Both anthropology and biology have shown that there are seven universal, human emotions: happiness, anger, contempt, disgust, sadness, surprise, and fear. The other emotions are taught; hate is one of these emotions. George Orwell first illustrated how an internal hate and the natural contempt can be manipulated by evil leaders and dictators to wield against others. In the novel, Animal Farm, young pups were torn from their parents at a young age, and they grow up in an isolated and manipulated mental state where they turned against everyone, even their own kind, to defend the pig-dictating species. Modern times have proved that this internalized oppression and hatred has often existed in various decades and never has been more evident than in the present. African Americans have dealt with people who are quick to sell out their voice and being for the approval of white racist views. Latinos and Chicanos have also been affected by this consistently and currently. The extremely high rate of Latin American I.C.E. agents prove the insidious brainwashing by the invisible, yet persistent “Manifest Destiny” rhetoric.

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     The second betrayal in the Bible is when Cain kills his own brother Abel. Every generation has heard of or is introduced to this story, as well as the betrayal of Judas Iscariot to Jesus. There are just as many recent historical accounts that mention this type of betrayal. The most famous one is a man who hid his identity for years, William O’Neal. Back during the Civil Rights and Black Panther movements, there was a young, twenty-year-old man who could bring people together with his speeches and actions. That young man was Fred Hampton. Fred Hampton had memorized many of his predecessors’ speeches and aimed to help unite the world and protect the disenfranchised. He helped create the Rainbow Coalition, which was composed of the Black Panthers, the Young Lords (Puerto Ricans), Young Patriots (poor white workers), and many others. As soon as the American government heard about this, J. Edgar Hoover sought a man who could bend and eliminate his morals for his own self-preservation; that young man was William O’Neal. William O’Neal infiltrated the Black Panther Party and sought to get close to Fred Hampton. O’Neal helped the CIA assassinate Fred Hampton by revealing his location, diagramming the floor plan of their residency, and ultimately drugging Fred Hampton. William O’Neal revealed his truth years later and committed suicide the same day. During this time, many more men in different cultures were doing the same act of betrayal. Fidel Castro sold out Che Guevara to the United States of America in order to gain his dictatorship. Cesar Chavez also was idolized as a revolutionary for the Chicano/a rights, but what history failed to remind people was that Cesar Chavez longed for glory and hated Mexicans, some of whom were his ancestors. This internalized hate has remained and flourished with the propagation of white supremacy. Self-hatred is venomous, and with the growth of modern technology, it has easily reached its target audience, like Chicanos and first generation American born Latinx people who try to assimilate to a white supremacy. “Even beyond needing native Spanish-speakers, Cortez said, Latinx agents’ ethnic identities are weaponized in carrying out ICE surveillance and raids” (Sharkey 2020). Back in Trump’s first term, journalists and professors saw the rise of Latinx employees for I.C.E. They failed to realize that they were solely recruited because they could match and betray their own communities. Now, in Trump’s second term, it is even more apparent how far their venomous hatred has infiltrated, from the kidnapping and murders of immigrants and their families to the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. These brainwashed I.C.E. agents think that the system will help them in their times of need, but they fail to see how the trap encapsulates them, as well. The white agent who murdered Renee Good has returned to work; however, the two Latino men who murdered Alex Pretti have not. Once more, some men yearned for a mirror that will never reflect them.

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     George Orwell was the first to warn of this method of manipulation in his novel, Animal Farm. “At first no one had been able to imagine where these creatures came from, but the problem was soon solved: they were the puppies whom Napoleon had taken away from their mothers and reared privately” (Orwell 1996). This quote shows how nobody can fully take note of the insidious nature of propaganda, especially when it comes from the government. When Affirmative Action was dissolved, the first warning bells rang in the United States, but society failed to see the future harm. Then, radical alt-right groups claimed that Critical Race Theory courses were a detriment to society. However, anthropology and sociology allow for people to find the history of their cultures and how their ancestors fought for the rights that they now have. Chicanos, especially those in I.C.E. and Homeland Security, fail to recognize their own privileges and try to pull the ladder up behind them. “Cortez noted the agents sought work in immigration enforcement for similar reasons to why many immigrants leave Latin America and try to come to the U.S. They were looking for a better life” (Murillo 2020). The cruel irony is that Latin Americans who fall prey to fascist rhetoric yearn for empathy when they themselves cannot offer it to others.

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     Many first-born, like singer Becky G, and later generations of Latin Americans have heard the phrase: “Ni de aquí; ni de allá.”  Children of immigrants face cultural separation, sometimes outright and other times in a subliminal format. For example, in the Chinese community, they call their first-born generation children, “ABC.” In the Mexican culture, “gabacho,” which has a slightly derogatory meaning, is often used as an identifier for American born children. While there are universal terms for the first born children of different ethnicities and races, people fail to see the largest consequence of this action. Words carry more than sound and air; they carry meaning. Some of these children recognize this distance and feel detached to their parents’ culture. That is dangerous, because this is where culture vultures, in the form of fascist and racist political and wealthy, white elites, can manipulate this distance to their own advantage. When a culture fails to embrace and merge with a younger generation, then the culture starts to fade and become extinct. Rather than focusing on the distance and differences, cultures should embrace their distant born descendants, after all, they can continue the culture and even expand it further.

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     George Orwell gave this warning back in 1945, which has been labelled an allegorical novella. When children are robbed from their parents and their culture, they become vulnerable and susceptible to dangerous, manipulative culture vultures. These past two decades have shown it more clearly than others, whether it is a large percentage of Latin Americans in I.C.E. or the double family kidnappings that the Trump Administration did both in the past at the border and now in detention centers at current times. Change cannot occur on idle hands and feet, but rather people uniting and reminding each other of their own agency. Animal Farm did not have a happy ending, but it never said that it was the conclusive end either. Human beings have the possibility to grow and change, just like the field of anthropology. Anthropology had its roots in racist pseudoscience, but challengers, like Dr. Franz Boas, paved the way for using science to unite human beings and remind everyone of their equality. In order to combat racism and internalized hatred, exposure to knowledge and facts can cure every delusion and lie spread by dictators and fascists.

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