In five pages this paper discusses how Rigoberta Menchu's journey to Mexico expanded her community understanding. Six sources are cited in the bibliography.
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poor population of Guatemala and seeing her family members killed by the government no doubt had a great impact on her perspective. Her father, a fighter for independence of the
people of Guatemala was eventually killed for his beliefs and Menchu continued his battle. Her Mayan culture already had an open perspective of community responsibility in regards to the raising
of children. This perspective of community was broadened to include the community of all of the people of her country through her education with Catholic Action which also provided her
with the reading, writing and language skills needed to organize political action. Once in Mexico, Menchu realized the enormity of the oppression which existed throughout the world and her idea
of community and global responsibility further expanded to include all those in the global community. Rigoberta Menchu was born in 1960 in a
poor Indian peasant family in the Quiche branch of the Mayan culture in Guatemala. On one level, Menchu believed that she was blessed in that she had a strong father,
Vincente, who fought for the independence and against the oppression of the Guatemalan people by its own government but on another level because of his fight and her later involvement
with the social reform movements of the Catholic Church, Menchu and her family suffered terribly (Welker, 2002; Nichols, 1995). Her fathers involvement in the fight for the democratic rights of
his people led to his imprisonment and torture and was eventually burned to death in front of his family during a peaceful demonstration at the Spanish embassy. Her 16 year
old brother was also captured and burned to death in front of his families and neighbors and the government killed her mother as well. By the time Menchu was twenty