El Norte Faith Integration Response

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Faith Integration: El Norte El Norte is about a Guatemalan “Indian” family that are the target of an ethnic cleansing by the Guatemalan government. When the entire family is murdered except Enrique and his sister Rosa, they decide to flee Guatemala and head north. They arrive in México and find a coyote to take them across the border but their first attempt failed. A man posing as a coyote deceives and attempts to rob them and then they have a horrific experience when finally crossing the U.S./Mexican border through a sewer pipe laden with rats. Rosa and Enrique discover the difficulties of living in the U.S. without official documentation. They then find work and a place to live and initially feel good about their decision. Enrique is doing well and promoting when a co-worker reports him to immigration, causing him to flee the restaurant and seek out a businesswoman offering him a job in Chicago away from Rosa. When Enrique finally decides to take the position, Rosa becomes gravely ill with typhus contracted from the rat bites she received during their border crossing. After Rosa dies Enrique goes to work for a white lady in Chicago. This movie challenged me to think of when the white men were ambushing the original Native Americans and killing them for as well as any other type of ethnic cleansing in history. Enrique and Rosa are almost the same situation and the Native Americans but in a modern time where it was the government taking there lives from them. The people that were native to the lands were being exterminated for the way the looked, their culture, and for their beliefs so their home was no longer their home. This also changed the way I look at my government. For Enrique and Rosa, their government hated them and wanted them dead. If my government wanted me dead I could not even imaging where I would go or where I could seek refuge. At

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