Blog Response # 3

Q: What is the difference between pride and ego?

R:I don’t really think there is a difference between pride and ego, both go hand in hand making people feel mentally, and physically content about them self’s and life styles. What I suppose differs Ego and Pride is that, at time people who have pride usually do not flaunt it so often as people with big ego’s, people who fell they need to talk about their self’s or accomplishments over and over again. For instances I’m in Portugal as I type, its been an experience that by far and it also has been a blessing that I can be here and I have pride for my parents that had to sacrifice so much in order for me to be here. I also take pride in the choices I made to come to this trip and maybe the consequences when I come back. But back to my point, in my group there is this women who at first she seemed as a humble old lady, coming to Europe for a great time with her husband. But my assumptions were way off, this lady told me this story about how she has traveled the world twice and how she manages to be financially stable when she returns back from her trips. I lie to you not, I herd this story about twenty times the whole day. I felt as if I could tell you her story and how she ate frog legs thinking they were chicken legs in china. The way she would speak to the other people in the bus was full of arrogance with a mixture of pride and ego as well. What I came up with as I was observing her as a piece of data for this question ,was that she took a lot of pride in what people would respond to her. Also the complements she would receive would be all the same “senora como le haces, eres la mujer maravilla Mexicana”, meaning how do you do it , you’re the Mexican wonder woman. Her face would light up with so much pride but at the same time she would flaunt it so much that it made it seem she only did it to boost her ego or to show people how wealthy she is. In Chapter fourteen Juan Salvador comes back from Montana, after nineteen years to Corona a barrio in Los Angles, to see his mother and sisters. When Juan Salvador finally meets and catches up with his family he takes time to meet his nephews Jose and Pedro. Jose asks his uncle Juan that if it was true if he use to have a lot of power back in Mexico, Juan responded with a strong prideful yes, but Pedro asked him if he was also rich, because his mother told him that Mexicans are always poor. This triggered Juan’s ego because he was so angry and disappointed and even disrespected in a sense. Juan responded with telling his nephew that if he knew what his great great grandfather did and how he fought along side Benito Juarez. Juan with anger in his eyes and with a hurt ego and pride left feeling that his people self doubt their abilities to succeed and be rich as the “gringos”.