Understanding Respect in El Barrio

Understanding Respect in El Barrio


Chrysovalantis Petridis,
student # 911250933
Anthro 1110Y,
TA Arum Chaudhuri


To many the occupants of west Harlem, or as they call it El Barrio, are ghetto folks who are not equally as good as the people who live in “more civilised areas” of the Americas. Said civilized areas consider themselves more evolved that their tribal primitive gang ghetto counterparts. In a manner similar to early anthropologists people see the good folks of Al Barrio as inferior and needed a way out or a way to become civilized like they are. The entire ethical code of the creed of anthropology is based on the delimitation of said ideas of superiority. The derogatory manner in which people understand the peoples of said borough in New York City is indicative of the same type of attitude that caused anthropology to shift in its understanding and impress the idea of cultural equality and non judgmental status to all anthropological investigations. The people of said Borough are a hard working, peaceful, virtuous and divinely sectioned people who are as civilized and as good as any other culture in the world.

Many outsiders to borough life are fooled by the veil of difference that separates these people from the rest of the world. The veil is ignorance and is an illusion meant to protect the peace of mind of those both inside and outside said area. Not only is Al borough not an island onto itself completely cut off from the rest of cultural America but it takes the effort of a lot of people to guard the doors into this Eden of urban community. To the people living outside the borough and the circle of respect that comes from being aware of what is occurring with said area, said borough is a low income, uneducated area that is understood as being primitive and lacking any cultural capitalism . Philip Bourgeois in his book "In Search of Respect” examines the life of said people and teaches people about said life while secretly hiding the respect he has for these people’s way of life that includes the approval of rituals people outside the borough might find offensive if not enumerated concerning the virtue and by extension the religious nature of said practices.
The Boarders of said borough are patrolled by Gnostic, or those who know the truth concerning the life said boroughs occupants live. Police stop anyone from the outside who enters the borough uninvited; to avoid any “… breach of security…” When stopped the police see whether someone has entered the borough to find something like crack or heroin, and/or to see someone they know. In one sense this is similar to the person sent by Pythia to see what one has come to the borough for a head of time, including finding dope. In this way the good officers help one found the connection they desire while keeping those not inculcated in the culture from causing trouble for anyone. Many come to the borough to partake in the commune of the incense of the people called crack. The special formula and mixture( ie coke, heroin baking soda and so on) of this marble like ambrosia links people to an ancient tradition of salts forming stones as a stoners buzz that vamps people up and causes them to crank up as a crack up. Athena grew from a crack on Dyeus head as he realised the rush of elated glory, having to break the stone with a metal molded hammer. Cocaine and opium has been used as part of communion for eons and is utilised in a similar fashion of cannabis is by Rasta. Christian, Muslims, assassin ( hasha consumers) and others People from all over new York go out of their way to go buy the special mango coded commune from the Al boroughnians rather than from another source, and there are many other sources available to people in new York. Bouzios describes the ritual method of dispensing crack in the arcade used by his informants in said borough. Not only is it hidden so people who think its an evil substance might not cause trouble for people but it is dispensed through a video game that was chosen do to its religious connotation of commune and empowerment. In the arcade the holy incense is sold out of a Miss Pac man machine Pac man was inspired by a Japanese Shinto legend that describes someone who would eat food pellets and power up on power pellets. Crack is called food in El borough by the addicts who are addicted to its divine speed and revelations. The addiction is that of enlightenment and not a real physical or psychological desire. The crack is said to vamp you up so you jump to a higher level of thinking.

