Journal by Alejandro Priego Domínguez

Which parts of your identity do you think are chosen by you, and which are shaped by society? Why?

a01712364 — 2025-08-15 16:36:36 UTC

Looking in retrospective, I could say that a lot of parts of my identity where influenced by the people that raised me, in a good in a bad way. I take as expample the behaviors from the people that sorround me, so I myself decide what I want to be and what not. I also shape my believes to what I think based on the believes of others, so I can have my very own vision on the world th at can be familiar or similar.

In what ways can focusing on only one identity category hide important parts of a person's experience?

a01712364 — 2025-08-22 19:33:18 UTC

Only focusing on one part of identity could get people that do this kind of thing to somewhat get an obsession with it. Only focusing on one category shall be extremely unhealthy in a mental way even for oneself. In a social manner, it could even be despective or could disapprove the other parts of it, to be point to aggresion even. Fortunately, this is practicaly impossible to just focus on only one branch of identity, the human mind is shaped to think in a tridimensional manner, in which we can explore more than one possibilty in reality. We can't have one-struggle problems because it is impossible to have one struggled lives, therefore if someone just based their whole being around just a single thing, then it would be mentally a human.

When do you think art can become a form of social resistance?

a01712364 — 2025-10-02 16:41:11 UTC

Art has the goal of delivering a message from the author. Throughou history art has been a powerful way of communicating inequality, negligence and marginalization. When the author feels impacted by the reality of their world, whether they have lived through these problems or has seen them, that's when the resistance communicates and resonates with their public, being received by the people that either support them or stand against them.

Thinking about what the song expresses, why do you believe cultural conflicts happen and sometimes grow into violence?

a01712364 — 2025-10-23 04:54:14 UTC

The thing about conflicts is that they always start due to disagreements, clashing ideologies or most commonly; power competition. Violence is like the first thing when it comes to mind when a problem starts, but it is not always the very first thing that happens, but not the last either, "so many lost, but actually wins".

Why do you think some social or political problems become more visible when artists represent them, while others remain invisible?

a01712364 — 2025-11-13 16:39:14 UTC

The thing with most of social problems and comflicts is that people normally are afraid of speking the truth; it might be taboo, it might get them with penalization,maybe they don't even know about them becuase of the sensationalism/censorship they are normally victims to the point they think that they might be correct behaviors, or maybe they can not find the right words to express it. That is when artists come around and show these problems to the world in a creative and intelligent way so the world actually knows, while the ones causing these problems might not have the knowledge/are ignorant enough to realize that there is a problem made by them that is being adressed, whether it is intentional (which is most of the time) or not.