Superhero Identity Crisis

For my cultural project I chose to listen to radio broadcast stories on the station Radio Ambulante with a particular focus on Argentina. Another Country aired on March 28, 2017 focused on immigrant, Alejandra’s, struggle to find a job and a place to live and when she does find a place to live it may not be what she expected and certainly no one could have prepared her for the job that she would accept. The story told by Camilia Segura and Daniel Alarcón focused on the poor government system of Argentina, which in turn has created an identity crisis for many citizens across Argentina. Ironically ten days prior another story was aired, The Superhero, with same underlying theme of identity crisis resulting from poor government regulations. In The Superhero, a local man whose name was not immediately given was mugged and robbed in the safety of his own home. Upon notifying law enforcement they did nothing to help this man and his
In both stories, there were times when both Alejandra and Menganno questioned who they were as individuals to themselves. In fact at one point Menganno silenced himself from the public and stopped patrolling and in the end of Alejandra story she flees Argentina to restart her life and never reveals her original name because she fears the unknown that is associated with that identify. In both cases if there had been stronger rules in place, such that Alejandra did not get an apartment filled with blood or taken advantage to help with illegal trafficking Chinese immigrants because of her race or when Menganno was attacked and robbed the second time and law enforcement would have cared more about his life rather than carrying illegal fire weapon these people would not have to live in fear of the person they wanted once