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The Hidden Reality of Street Windshield Cleaners · Libro Abierto Interviews ENGLISH

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  Speaker 1: They cursed at us, they try to run us over. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they almost want to hit us with their cars. And honestly,
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  Speaker 1: we take a lot of risks out here cleaning cars
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  Speaker 1: on the street.
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  Speaker 2: And what's your favorite subject? What?
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  Speaker 3: What's that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, sometimes they throw things at the car because they
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  Speaker 1: think we're going to rob them, things like that.
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  Speaker 4: No, you've brat, idiot, I told you no, damn winshield washer.
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  Speaker 1: If not for being one, no one knows what you
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  Speaker 1: go through and they always criticize you. I wish I
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  Speaker 1: could work at anything else, anything but being here basically
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  Speaker 1: begging for a pesto.
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  Speaker 5: It's not like we're out there doing something.
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  Speaker 2: Else hurting people.
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  Speaker 5: But no, none of that.
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  Speaker 1: For rich people, any kind of work we do is
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  Speaker 1: bad in their eyes. They've gotten out of their cars,
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  Speaker 1: they've attacked us. Many people have even pulled weapons on
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  Speaker 1: us just to keep us from coming near them.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, could you please tell me your full name? Me?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, No, that's not the name.
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  Speaker 2: I told you Yolanda.
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  Speaker 5: No, that's not my name.
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  Speaker 1: It's Joanna, Joanna Miranda Cruz. How old are you twenty six?
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  Speaker 2: And are you married? And do you have children?
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  Speaker 5: I just have two children. Uh, huh, I want to
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  Speaker 5: support two children.
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  Speaker 1: He is one of seven children and one of not
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  Speaker 1: a tiny four month old infant.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and do you live alone with them or with
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  Speaker 2: someone else?
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  Speaker 5: With my sisters right now who are supporting me.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, can tell us what do you do for a living?
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  Speaker 5: To sell can to sell candy or go around cleaning?
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  Speaker 2: What do you clean, Yolanda?
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  Speaker 5: These cars?
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  Speaker 2: You mean Winch winchshields, windshields?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Can you tell me what your level of education is?
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  Speaker 2: How far did you go in school?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Well, none, because I don't have any schooling.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, how did you end up working in this?
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  Speaker 5: It's because one of my friends invited me. That's why
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  Speaker 5: I ended.
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  Speaker 1: Up here working here at this moment. And before that,
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  Speaker 1: I worked in a house doing cleaning.
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  Speaker 2: And where do you do that clean?
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  Speaker 5: Honestly?
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  Speaker 1: Here on the street, because when I'm locked up over there,
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  Speaker 1: I really don't make much money here on the streets.
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  Speaker 2: Better, So tell me your difficult job often needs that
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  Speaker 2: people treat you they poorly and disrespectful me.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sometimes they even kick us out with harsh words.
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  Speaker 1: They even insult us, They curse at us just for
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  Speaker 1: cleaning their car. Well, sometimes they insult us. They almost
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  Speaker 1: run us over with their cars. I mean, they practically
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  Speaker 1: want to hit us. And honestly, we take a lot
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  Speaker 1: of risks out here on the street cleaning cars.
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  Speaker 2: And you why do you think it bothers people so much?
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  Speaker 1: Well, maybe because, honestly, I don't really know why they
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  Speaker 1: get so upset. Maybe we offend them by spraying water
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  Speaker 1: if they don't want it.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think about society, about people, about the world.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think? What are people like?
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  Speaker 1: Well, there are some good people and there are some
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  Speaker 1: bad people. There are people who give us a hand
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  Speaker 1: and support us out on the street, and there are
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  Speaker 1: some people, well, bad people.
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  Speaker 5: Don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you think people should have more empathy for
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  Speaker 2: your work? Where?
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  Speaker 6: Excuse me, why do you think people should take more
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  Speaker 6: time to consider you and your work and try to
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  Speaker 6: be a bit less well, less mean to you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, because that's what we want, for people to stop
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  Speaker 1: behaving badly like they do now. Honestly, we just want
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  Speaker 1: people to give us a hand more to help us,
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  Speaker 1: and we don't want them to offend us like that.
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  Speaker 2: And if you could say something to change the way
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  Speaker 2: people see your work, what they think about what you
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  Speaker 2: do what would you tell them.
