread faster than online newspaper that is usually updated only once a day since online news is not widely used in Thailand as in the U.S.
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