Mi Vida Loca, a movie based on a book, called always running, about the gang life in Huntington Park, California, is the one movie’s that remind me the most of imperialism. These gangs are meant to control territory and power; it is what the gang life is all about. The fight and argue about who owns what side of town, over names, and who has the most power around. In Los Angeles, California this is a very common factor among teenagers. School are filled with Gangs and Gang member who try to get teenagers to get involved in their gang activities because they know it will take them a lot more to come out the gang life then it would take an adult. Also, in Mi Vida Loca, The girls try to fight like the boys do, they try to fight battles that they should not try to fight for the boys, even though they come from the same culture in this case the same gang, they have different duties then the one they try to fight.
This movie reminds me of imperialism because just like the U.S fights to earn power, the gang members fight other gangs which in the case of this country it would be other countries. As hard as it seems, yeah sometimes the gang members’ fight to help other people like the U.S helped Cuba become an independent country from Spain. The gang members also fight to help other people, or as they see it to help the people of their own kind, which in the case of this movies it would be the Mexicans. They protect themselves, and they help other Mexican’s too.
In the other hand, while the U.S government fights for the best of our country, and it looks good, whereas when the police sees the gang members fight they say it is illegal and they should not do it but at the end of the day it is the example we show our kids. They youngsters are the ones who lern the most about the gang life, especially when they are born in the gang. One you are born in a gang you have no way out of it or you will go through many horrible situations. When you are bron in imperiaiism you can not get out of it unless your teacher gets you out but in this case not even the parents can get out out. It is important for them to always keep up with the enemies.
In another point of view, we can also say that the gang members and imperialism are similar because just the way when imperialism becomes in charge of different countries that still stand on their own the gang members can help you out but if they like you and only you they will not let people from the other cliques inside their town and if they do decide to come just like that something really bad can happen to them. The gang members take pride and power very serious and if they do not get respected they will be very offended and it would take So much for them to be nice again. They would not trust you or the gang you are a head of.
