Chapter 2: Contrasting Durkheimian and Marxist perspectives:

In my last post, I posted about two main foods that served as a big part in my diet. These two are foods hold a big part of my life because I was raised to eat beans and rice. I was taught how to make rice from a very young age. I am still learning how to make the perfect recipe for beans but I’m sure I will master it soon. These two foods are a necessity for both sides of my family. Rice is the staple food in the Philippines. No matter what time of day it is or what meal, rice will always be on your plate. Filipinos will even save rice that you cooked the same day and use it for the whole week. If there is rice you didn’t finish it goes back in the pot. Latinos are more of the type to keep feeding you even when you said you don’t want no more helpings. Beans are used with almost everything in Latino dishes. You go to a Mexican restaurant you get bean with every single plate. Some relations between the two cultures are that not a lot of people know the Latinos ruled over the Philippines. A lot of Filipino last names are Hispanic and this may be where the two relate back to each other and why they have so much in common. Take the beans and rice for example, both of the cultures love to have rice and beans in their dishes, the Latinos ruled over the Philippines this does seem to have some sort of connection and relation to the dishes but this is just me and my personal opinion.