I found the video in class on Tuesday to be very interesting.  It's hard for me to believe that we as Americans felt that it was necessary and our place to go into Cuba and take control of their government and people without invitation.  One thing that I'm slowly learning from this class is that the United States always seems to think everyone else would love our help, when it's actually probably the other way around.  For Americans to go into Cuba and take control of a country where they clearly were not welcome is quite vain.  I find it very depressing that people have always, and some even still do today, found skin color to be such a differentiating factor in how people are looked at and treated.  For example, in the video when they were telling about how Puerto Rico was taken over by United States' and that even though the Puerto Ricans were technically U.S. citizens, they were not allowed to receive the same legal rights and advantages as citizens actually living in the states did.  They did this because the Americans saw Puerto Ricans as a lesser race than their own.  They were called names and Americans did terrible things to them, but for what reason?  Because they were from a different place?  To go even further with my point, Americans only wanted the Puerto Ricans to move to the United States because they were looking for cheap labor, and as soon as their labor wasn't of value to Americans anymore, they wanted them to leave, and even had the nerve to kick them out!  After the United States had gone into Puerto Rico, taken over their country, land and freedom, and they wanted to kick them out of their country just because they were taking up too many jobs.  Those facts were appalling to me.  I could never imagine if someone came and took over my home and then wouldn't "allow" me to come to their country because I wasn't "worthy" and because I was a different race than them.  How could anyone ever live with treating other humans this way??