Mine injures Bang-Bang photographer

Hello friends! This time I will speak to you about titled news: Mine injures Bang-Bang photographer. It appeared in guardian.co.uk, Sunday 24 October 2010. After I will relate this news with anthropology, my future career.

What do say this news? It says that Joao Silva, war photographer, was badly hurt after stepping on mine in Afghanistan. João Silva, 44 years, is one of two surviving members of the Bang-Bang Club, a group of photographers who were celebrated for covering the violence in South Africa in the 1990s. Silva, in his life, has photographed conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, southern Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East. He is one of the most celebrated war photographers of his generation and has won many international awards for his work. This New York Times photographer was embedded with a unit of the US Army that had been trying to secure the routes into Kandahar, the hub of the Taliban-led insurgency and one of the most dangerous places in the country. No American soldiers were wounded in the explosion. Only Silva was injured and now he had been taken to Kandahar airfield, where he was receiving treatment. In this country, mines or improvised explosive devices are the main weapon used by the Taliban. They are cheap and easy to make but difficult to detect, and can be detonated by pressure or by remote control. It is believed that they have killed many of the almost 600 foreign troops to have died in the war so far this year, and have caused devastating injuries to survivors.

In my opinion, these wars are produced for crash of cultures and imperialism. Then anthropology must intervene for communicating two different cultures and so it must look for the peace. Anthropology must study both world visions, both cultures, because the wars happens when the humans don’t communicate us.

You can read this news in: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/24/war-photographer-silva-injured

What is your opinion?

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Hello friends! This time I will speak to you about the Mapuche conflict. I think that the situation is unacceptable.

When did this conflict start? We revise the History… When the Europeans arrived to Chile, in our country there were many cultures, such as atacameños, diaguitas, yaganes, picunches, mapuches, etc. Several this cultures have died today. And actually they have problems with their rights, for example, lands, culture, language, customs, discrimination and so on. In this moment, the discussion is about Mapuche’s demands. Mapuche people always was untamable people, they were never conquered for Spaniards, and after when Chile reached its independence started the problems, because the Chilean State needed to dominate all territory and the Mapuche still were free, then State send its Armed Forces and this form Mapuche lost their lands. Then, this conflict is historical and nobody has resolved.

And two weeks ago finished other Mapuche conflict. Mapuche prisoners were in hunger strike more than 90 days because they participated in protest in the fields (before these fields were their property) and they were captured and they were considered terrorists for Chilean law. The situation was untenable and the president decided to intervene and he chose government people for solving the problem. Finally, Mapuche won the battle and they will not be considered terrorists, although they suffered so much.

My opinion about the problem is Chilean State has forgotten the Human Rights with Mapuche people. Some Mapuche are not considered Chilean people them, they are Mapuche. And I think that they have that right and they should be free and they should choose Mapuche people or Chilean people. They shouldn’t be forced; they want to live in peace.

What are your opinions friends?

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Hello classmates! This time I will speak to you about what to do and where to go in Santiago, our city. Have you a foreign friend? If your answer is yes, then you tell her or his that she or he see this post! If your answer is no, then you believe in my words.

Santiago is a big city and it seems a boring place because in this city there aren’t mountains, sea, forest, field or lakes. However, Santiago is a capital and it has very interests place. A foreigner, if he or she want to know our history, he should go to National Historic Museum, this place is in the center city and there are many objects, scale models and sheets about our history. Other important museum, in my opinion is the Memory Museum in Quinta Normal, this is a museum about dictatorship and Human Rights in our country, is an emotional place. Then you also must go to Quinta Normal, there are many museums, parks, even an artificial lake in this place. Then you must rent a boat and you must navigate with your girlfriend. Other beautiful places is the small hills in the center Santiago, I am speaking to you about Santa Lucía and San Cristóbal. In San Cristobal Hill are a zoo and one cable railway. And if you want to drink alcohol, you must go to La Piojera, a popular tavern, and there you must drink one Terremoto, but you only must drink one Terremoto, I warned it to you… If you don’t like this place, then you must go to La Tuna and you must listen to Zalo Reyes…

What´s your opinion friends? And do you like Zalo Reyes?

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Braveheart!