Many people think that the people of Al Borough are thieves as are those who go to buy the holy incense. No one steals in side El borough and they do not like the heat caused by thieves. The police and occupants who call the police to check on visitors check to make sure those coming in are lawful and abiding. There are cultural of passage practiced in Al borough that many might misconstrue as unlawful. However it is these practices that portray the virtue of said people. Fir example, one practice partaken in is learning car mechanics by stealing designated cars . No one causes heat in the borough and Bouzios learned when he was told to obey the rules and was baptized as lawful before everyone by Cesar ( the ruler or king authority for Bourgious), he was as revelation said declared to below to the person who would make sure he caused to trouble. He notes that he avoided doing anything for weeks scared of doing anything wrong. Every one knew that the informant who informed Bouzios and the people of said borough of the rules would make sure the obeyed them and the manner in which this was conveyed to everyone prophylactic ally ensured it. This is also a rite of passage to bring one into the fold of the embrace of respect of the rites of borough culture and living. Bouzios hide this lesson in the same manner of indoctrination as that of said borough so that one reached this understanding based on realizing the virtue of this way and he also hide it to avoid trouble from those who would get mad at him not understanding that he condemned things some less informed people would consider illegal, like selling dope and crack. The government had this key hidden to avoid people misusing the ideas of such communes till the time they could introduce it to everyone with equal understanding of the same ritual. In other words the US government turned a blind eye till it was able to globalize a friendly politics with the people from the nations the dopes like coke came from, while teaching tolerance and temperance to their own people and by extension the rest of the world.
Another rite of passage in the borough might be called Sodom and Gomorra. Sodom is sodium, as Gomorra marble stone. Lots wife becomes a pillar of stone if one reads the conceptual rape ritual as that of more than one women and in reverse a homosexual festival if Gomorra( to fuck in Hebrew and Greek). The rite begins by asking one after they have partaken of the commune, as Bouzios did, if they prefer sex with a male or with women, do they prefer gang bangs or one on ones. This ritual also tests faithfulness as one is not allowed to partake in it without permission of their spouse. In one description of said Benjamite like feasts, a sacrificial female is taken to an empty building and several men rape her, though said rape is done with consent. To allow the rape ritual to feel real and be fun, in the fashion of the Benjamites rite, the people in the El Barrio ritual, the men, are convinced during their first rape ritual experience that it is real. However at the same time they convey the idea that it is a consensual rape and tell the person the female in question has already consented. One can partake in any type of ritual including one of a date as one on one. A similar ritual is portrayed in the tale of west side story that tells of the same boroughs life and culture through one who chose a date ritual of one by one. In this tale the male falls in love with the girl set up to be his companion and ends up running out in front of everyone screaming and attesting his love for her in front of everyone. This is a similar tale to Buddha (and bhiuddah) that entered the western paradise, chose to disregard the three daughters of Maya to have a mother goddess and a wife, monogamously understood, attest his love of enlightenment and the virtue shared by good people like those in the Al barrio. It is an east side story, a side dream, lived on the B side in the west past Hercules golden apples in a commune of the golden fruit cake of mango communes as the sweetness of this divine way is realised as sanctioned( sanctified) by God and all good now informed people.
In conclusion, the police and good people from both inside and outside of Al Barrio try to maintain peace and peace of mind for both those inside the island of west Harlem or Alborrio as the government and those informed help people live their holy communes and rites of passage sweetened to diabetic cake that tastes like a ripened candied mango and papaya. Bouzios maintains the code of ethics outlined by anthropology and does not judge or betray the informants and rites of passages they believe in. He makes sure he conveys the lessons in such a manner to allow people to understand them based on the manner of rite by which he was inculcated in said rites. Thus by reading Bouzios ethnology of Al Barrio causes one to experience and pass through each rite gaining the wisdom of it as if living them first hand in said borough. It is an excellent text for vicariously experience first hand the true right of passage necessary to be informed of what is needed to gain the respect sought concerning such ghettos( ghatteaux) and transcendence through their divine ways. As Maya taught Buddhists, the dream or illusion created by reading this is truly the reality of the experience of Rl (our) Barrio.



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endnotes Bourgois [USA 2003] pp. iii-x, 28-29, 53=55
ibid pp.xxii-xxiii
ibid pp.xiii-xvi
ibid p.22
ibid pp.22-28
http://www.pantheon.org/articles/p/pythia.html
Bourgois [USA 2003] pp 29-37
http://www.experiencefestival.com/dyeus
http://blog.revmike.us/?p=8
http://www.anglicancommunioninstitute.com/?p=332
http://cgi.ebay.com/Olive-wood-Communion-Cups-Olive-wood-from-Israel-6-cups_W0QQitemZ26036...
Bourgois [USA 2003] pp. 29-36,. 37-44, 77- 80 , 81-131
http://www.destructoid.com/pac-man-legend-there-is-only-one-a-s-s--30394.phtml
Bourgois [USA 2003] pp. 49-53
ibid pp. iii-x, 28-29, 53=55
ibid 81-113.
http://www.allaboutarchaeology.org/seven-churches-in-revelation.htm
Bourgous[ USA 2003] pp. 29-36,. 37-44,71-73 77- 80 , 81-131

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodom_and_Gomorrah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe_of_Benjamin
bourgous [2003 USA] 23, 174-5. 186-189, 267-9, 215, 228-273, 314
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http://www.exoticindiaart.com/product/TN70/
http://www.bluehatuk-teambuilding.co.uk/twelve-tasks-of-hercules-team-building-activity.ht..
http://www.mythencyclopedia.com/Go-Hi/Hercules.html
Bourgious [ USA 2005] pp. 318-327

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