Pocahontas goes to the clinic.

I found this article to show some great examples of some things we touched on in class and some we did not. One point is when the author talks about how a large portion of African Americans go to low income clinics. Then she goes on to discuss how they are then untrusting of their doctors or unsatisfied with the care they receive. I found this interesting because of the information that was left out and how they just assumed it was because they were black or low income. Are African Americans the larger population in that area or is it another race but somehow they get better health care? She also did not mention if the other races that came into the clinic were just as unsatisfied with their doctors? As sad as it is to say your good doctors are not going to work in a free or low income clinic forever because they can not live off that, so basically you get what you pay for. A perfect example is to look at the military health system. Those doctors primary jobs are to be soldier's and then doctors. It is not know to be the best health care and has nothing to with race, gender, religion, or anything else.
This author displays ethnocentrism of the upper to middle class American very well. It is true that every little girl in America is familiar with a Disney princess but at $50 a dress, $20 a doll, or what?? for ticket they can not all "be" a princess. She also assumes that clinics across the world need that kind of comfort, bonding, or entertainment for children. I have been to a hospital and a women's clinic in Japan and believe it or not the children just do what they told. In my opinion the author chooses mainstream images to comfort children of other cultures because that is what she or her children are comforted by not because that is what comforts those children.