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My own personal culture

When you identify some activity which you feel comfortable, something that give you happiness or just peace, you going to try to do that most of the time; and if people around you begins to see you doing that, then they going to recognize you on that activity.  

It is like (for example) whenever I see something related to anime, at once I remember an old friend who was crazy for those things. Or my other friend who liked the poetry and she lived on function of it. Your personal culture begins to be part of your personality, and you going to act according to. 

Actually I'm mad for the books, all my friends know that. And when they hear about a new writer or book that they know going to like me, they try to show me it. It feel awesome to know you are doing what you want, and that is not a problem for anybody. Those are your likes, your hobbies, is your business and nobody else's. Criticism of it, by other people is not important, as long as they have no foundation.

Have a personal culture is also like be different for the rest of the people. Something that identify you, and can change the way other people see you.

Violence against afro-colombian people

Because of Colombia's history, this is a multicultural country. On it, is common recognize differences between their population. One of the easier to see is the difference on the skin colour between each other. 

The afro-colombians are an ethnic group inside the country, who are characterized for been of dark complexion. For this reason and for the intolerance of some people accustomed to see to the other people like inferior,  they have been victim of the violence,  

The afro-colombians are (generally or in majority) poor people, who are living on extremes conditions, or on violence's zone. This have reinforced the stereotype that they are just people without education, or not visionaries. Sometimes the goverment forget them at all. For that reason, is constitutional to take their judgements into account and all the social circles. To be a minority or from an ethnic group, doesn´t mean that you don´t have rights. 

Marta is an afro-colombian little girl. She is not studying, because when she was on the school she was attacked by her classmates for her skin's colour. When all those guys grow up, they going to still thinking that is right to treat on that way to someone who is your equal. It doesn't matter how different they look like. 

The violence related to the discrimination, is not easily educable. Even more if it is learned from the childhood. Is important to detect on time, to teach values about it. We need to work about this topic. Eradicate the violence against afro-colombian people, is recognize them like part (an important part) of our society, is the opportunity to recognize how much they have been contributed for the develop of  our society, and how vulnerables they are. 

Barranquilla's Carnival

This is my first time on Barranquilla during the carnivals. And my friends and family said me that this was the best chance to "enjoy the carnival" 

But I was thinking on something that wanted time ago. These four days was reserved for visit my family. 

It was like a type of "vacations" on Cartagena. On friday I traveled to the city (after a very "interesting and profitable" unplanned algebra class) on the road, I listened music and I slept a little. My dad was waiting for me on Crespo, and then of a very big hug, he took me to my house. 

There was my mother and my grandma (who were very happy to see me) but there no was food, so (like the last year, I made the dinner. I have to admit that I don't miss that so much) 

On the next days I just was walking with my family on the malls of the city, and I visited to my uncles.

Also I could see some of my friends. I was very exciting, and I felt like in home again.

On tuesday I back to Barranquilla to studying for the calcute partial and again I could feel the carnival ambient. That's nice, the people was very excited for the Joselito's dead. I've never see the people so happy at a funeral. lol. 

American man teaching English in Uganda

It's difficult to be in a different culture. Even more if we don't know how is its life style.
On the "American man teaching English in Uganda" story, we can identify two differents points of view on two differents ways of life.
The white, and the black man points of view.
For the first side we can recognize, those kind of people that is used to life on the free society. Where all is easier. The white man, for example, work at home, accustomed to the quiet place. Trying to understand why the black man works so hard. He doesn't know what think the black man, or what he needs to do for survive.

They couldn't communicate each other because neither of them knows about their needs. And either was so focus on do what they do for survive on their ways. Obviously, they was educated on a dissimilar society.
One of them was needing just peace to do his work, at home. Knowing that he was doing well, and her "passive" work can give him all that he needs.
And the other one, just want/need for money. For food, for his other needs. By anyways, the important thing was to get it.

Egypt: a generation of revolutionaries

There is a  big difference between people that are comfortable with their life style (despite they live in a very bad conditions) and the people who are willing to defend and search a better life conditions. People who are noisy, people who walk and walk on the streets, looking for a new future. Maybe not their own future, but the future of their sons. 

Those people live on Egypt: a society that was ruled by a obsolete government. They were living on a society that prevented their liberties, when all around the globalizate world "had given" long ago. 

Hosni Mubarak, the president for a long time on that country, became the Egypt of the XXI century, in an almost exact replica of ancient Egypt. With all the package complete: the military power abuse, inocent people diying, bad economical conditions, and a strange (for us and common for the Egyptians) control of the liberties. 

The youths, tired of this situation, and mobilized by their naturally revolutionary spirit (with some help of Al-Qeda) took the streets on the Egyptian Revolution (25 january of 2011) and joined their voices with a common objetive: put a final to the "Mubarak's Republic" that's became in a monarchy. 

And that was what happened...Mubarak was finally resigned, and with him, his goverment. 

Maybe in a future, we will open our eyes, and see that maybe... just maybe, we are too many comfortable, with those "little things" that don't let us go forward. Yes!, exactly like the Egyptians. 

Introducing myself

I´m Adriana, a student from Universidad del Norte. This blog is an activity propose for my English teacher, who maybe is reading this. (Sorry if I don't write so well :)

I like this kind of things (to do a blog) I think its funny, specially because I spend a big part of my time on-line. I talk, and talk, and talk, a lot. But I can talk more if you give me some technological device.

Its not so much to say about me. I love read, specially if the book is about mmm... society. I guess.

I'm studying Industrial Engineering, this is my first semester. And, it is not to much to say about that.

My favorite book is "The picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. The best movie I have ever seen is "The seventh veil" despite that is a very old movie (194... and something) and its on black and white.

I tryed to play the piano, but I couldn't do it so good so... I left it.

I think my english is so bad, but I hope this is going to be better to the end of my semester.

Well... this is all I can say about me (with my own words) and about my life.

(...because my teacher told me that I'm writing a book. lol)