Hello friends! This time I will speak to you about my favorite movie. Sincerely I don’t watch many movies because sometimes I think that I will waste my time if I don’t like the movie. But you don’t think that I have never watched a movie in my life, of course I have watched some movies, and my favorite is Braveheart.
Braveheart opened in 1995, Mel Gibson directed, produced and starring it, and this movie won five Oscar Awards. Barveheart is about the William Wallace’s life and the liberty of Scotland, who is dominated for England until 1314.
The English King, Edward I, was very cruel with Scottish people. Some William Wallace’s relatives and other people had died. The English people murdered and violeted many persons. They commited many abuses in Scotland. Then, William Wallace want to get the freedom of his country, so he begins to organize his people, he is decided to go to war. However, nothing was easy because some scots prefer to stay in their homes. But, William Wallace gets to create an army. They fight with English people many times and William Wallace is captured. The English soldiers hit and tortured him. They wanted that he repents, but he never gave up, so he is murdered and before he died he cried: Liberty!!
I like this movie because when I watched it I was entertained in all moment, furthemore, I like the history and popular topics.
Have you ever watched Braveheart? What do you think about it?
See you!

MEXICO!

Hello friends! How are you? We must rapidly write about other topic, so I will speak you about Mexico because I would like to go to this country, I think that Mexico is amazing and very interesting place.

Mexico is located in the north of our continent, America. It is a country with much history; many cultures lived there, for example, the Aztecs. After, the Spanish conquerors arrived and they killed many native people. Mexico was the most important Spanish colony together with Peru. Mexico also gets its liberty in the 19 century, as all American countries. Then, the revolution happens in Mexico; this was a revolution peasant-indigenous, and etc, etc. I already said it, Mexico is amazing.

Well, I would like to visit Mexico; I would like to be in its colonial constructions and its pyramids. But I also would like to live and work in Mexico. I know that it is not a safe place, however, in this country there are many social realities, there are indigenous, peasant, businessmen, poor people, rich people, revolutionaries, traffickers, etc. The social reality is very interesting, so I would like to study, work and help people through anthropologic in this country. Then I love Mexico.

And you, what do you think about Mexico?

See you the next class, friends!

My experiences during this first term!

Hello friends! Nice to meet you! This first time I will speak you about my experiences during this first term, so we will know us.
Uf!, the last semester was hard, because we lived an earthquake and we started the class later. When I was finished, I am really very tired, I only wished vacations and rain, much rain. However, I learned many things the last semester. The most useful was a subject named “Materialism”, after it I feel that now I can learn other things, how production modes, forces of producción, communism, revolution, State, etc. Also I learned about Ethnohistory, I learned more about the culture, about the “same” and the “other”, this is amazing! In this subject I had to go the National Library and I researched with old newspapers, but this was a bad experience because the National Library were a chaos, and I lost much timet here. My others subjects were Prehistory, Statics, French and Eglish.
With respect to sport, I didn’t practice, because I didn’t have time, I really was dying. I think that I played football twice, but I watch much football in the TV!, I enjoy with the FIFA World’s Cup, so I think that I am fatter…jaja…
After all, when I was finished the last semester I enjoyed and I went some parties, I drink some beer and I dance with my friends.
And that’s all folks.
See you soon! Good luck!

My blogging experience.

Hello friends! How are you? This time is the last and I will write about my blogging experience during this semester.

Sincerely, before this experience I knew nothing about blogs, I never had fotolog or facebook, for example, if you are very fortunate you ever see me en msn, because I don’t like the PC. However, this was a good experience.

I liked this experience because I knew many things about you, my classmates, sometimes these things were beautiful and sometimes are sad, but I liked this experience because I knew your experiences, thoughts, ideas, etc. And I am grateful you, thank you for sharing this things with me, with us.

Often I didn’t know what I would write and I had to think about a topic… So, I wrote about soccer, so much soccer, my favorite photograph, technology, earthquake, Malinowski, Víctor Jara and The Prisoners. My favorite blog that I write was about Victor Jara, simply I love him. I think that I forgot to write about Silvio Rodríguez, but I will do it the next time if our teacher wishes pass me. I like this type of music; I love the trova and the canto popular.

I liked to write in my blog when I do it in class, but I hated to do it in my house, because I didn’t have time, this university life…Uf! I always was busy and in this moments I am dying and I think that you also had many tests, projects, etc.

Finally, I always try to write according to what I though and I felt and I hope you had fun. And thank you for reading me; I know that, perhaps, sometimes, it was boring. And see you the next class when we will have our test, and I hope to see you the next semester and I also hope to pass level 3…jaja!

See you!