Güerita's Blog

Hookup culture, it’s what everyone is doing now. When it comes to the relationships youth are having today, hooking up is the norm. Friends with benefits, situationship, grooming, these are all examples of common romantic predicaments young people find themselves in that aren’t actually committed relationships.  In my opinion, a big reason why hookup culture has become so predominant and such a problem is, one, because of the internet. At no point in history have we ever been as lonely of a society as we are today. People live by themselves in their apartment, go to work, and occasionally see their friends if they have spare time. Love just like the internet can become addictive. In a world where we have a plethora of options at our fingertips, users of social media have gotten used to instant gratification. With dating apps it is easy to message someone you don’t know and meet up with them that day and possibly hook up. That is what people are interested in now, something quick to...

Femicide: ” the killing of a woman or girl, in particular by a man and on account of her gender.” This is the definition the Oxford dictionary gives when you search for femicide. I know this topic might sound terrifying at first,  but it is a very real issue many women live in fear of. Femicides are a global hate crime but are prone to be problems in societies where machismo is present. ”The rates of femicide differ depending on the specific country, but of the countries with the top 25 highest femicide rates, 50% are in Latin America.” In Mexico city, the city I lived in for 13 years, femicides are one of the most prevalent crimes. On my Facebook feed every other day something would pop up. Articles saying, have you seen Fernanda? girl goes missing in Tlalpan yesterday at 8:16pm, 7 year old girl Fatima killed in femicide. It starts to become overwhelming when one is exposed to these anxiety provoking posts. Naturally, the women of Mexico quickly got fed up with living in fear....

We use language everyday. It is something that inherently forms as a part of our identity, shows who we most identify ourselves with, and expresses our culture. People are born with what is known as their native language, any additional languages after one's native language turns them into a bilingual, trilingual, or for three percent of the population speaking four or more languages, qualifies them as a polyglot. A person who only speaks their native language is known as monolingual, approximately forty percent of the population is monolingual. In today's modern world where generations now have knowledge and resources at their fingertips, but also where intercultural relationships are becoming increasingly more common, the result of this is a world that is dominantly bilingual. Forty three percent of the globe's population is bilingual in comparison to monolinguals forty percent.  If you are someone like me who grew up between two cultures and were spoken to in two languag...

  Ah.. Italy, the land of infamously delicious and complex food. Italy has been long recognized as a culinary powerhouse for its discoveries and techniques in cooking. Although the country is known for its vast assortment of pizza and pasta dishes, it has learned to master other ingredients as well, including rice. But this is not just any rice, and it is certainly not the kind of rice you would use for an asian dish. I am talking about the esteemed, arborio rice. This rice is a short grain rice which means that it is packed with starch. Providing a luxurious, creamy texture that makes this dish so iconic. The dish I am talking about is, of course, risotto. The word risotto comes from the Italian word “riso” meaning rice. In human history, rice has been a staple for centuries first dating “ in northern Thailand (ca. 2000 to 1500 BC); and the An Sơn site in southern Vietnam (ca. 2000 to 1200 BC).” It was not until some 2,000 years later that rice made its way to Italy. “ The histor...