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We all have emotions and Sarah Ahmed in the article “Affective Economies” discusses how these emotions affects us as people and individuals. She examines how different emotions and feelings occur and how they make us do or think different things that sometimes can lead to unpleasant conclusion. On the other hand, good feelings and emotions can lead to resolution of some problems we face every day. Although, Sara Ahmed begins her article with a description of how the emotion of “hate” occurs towards people who are different. She says that hatred occurs not because someone thinks that the other one is different but because it threatens one’s stability in life. We as readers understand that Ahmed is making a parallel to a modern day problem in society of a certain country. She adds that these emotions lead to loathing and it becomes unstoppable because after a certain point this conviction that someone is bad cannot be changed.

Ahmed talks about immigrants also, she discusses that white people fell a certain negative emotion because immigrants come to their country and they take away their jobs and threaten their “purity” in a way. However, from the immigrants stand point, they probably don’t share “white people” opinion because they have their own problems to solve and threatening people is not in their agenda. Ahmed then goes to discuss the feeling of fear and that it always leads to some thoughtless actions. Thus, different emotions can make one’s life either better or worse. And, we as people are driven by emotions every single day. Our feelings and beliefs make us  create examples of caricatures of what is considered bad or good. So, we create images of a bad immigrant or a dangerous convict. It’s all in our head and it is hard to think logically and not be driven by emotions.