Latin American HUM

Fig.1. Karla Cornejo Villavicencio and her book "The  Undocumented Americans", Harvard University, Immigration Initiative at Harvard.           Today's blog is based on one of the broadcasts of the LatinoUSA radio station, which was on air on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. I listened to the program a couple days later, on Tuesday, November 17, 2020. The transmission is entitled "The American Dream Daughter: A Conversation With Author Karla Cornejo Villavicencio" and the host who directed it was Maria Hinojosa. The program addressed issues of the life of Karla Cornejo and their presence in her book entitled "The Undocumented Americans." It is a very interesting interview that I really enjoyed listening to.           What I learned from their conversation is that there is a mental condition called survivor guilt, which refers to the fact that a person can feel guilty for having overcome certain adversities in their life, comparing themse...

Fig. 1. Parents are adjusting to working from home while  also developing a homeschool program for their children, Getty, 19 Mar. 2020, Insider.com            Today’s blog is going to be about an interesting program called Latino USA, which runs on 90.9 FM Sundays nights from 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. The segment entitled “The Parents Are Not Alright” was live on October 6, 2020, however, I listened to it on October 21, 2020. The hosts of the program were Maria Hinojosa along with Jeanne Montalvo. Jeanne was the one in charge of an interview with three guest speakers. The purpose and topic of the program were to virtually gather with parents from different locations in the U.S. and talk about their experiences during this hard time of the Covid-19.           I learned that each of us is experiencing different hardships depending on our occupations, if we have children, and even vary according to the school year in which they a...