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  Speaker 5: Well that I'm not stealing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm working, honestly, you know, to feed my kids right
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  Speaker 1: that I needed right now.
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  Speaker 5: Honestly, if someone.
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  Speaker 1: Offered me a job, I would work with the people
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  Speaker 1: who talk to me, you know, yes.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me, do you still have your parents with you?
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  Speaker 1: My father passed away and my mother too. Well, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: right now it's just me and my kids, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: with my sisters.
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  Speaker 2: And the father of your children.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the father of my children right now, he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: want to take responsibility for my kids right now, so
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  Speaker 1: to speak.
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  Speaker 5: I have to step up for the two kids I have.
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  Speaker 1: I mean to support my children, and right now, one
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  Speaker 1: of them is the one helping me out, my daughter
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  Speaker 1: and they.
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  Speaker 2: Your sister takes care of your kids while you work.
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  Speaker 1: One of them, my niece helps me by taking care
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  Speaker 1: of my kids.
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  Speaker 2: You like what you do?
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  Speaker 5: Honestly, No, honestly no.
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  Speaker 2: What would you like to do if you had the
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  Speaker 2: chance to choose? What would you like to do?
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  Speaker 1: Well, work at home again and so on, because that
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  Speaker 1: way I can take better care of my children, look
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  Speaker 1: after them well, and give them more attention.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me something, if you had been given the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to study for a degree. Which specific field of study
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  Speaker 2: would you have chosen?
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  Speaker 1: Well, whatever it is, the point is to study, to
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  Speaker 1: put effort into my studies. But right now the truth
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  Speaker 1: is I practically have no education.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what's your biggest dream? And what do you think
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  Speaker 2: about the future?
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  Speaker 5: Well, to get ahead, to give it my all for
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  Speaker 5: my children.
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  Speaker 2: What is your name?
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  Speaker 5: Mild mine?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Primary?
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  Speaker 3: Primary?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? Uprated primary?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: And what's your favorite subject? What?
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  Speaker 5: What's that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, to be honest, I'm not entirely sure. Maybe difficult
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  Speaker 2: math or a transpact? What do you like math? They
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  Speaker 2: tell me? Do you work? Yes? What do you work?
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  Speaker 1: I spend my days asking people for spare change, and
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  Speaker 1: I also try to sell some candy on the side.
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  Speaker 2: And do you like working? Yes, you do? And who
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  Speaker 2: do you come to work with? Do you come by yourself?
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  Speaker 2: Or who do you come with? With?
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  Speaker 5: My mom?
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  Speaker 2: And does your mom also work cleaning and selling?
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  Speaker 3: Yes? She does?
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  Speaker 2: And do you live only with your mom or who
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  Speaker 2: else do you live with?
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  Speaker 5: Together with my mom and my dad?
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  Speaker 2: And do you have any brothers or sisters?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 1: Just you?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, tell me about it. How often do you work?
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  Speaker 2: Do you work every day or only on weekends? Or
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  Speaker 2: how often do.
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  Speaker 1: You work every day except Sunday?
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  Speaker 2: And what time do you work what? How is it
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  Speaker 2: work at seven since seven in the morning?
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  Speaker 5: No, we arrive at eight and we leave at seven.
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  Speaker 2: What do people treat you badly when you try to
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  Speaker 2: clean their windshields or sell them something? Are there people
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  Speaker 2: who treat you badly? No? Has no one ever treated
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  Speaker 2: you badly? Do they always treat you well? Yes? Do
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  Speaker 2: they always give you money?
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Or do they ever tell you no? Yes? Yes? And
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  Speaker 2: when they tell you no, are they not? No?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 2: And they usually give you bills, they give you coints,
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  Speaker 2: points points Yeah. Do you have any dreams in life?
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  Speaker 2: What do you want to be when you grow up? Doctor? Doctor? Yeah? Hello?
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  Speaker 5: Hello?
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  Speaker 2: What is your name?
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  Speaker 5: Angelica?
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  Speaker 2: Angelica? How old are you my love?
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  Speaker 5: Fourteen?
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  Speaker 2: Ports Wow? Tell me who do you live with with?
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  Speaker 7: My mother, my father and all of my siblings.
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  Speaker 2: How many siblings do you have?
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  Speaker 3: Three?
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  Speaker 2: And do they all work with you? Yes? Yes?
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  Speaker 7: So are they little boys or girls? And all three
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  Speaker 7: of you work here from the set's bread and your
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  Speaker 7: mom too?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? Yeah, okay, my love? Tell us what you do?
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  Speaker 2: What your job is? What you do, explain to us
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  Speaker 2: what you do for work.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I go to school.
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  Speaker 5: I don't work. I go to school.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, very good. What grade are you in?
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  Speaker 5: I'm in middle school?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah. And what's your favorite subject to study?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I've always enjoyed studying, you know, little things like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, like what do you like the most?
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  Speaker 3: I like to study what's it called?
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  Speaker 5: Oh? I don't remember, that's what she said.
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  Speaker 2: All right, that is very good. And out here working
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  Speaker 2: on these busy streets, tell us you spend your time
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  Speaker 2: cleaning windshields. But what else do you do? Do you
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  Speaker 2: sell things?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 7: Well no, sometimes I just come to sit there because
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  Speaker 7: I don't work.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, okay, okay. Well, and when you're here, how do
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  Speaker 2: people treat you?
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  Speaker 7: Well, sometimes they throw various things at the car or
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  Speaker 7: even place them on the.
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  Speaker 2: Front windshield or I mean, are people rude to you? Yes?
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  Speaker 2: And how do you feel when people are rude to you?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it feels bad.
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  Speaker 2: It feels bad. And what would you like to say
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  Speaker 2: to the people who treat you badly? Well?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I just wish people would stop treating others like
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  Speaker 7: that and be humble.
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  Speaker 2: And regarding the work your parents do, since they clean
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  Speaker 2: windshields and sell things on the street. Do you think
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  Speaker 2: people treat them badly out there?
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  Speaker 6: Well?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, sometimes?
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  Speaker 2: Really what do they do to them?
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  Speaker 7: Well, sometimes they drive the cars at them.
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  Speaker 2: They do things to them, sell them. Yes, it's what
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  Speaker 2: kind of insults like.
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  Speaker 5: They yell at them, things like that.
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  Speaker 2: And what do your parents do? Doesn't it make them
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  Speaker 2: feel bad?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, they don't say anything bad, They just leave the place.
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  Speaker 2: And why do you think people get so bothered when
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  Speaker 2: someone comes up to clean their windshields.
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  Speaker 6: Because they think we're going to rob them?
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  Speaker 5: Things like that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, if you could tell people to change the way
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  Speaker 2: they think and feel about those who clean windshields and
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  Speaker 2: sell things on the street, what would you say to
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  Speaker 2: them so they change their mindset and start treating them? Well,
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  Speaker 2: what would you.
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  Speaker 7: Tell them they should change their attitude? And well that
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  Speaker 7: they should stop yelling at people because they were humbly?
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  Speaker 2: What is your biggest dream?
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  Speaker 5: Those are my parents?
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  Speaker 2: What about your parents? Okay, but when you grow up,
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  Speaker 2: what would you like to be?
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  Speaker 7: I would like to be a doctor. Oh really, because
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  Speaker 7: I like how they work. Things like that about being
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  Speaker 7: a doctor appealed to me.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we wish for you to become a doctor. No, hi,
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  Speaker 6: what is your name? My name is Bernis Bevernice. Could
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  Speaker 6: you tell me how old you are? Exactly number eighteen?
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  Speaker 6: And do you go to school? No, you don't go
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  Speaker 6: to school.
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  Speaker 2: How long has it been since you last went from
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  Speaker 2: two years ago? All right? Then? Could you tell me
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  Speaker 2: what was the very last year that you attended school?
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  Speaker 6: This marks the beginning of the second year of secondary
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  Speaker 6: fear for all the students.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and tell me why did you stop studying?
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  Speaker 6: Because my family needed money and I had to help them.
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  Speaker 2: That is fine? And who is it?
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  Speaker 3: Well? I used to live with my mom, but my
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  Speaker 3: mom just passed away.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, don't tell me. She passed away on John on
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  Speaker 2: January twenty nine.
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  Speaker 3: Just now, yes, from January?
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  Speaker 2: Wow? And what did he die? Of?
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  Speaker 3: A respiratory arrests?
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  Speaker 6: And right now I live alone with my children with
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  Speaker 6: who with my baby?
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  Speaker 2: I have a baby?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: And the father of your baby doesn't live with you?
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  Speaker 6: No?
