Professor MIT criticizes Superman as the New York Times immigration symbol

a New York Times This week’s guest essay said Superman’s “overwhelming national power” is in the way, explaining a paradoxical identity associated with his iconic character as an immigrant.

“In fact, I was something of a neighbor’s anti-superman,” wrote Professor Junot Diaz. In the New York Timeslooking back at his childhood.

“I’m always ready to Invae against Crypton’s last son, and always ready with a long discussion laying out why he was stupid. What can I say?”

Diaz, native dominican republic Those who teach creative writing should “fall hard for Superman” as someone who speaks English while living in an apartment with a Spanish-speaking family. The superhero shares similar experiences with American immigrants, but Diaz, who maintains three identities, feels that Superman doesn’t represent him.

“From the first day, the guy rubbed me the wrong way. There were some obvious things like how the goofy Superman was like as a hero, how his star made fun of his awful patriotism. I’ve never seen it. My landfill was more of a supervillain territory,” he said.

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“Even his overwhelming national powers have hindered me, because I grew up in a country where I am recovering from my own dictatorial superman.

The immigration symbolism in Superman does not connect with Diaz, as both the character and the Americans contain “many contradictory stories”.

“You’d think that Superman’s immigrant/refugee background represented a point of connection, but you still ranked me,” he wrote.

Diaz argued that 2025 was a troublesome time for peace-loving refugee Americans like Superman to return to us. “We were a time when people like Clark Kent, an undocumented liberal journalist, were easily scooped out by masked, unidentified government fools. They were beaten, imprisoned, and even deported to Sudan or Jalhanpur without justice.”

First introduced in 1938, the character was born from the imagination of Cleveland, Ohio author Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster. Both came from immigrant families. In the cartoon, Superman is the only survivor of the planet Crypton, and his parents sent him to Earth in the face of destruction when their world was sent to Earth.

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