Flawless

            What is with America its so-called flawless perfection?

            What is it with Paternostro’s constant reiteration of America being the paramount impeccable existence lying on such a high pedestal? Yes, they have one of the most spurting and developed economies in the world. Yes, they are the center of the entertainment system what with Hollywood and all other material systems that survive on inordinate amounts of money and choking fame. Okay. Good for them. But that does not make America the epitome of a god to be worshiped and bow down to.

            Paternostro says, “ Guajiros were definitely corronchos, which for our purposes meant they weren’t Americanized, like us.”  I swear if America was a human being, said author would undoubtedly accost it and caress the hell out of it to the point of obtaining a restraining order. And seeing as she’s not actually from their, she would be encroaching on foreign boundaries and would receive a restraining order.

            If only.

            For starters ‘corronchos’ are just people with ultimately gaudy, cheap, tasteless fashion sense. Period. Maybe that’s just in Bogota or in my inner circle of life, but that’s how it is. She’s melting herself in a puddle of ethos because obviously being Americanized is the answer to everyone’s prayers and she gets some disturbing satisfaction in said accomplishment. She characterizes herself as Americanized and takes pride in such a fact. Who would be proud of consorting to conforming to the trend taking over the whole stratosphere? If she thinks she is special because she lived their for a while and got draped in the fabric of its being, then she has yet to come into contact with the words globalization and the diffusion of popular customs and trends by popular I mean American) that engulf the majority of the world.

            Yes. So special.

            I’d also like to point out her interest in North America and her obvious stereotyping of Colombia as a whole (she doesn’t seem to acquire and first-hand experience in the matter), as seen when she asks the guy on the plane why in the world he would willingly come to Colombia and saying, “It’s dangerous.”

            And so she fits in quite well with all the other ignorant Americans that deem their country the best and very easily manage to deign every other country certain stereotypes based on their very developed and independent manner of thinking.

            Sarcasm.

            Duh.

            The following map is called “ The World According to Americans.” It is hard to see, but Colombia is titled as United States of Cocaine. Paternostro is so lost running around her war with words while attempting to further her career, that it wouldn’t surprise me if this is the way she views the world:

Oh, yes.