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  Speaker 2: And does he take care of him either alone? Get
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  Speaker 2: through it, your baby? And who will take care of
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  Speaker 2: it for you?
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  Speaker 3: One of my cousins is taking care of him for
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  Speaker 3: me right now?
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  Speaker 2: Okay? And how old is your baby?
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  Speaker 3: And the baby is two years old.
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  Speaker 2: Two years I dropped out of school. Did your baby's
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  Speaker 2: father and a maker? Yes? He left he's irresponsible.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, No, I don't know. He doesn't take responsibility.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really sorry, truly. Well, tell me what do you
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  Speaker 2: do for work?
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  Speaker 3: Right now?
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  Speaker 6: I'm working with my cousin that sucks bakery, but just
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  Speaker 6: for today because I have to go take care of
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  Speaker 6: my baby. They don't want to take care of him
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  Speaker 6: for me anymore.
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  Speaker 2: And what else do you do? So right now you're
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  Speaker 2: selling bread at the.
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  Speaker 6: Before I used to work helping a lady with whatever
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  Speaker 6: she needed, or sometimes selling peanut bee.
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  Speaker 2: And now that you're going to stop selling bread on
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  Speaker 2: the street, what are you going to do for work? No?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I won't be able to work. I have to
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  Speaker 3: take care of my baby.
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  Speaker 2: I understand. And how are you going to manage to
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  Speaker 2: eat and feed your baby?
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  Speaker 3: Well, my aunts say they're going to help me.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's really nice of them. Does your aunt work
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  Speaker 2: here at the traffic light?
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: What does your aunt do?
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  Speaker 3: My aunt cleans windshields.
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  Speaker 2: I see. Hey, now that you've experienced working on the street,
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  Speaker 2: how do people treat you? Well?
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  Speaker 6: Honestly, there are a lot of people who are really rude.
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  Speaker 6: And there are others who are actually nice, but most
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  Speaker 6: people are very very strict.
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  Speaker 2: And what kind of rude things do they say to you?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, like no, you stupid girl, I told you no, no,
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  Speaker 6: go away, you damn beggar.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. In other words, because people don't consider
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  Speaker 2: this to be a job.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, they see it as they tell us you're old
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  Speaker 6: enough to work now. I mean, but we are working.
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  Speaker 6: It's just that because of my job, and because I
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  Speaker 6: didn't finish my studies, they can't give me a study job,
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  Speaker 6: because if it were up to me, I'd already be
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  Speaker 6: working somewhere else.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, Hey, why do you think people get so
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  Speaker 2: bothered by people to sell things on the street.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's because there are some people who honestly take
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  Speaker 6: things or play mean tricks on others. And that's why
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  Speaker 6: all the older folks end up thinking we're all the same.
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  Speaker 2: I understand you. What do you think about society? Do
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  Speaker 2: you think society is good or do you think it's bad? Well,
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  Speaker 2: it's both good and bad at the same time. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: what specific ways do you think it's bad? And in
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  Speaker 2: what other ways do you think it's actually good?
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's good because some people help you, and it's
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  Speaker 6: bad because nobody really knows what you're going through and
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  Speaker 6: they always judge you.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you personally think that people should have much
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  Speaker 2: more empathy for this challenging kind of street.
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  Speaker 3: Because they say they will.
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  Speaker 6: I think that that they have money and can enjoy
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  Speaker 6: everything they want, but we don't.
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  Speaker 3: We have many needs.
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  Speaker 2: In other words, you have the perception that people who
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  Speaker 2: are in a park and buy whatever they want. Uh huh,
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  Speaker 2: what if I told you that's not true? Well, would
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  Speaker 2: you believe me? Isn't that right? Would you believe me?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 6: Maybe yes, because there are several people who have a car,
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  Speaker 6: and there are a lot of people who have a
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  Speaker 6: car and have money, and there are people who have
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  Speaker 6: a car a car and don't have money.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, beautiful, if you could make people change the way
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  Speaker 2: they see you all who work on the street, how
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  Speaker 2: would you help them change their way of thinking?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'd want them not to think that we're all
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  Speaker 6: the same, that we all have bad habits, because some
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  Speaker 6: are different and some are worse. Right, But I'd say that, well,
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  Speaker 6: they should help us and not be bad people. You
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  Speaker 6: know that they shouldn't be rude that they could just
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  Speaker 6: say no, thank you, not that they should cause at us.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Okay, do you like what you do? Well? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: if you could do something else, what would you do?
