Another class simulation...

Dear Diary,
I am a Mestizo originally from Europe. Seeing that this is true, I believe that teaching women to read and write is perfectly acceptable. Most Spanish and other Europeans will argue that teaching women to read and write would corrupt them. I don’t I don’t believe this to be true. My wife is a very intelligent woman. Although she didn’t have any formal teaching, I have taught her what I know, and she has picked up quickly on it. All women should be able to learn these skills. It is my belief that it is necessary to know these skills in order to survive in everyday life. Without knowing all this, women today make up about half of our population and don’t know anything about anything. If women knew these skills, then I can just imagine what life would be like if we had 100% of the population figuring things out, and not just half. I believe that letting women learn to read and write would be the best course of action to benefit this society the most.

An assigned simulation for class.

Dear Diary,
Today, I was treated very poorly and nastily by some Europeans only because I am a Mestizo. They called me very rude names and said that I didn’t deserve to be living here. I explained to them that I was practically European myself since I had the same blood as them, but they wouldn’t listen to me. I am the same as them! I just was born in a different country, that’s all. I should still have the same rights as the Europeans because I consider myself to be European too. I am forced to hold a lower position in society because they don’t consider us to be one of them. While I’m stuck as some overseer somewhere, they are ruling society and making not only all of the economic decisions, but also the political decisions.