My own understanding of La facultad is an instinct reaction that we used for protect ourselves from threat or unknown. For example, people will freak out when they see a person who act wired in the bank because this person look like a suspect robber. When people encounter something or someone that whatever look suspect or unknown to them, their actions would be without unconsciousness. Rios illustrates this concept in "Translating Translation" by the stories that he states in his essay. First story is his mom wanted the kitchen’s wall to be yellow and she said limon to these Mexican workers. Although she tried to make a connection between those workers by spoke Spanish, workers couldn’t understand what limon means because what his mother wanted