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  Speaker 2: What kind of work would you like to do?
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  Speaker 6: I really like well, I've always wanted to do nails,
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  Speaker 6: be a stylist, and cut hair.
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  Speaker 2: So if you could study for a career, it would
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  Speaker 2: be that to be a stylist.
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  Speaker 5: Uh huh.
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: Yes, okay, And so is that your biggest dream to
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: be a stylist? Yes?
• 14:20
  Speaker 6: Right now I don't have my mother anymore. She was
• 14:22
  Speaker 6: the one who helped me, but now she's no longer
• 14:24
  Speaker 6: with us.
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: So are you said about your mom's passing?
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: Do you think you'll ever stop being said?
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: No?
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: Hello?
• 14:32
  Speaker 5: Hello?
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: What's your name?
• 14:33
  Speaker 5: Loupe?
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: Lupe? Yes, hello Lupe, nice to meet you. Tell me
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: how old are you?
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: Forty five?
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: Are you married? And do you have children?
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: So you are married, that's right. And do you have children?
• 14:46
  Speaker 5: Yes, number three?
• 14:48
  Speaker 8: How old are they one one is fifteen three years
• 14:51
  Speaker 8: old and twenty five?
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: And do they depend on you financially?
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: Yes, all of them?
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: And does your husband work fool yes, very well, so
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: do the five of you live together, yes, with more people, No,
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: just us alone. Tell us what you do and where
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: you work.
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: I'm a merchant.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: What do you sell and where?
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: I sell candy here in Baranta delmerto.
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: That is very well. Hey, I was wondering if you
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: could tell me how you ended up working out here
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: on the street selling candy.
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: Since when we've been working here for a long time?
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: Now? Really how long?
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: About ten years more or less?
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: Okay? And how did you end up working there? Who
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: invited you or how did it happen?
• 15:32
  Speaker 8: It was mainly because of some of my closest friends,
• 15:35
  Speaker 8: just some really great friends of mine.
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: They told you come, they told you to leave.
• 15:38
  Speaker 8: Yes, they invited me to work, and here I am
• 15:40
  Speaker 8: at the traffic light because of her.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: Hey, tell us up to what grade did you get
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: in school?
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: I finished third grade in elementary school.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Now, well, it seems your job often comes with people
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: treating you quite badly and being very disrespectful. They are
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: rude to you.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: Yes, honestly, they've done it many time. They roll up
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: the window on us. They they tell us, no, there
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: are times when they've they've insulted us.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Yes, what kinds of things have they said.
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: To you no rude, get out of here?
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: And do you say anything? But they are rude to you.
• 16:13
  Speaker 8: No, I just keep going and I tell them, well,
• 16:15
  Speaker 8: may God bless you.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: And that's it. And what what I mean, why do
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: you think it's Father's people so much?
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: Well, I don't know. Well, you do it just to
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: be able to put food on.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: The table, right, that's all for the sake of our children,
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: without hurting anyone, without bothering people.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: Hey, and why do you think people should have.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: Well, because I'm not doing anything wrong, am I? What
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: am I doing? I'm simply just doing I don't think
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: my job is bad, right.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Hey, what do you think about society? Do you think
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: society is good or bad?
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: Well, it has exposed and funds. Because I'm not going
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: to say that everyone is bad or that everyone is good.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: I mean there are some good people and others who
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: get bothered by everything, right.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And what would you like to say to those
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: people for rude and get upset about everything.
• 17:05
  Speaker 8: Well, we do it with the purpose of bringing food
• 17:07
  Speaker 8: home without bothering anyone, without hurting anyone above all, right,
• 17:11
  Speaker 8: I mean, our goal is.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: To put bread on the table without offending anyone much lessing.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Else it would be bad if we were out there
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: causing trouble or something else, right, hurting people.
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: But no, nothing like that.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: Hey, if you could do whatever you wanted, work at
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: whatever you wanted, what would you do? Can work?
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: Well, I'd like to work at anything, anything at all,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: except being here, you know, begging for a few pasos, right,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: anything and cleaning whatever it might be, as long as
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: people respected it.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Yes, if you had had the opportunity to study a career,
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: which one would you have chosen?
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: A teaching career? Right to teach children?
