viernes, 14 de noviembre de 2014
sábado, 1 de noviembre de 2014
GRAFFITI
Graffiti is a new way of art, it's usually seen at streets in a lot of places over the world.
This new trend its used as a way to stand up for social causes and express uncomfortability in countries, this practice is getting stronger each day in spite of the fact that in some places is illegal.
Those paintings invite us to think about all the problems and try to leave a mark in everyone's minds so in that way they can generate a social change.
Between Colombia and some other countries in Latin America like El Salvador and also in North Africa there's not alot of difference about how this practice is perceived. In these places Graffiti is seen as a vandalism act and people dont get to see the beauty of the art and neither understand the hidden message in each paint.
In other countries like Brazil or Argentina, luckly, graffiti it's supported and admired by everyone and they give spaces to promote this practices.
Throught the years have been appearing some groups that try to defend this subculture and try to get everyone to see the beauty and generate changes in societies.
Graffiti it's a nice way to get the attention and focus people in their country problems
This new trend its used as a way to stand up for social causes and express uncomfortability in countries, this practice is getting stronger each day in spite of the fact that in some places is illegal.
Those paintings invite us to think about all the problems and try to leave a mark in everyone's minds so in that way they can generate a social change.
Between Colombia and some other countries in Latin America like El Salvador and also in North Africa there's not alot of difference about how this practice is perceived. In these places Graffiti is seen as a vandalism act and people dont get to see the beauty of the art and neither understand the hidden message in each paint.
In other countries like Brazil or Argentina, luckly, graffiti it's supported and admired by everyone and they give spaces to promote this practices.
Throught the years have been appearing some groups that try to defend this subculture and try to get everyone to see the beauty and generate changes in societies.
Graffiti it's a nice way to get the attention and focus people in their country problems
viernes, 17 de octubre de 2014
THAI GANGSTER.
Thai
gangster without a doubt are a clearly example of appropriation of external
cultures or subcultures, in this case.
We can see how they took something they saw over internet and they liked
so they started to practice or to follow that ideas, of course adding some
aspects of his own culture. We should learn from them to see the good in people,
in groups, in everything.
Everything
and everyone has their right and wrongs and we should appreciate and approach the
good to make us better persons.
I think you
can adopt other cultures ideas, believes or practices if you like them but
adding and quitting things on purpose to make it something you can claim as
yours, something that identifies you and everyone saw it and remember you immediately.
miércoles, 1 de octubre de 2014
RACISM.
Lately I’ve
been watching and reading about racism in my english class and I must say that
this is an important affair that should be dialogued and we have to find ways
to stop it.
People
nowadays talks about how “developed” society is, but a society to be developed
needs to be EQUAL and right now we are so far from that. It´s ridiculous that
we still letting behind people because the color of their skin. We have a lot
of stereotypes against black people and it’s not fair with them, sometimes we
don’t even give them opportunities to see if they are nice or if they are able
to do jobs that are considered important, we just push them away.
This is a
worldwide problem, also it’s happening in my local area but we tend to ignore
it or think it’s alright when clearly it's not. It’s sad how Afrocolombians are
abandoned when they provide a lot to the culture of our country. It’s sad how
we ignore them and we forget that a while ago that subculture fought for us and
for the country to be free.
We should
stop racism in our local areas. Colombians should stop discriminating
AfroColombians and start making them count.
viernes, 19 de septiembre de 2014
Who I Am
Hey! My name is Maria Fernanda Matera, Mafe, for short.
Everytime I have to introduce myself I feel kinda weird and I end up saying the same, so here I go.
Now I'm studying mass comunication and journalism because I like to edit audiovisual materials but mainly is because I really love to write and also read a lot. Politics is another of my passions too.
I've been loving these things since I was very little.
Another thing I love is music. I like a lot of bands and solo artist and I also like attend to concerts.
I really enjoy it!! Going to local cultural events is so cool too.
I love animals. I can't live without gummies and chocolate. My favorite food it's the Italian one.
I have wanderlust. I love the night so I stay up late and that's all about me by now (:
Everytime I have to introduce myself I feel kinda weird and I end up saying the same, so here I go.
Now I'm studying mass comunication and journalism because I like to edit audiovisual materials but mainly is because I really love to write and also read a lot. Politics is another of my passions too.
I've been loving these things since I was very little.
Another thing I love is music. I like a lot of bands and solo artist and I also like attend to concerts.
I really enjoy it!! Going to local cultural events is so cool too.
I love animals. I can't live without gummies and chocolate. My favorite food it's the Italian one.
I have wanderlust. I love the night so I stay up late and that's all about me by now (: