Do you want to send a message ? Paint a graffti...

In many place the graffiti is see like a vandalism act. In theory, the idea to paint in privacity or public propiety wall is illegal. But the people that practice, this have good intension. We can see graffiti in all the cities, specially in the capital cities, but in each city the imagines have different meaning.
In Colombia the majority of the graffiti is about the polical system amd about the violence, in this country the people want to express their non conformity about the situacion that the county live. In the other hand we appreciate imagines that show the multiculture, that we find in Colombia, a big example is see imagines inspire in indginous stuff.
Buenos Aries, Argentina is like a street art galery, there are a lot of graffiti around the city. This already is part of the culture, the people are agree with that, they say that this provide more joy to the city. There is a student that do city tours to show the touris the different paints. And like in another country the artist use them to show the reality about country, to show what is bad and how they want to change it.
In Honduras a country that is know for their violence, the graffiti is the way to say what they feel. The artist don't revelate their identidy for segurity, but the share the way to express their message.It's like other countries, is normal people that want to say their opinion and their ideas, and the goverment don't listen to them, and have share other ways to say.
I consider that graffiti is a form of noverbal comunication, and this have to be promote. But for real people that want to express ideas, no for people that use this with bad proposite, the art could be a projection about our soul and our sencivity, no ways to ofend and be vulgar. 

They Look Like A Gangsters, They Aren't Gangsters...

The Bankok's Mexican Gangster are a particular group, with a different way to show their style and their likes. When you hear Gangster, automatically you think in violence, drugs and another realacionate things. But these group of guys only want look like Mexican Gangsters and listen rap and hip hop music. They are a group of friends with the same likes, that they like wear white t-shirt and big jeans. They are normal people, teachers, police, family man, etc. They only appropiate the superficial aspects of the origianl Mexican Gangster, also they are aware about mexican gangster reality, they don't want to imitate this, they only want to spend time with they friends, and share their likes.
I think these people are just people that like look in this way and listen to a specific type of music, but in another hands if i'm mexican and i'm being affected by a group of gangster and see what the Bangoks's mexican gangster do, i will feel like, they are admiring something that generate many problems in the society. They aren't doing something bad but they are giving a relevance a this subculture, if to be a gangster is good.
If they want look like that, they can, but in my opinion they shouldn't call theirself Gangsters.

AfroLatinos

Latin America is a very diversity continent, we can find a lot of subculture. One of this is AfroLatinos. A culture with many history and traditions. But they have a cruel history, history that is repeat nowadays. The AfroLatinos descend to a slavery culture but this happened 200 year ago, and today there are people that still see afrolatinos like that. The most of the Latin America countries establish a iguality principle, but what happed with this principle that not is apply to afro people?.

I had the opportunity to see some videos about how afro people in differents countries are discriminate. The country and the society don't allow this people have their own development. I could see countries where this people don't have citizen and they can get a job or eduction. In countries like Ecuador, radio station transmitted offensive's song about the Afro.

In my opinion is time to stop this, they are people like us, they have the same rights and the same capacity. The society proclaims the iguality and is searching it, but set asaide this group of people, that have a lot a cuality and contribute to the countries identidy. 

I want to share this video about the racism in Peru 

http://youtu.be/doIH7gdT4HQ

 

Hi :)

Hello, my name is Lorena Mercado Gallego, i'm 18 years old. I'm industrial engineering's student at Universidad del Norte, in Barranquilla, Colombia. I'm from Santa Marta, i have lived here, until i gradueted from high school and i moved on Barranquilla,except for 4 years that i lived in Argentina, because my parents were studying. I love the math, in school always math was my favourite subject, and this is the reason why i decided to be engineer. My hobbie is swimming, i love the water, i think it's because i lived my entire life near to the beach and i go frecuently. i would like learn more aquatic sports. The world have different types of culture, with this blog i want to learn and teach some ideas about some culture that we can see in big and wonderful world in where live.