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: Yes, honestly, yes, Oh that's nice.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Are you worried about the future. How do you see
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: the future? Do you see it as something worrisome, something bad,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: or something new.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Something worrisome for the children because for us, well, we're
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: already on our way out.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: But those who come after us the ones.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: We really worry about, right, I mean, especially in our case,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: we have a lot of children in our care. I
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: wouldn't like it if in the future they ended up
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: following the same example as us here at the traffic light.
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: No, we wouldn't like that. Well, at least I personally wouldn't.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, what's your name? Danet Bernie got it nice
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: to teach you. How old are you?
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: I'm twenty nine years old, twenty nine?
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Are you married?
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Do you have children? Yes? How many? Who? How old
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: are they?
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: I have a six year old boy and a three
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: year old girl?
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: And do your children live with you? Yes? And do
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: they depend on you financially?
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah? That sounds really good to me and I agree.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Tell us what you do for?
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: I am a street vendor? Where at theatro in Sucente?
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Okay? And what things do you say?
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: All kinds of Mexican sweet?
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: And how are you doing? Are you doing okay? More
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: or less? Well?
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: There are good days and like everything, bad days too.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Hey there, I was wondering what grade did you actually
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: go up to? Each school?
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: I actually stopped at the sixth grade.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: And tell me how did you become a street vendor,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: a street merchant? How did you end up working?
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: Yea, My whole family does this. This goes back to
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: when we were kid.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: We started working here as lid, my aunt's, my cousins, everyone,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: my parents work here.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: We all work here. So that's how it started. It
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: came from family.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: It's their family's livelihood.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: That is exactly what we do.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: It is what our whole family.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Does very well. Well, I've noticed that a lot of
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: times it's very bad work. Tell me what kind of
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: things do they do?
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: Well? They look down on us, But I feel like
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: our work isn't bad, right? Why do you feel your
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: work isn't bad because we don't insult anyone. We don't
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: insult anyone. And maybe they see it as bad because
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: they see us poorly dressed or well the way we
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: look a lot of times they tell us not to
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: come near, or they roll up their windows. Many times
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: they've even pulled us or tried to push us away
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: with their cauts just so we don't come close. They've
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: gotten out of their cars, they've assaulted us. Many people
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: have even pulled out weapons just to keep us from
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: coming near them.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: And what have you done when they're treaching like that? Well?
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: Nothing really, We just walk away and move to the side.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: So have they pulled weapons on here? Yes? And does
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: to scare you?
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Well? Yes, it scares us. And it's not just me.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: Almost my whole family here feels the same way, including
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: my nieces who are young, and my cousins. They've even
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: pulled weapons on us and told us not to come near.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: They're showing us guns.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Hey, and do you live far from here?
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: How far?
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: Well, no, it's not that far. We're from ac A Depec.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: And how long does it take you to get here?
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: About two hours? Two and a half hours.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: What do you think about society? Do you think it's
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: good or bad?
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Well? No, I think that a lot of times we
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: make it bad ourselves, don't we because of the people
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: I'm telling you about the things they do to us.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: A lot of times. You also get tired of being
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: looked down on. And that's also why some people end
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: up doing bad things because for them, for wealthy people,
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: any kind of work we do is seen as bad.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: If we're out selling handy in an organized way, that's bad.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: If we're doing other things, that's also bad to them.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: So I think it's the people themselves who make things
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: this way, don't you think?
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Hey there, tell me, do you actually like what you do?
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: Well?
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: Yes, I do like it because thanks to this, even
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: though people look down on us, I can put food
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: on the table for my kids, my mom and my home.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Of course. And if you could work in anything you wanted,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: what would you do?
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: I would have liked to be a nurse. A nurse
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: why to help people? To kill people and help them.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: I feel that job really helps people a lot. It
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: takes away many, many illnesses and a lot of pain.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: I would have liked to be a nurse. Do you
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: see it as something uncertain or does the future worrying?
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: Well, the future worries me because my child is in it.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: My children are in it, But.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: It doesn't worry me that much because that's what I'm
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: here for, to give them an education. I feel that
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: the best gift and the best thing a parent can
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: give their children is an education so they can become
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: someone in life and not end.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Up like me.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: I didn't have an education. My parents never gave me one.
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: So that's what I'm doing with my six year old son,
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: giving him an education so he can be better than me.