discriminación

Hace unas semanas Mike expuso algo sobre discriminación en sus muchas facetas. Checando lo siguiente en internet me recordó al punto tratado y a la clase:

ir a lo que lulú recordó

Nowhere in Africa

Hoy vimos la película Nowhere in Africa. Ya había visto esta película en alguna ocasión anterior. Siempre me gustó la forma de ser de la hija. Positiva y dispuesta a nuevas cosas. Creo que por eso es la que mejor se adapta al nuevo hogar, inmediatamente se hace amiga del cocinero, un negro que le enseña nuevas palabras, comida, etc. Además, está abierta a conocer a los niños del lugar y a tomar nuevas costumbres y actitudes frente al nuevo mundo. Tal vez es porque ella no tenía construida aún esa identidad alemana y lo que conlleva (costumbres, etc.)

La mamá por otro lado, al inicio está muy renuente al cambio pero al final se ubica muy bienen el lugar y quiere quedarse allí. El papá toma el cambio como algo innevitable pero siempre tiene el deseo de volver a Alemania.

Creo que es una historia muy clara, sobre las distintas formas de estar dispuestos al cambio y de adaptarse, ninguna es mejor que otras y cada una es un proceso válido para las personas.

Algo interesante...

Videos del NYTimes que muestra las reacciones de gente alrededor del mundo ya que Obama ganó.

Aquí

Sesión 13

Esta vez me tocó exponer a mi :) y a otras dos compañeras.
Mi tema fue The Global Village, y era una especie de conclusión de todo lo que hemos estudiado hasta ahora.



Para mí, esto es más o menos The Global Village, gente de culturas distintas, convivivendo juntos para trabajar y aprender. Nadie intenta imporner sus ideas, más bien cada quién aporta lo que puede e intenta crear un buen espacio de trabajo. El programa en el que trabajamos es básicamente autosustentable y respeta la cultura a la que llega. Los que asisten, no solamente llegan con la norma de respetar a los demás, sino que también permite el acercamiento a diferentes formas de pensar y vivir.





Me divirtió mucho el tema sobre como cada persona ve de manera distinta el tiempo, y lo que pasa cuando un individuo vive en un país opuesto a su forma de ser.

P-time stresses involvement of people and completion of transactions rather than adherence to preset schedules. ... For polychronic people, time is seldom experienced as "wasted," and is apt to be considered a point rather than a ribbon or a road, but that point is often sacred. ...Polychronic cultures are by their very nature oriented to people. Any human being who is naturally drawn to other human beings and who lives in a world dominated by human relationships will be either pushed or pulled toward the polychronic end of the time spectrum. If you value people, you must hear them out and cannot cut them off simply because of a schedule.
M-time, on the other hand, is oriented to tasks, schedules, and procedures. As anyone who has had experience with our bureaucracies knows, schedules and procedures take on a life all their own without reference to either logic or human needs. ...M-time is also tangible; we speak of it as being saved, spent, wasted, lost, made up, crawling, killed, and running out (pp.43,50).
(obtenido de las lecturas de clase)

También platicamos un poco sobre la creación del Estado Nación, y cómo cada etapa de desarrollo tuvo un significado específico en la época.

No on Prop. 8

No on Proposition 8
Debunking the myths used to promote the ban on same-sex marriage.
November 2, 2008

LATimes (para leer todo, aquí)


Clever magicians practice the art of misdirection -- distracting the eyes of the audience to something attention-grabbing but irrelevant so that no one notices what the magician is really doing. Look over at that fuchsia scarf, up this sleeve, at anything besides the actual trick.

The campaign promoting Proposition 8, which proposes to amend the state Constitution to ban same-sex marriages, has masterfully misdirected its audience, California voters. Look at the first-graders in San Francisco, attending their lesbian teacher's wedding! Look at Catholic Charities, halting its adoption services in Massachusetts, where same-sex marriage is legal! Look at the church that lost its tax exemption over gay marriage! Look at anything except what Proposition 8 is actually about: a group of people who are trying to impose on the state their belief that homosexuality is immoral and that gays and lesbians are not entitled to be treated equally under the law.

So Little Time, So Much Damage

Editorial
So Little Time, So Much Damage

Published: November 4, 2008
Most presidents put on a last-minute policy stamp, but in President George W. Bush’s case it is more like a wrecking ball.

La Editorial

Cultural Differences

Hasta ahora hemos hecho mucho énfasis en la importancia de ser multiculturales (o al menos entender qué hay detrás de este concepto). Creo que esa es una de las claves en la nueva lectura sobre cultural differences.




Cultural Differences?
Or, are we really that different?

Gregorio Billikopf Encina
University of California

Obtenido aquí

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Please take this short fun University of California survey before reading this article. Personal space and cultural differences survey

In 1993, I had my first opportunity to visit Russia as a representative of the University of California. I was there to provide some technical assistance in the area of agricultural labor management. "Russians are a very polite people," I had been tutored before my arrival. One of my interpreters, once I was there, explained that a gentleman will pour the limonad (type of juice) for the ladies and show other courtesies.

Toward the end of my three week trip I was invited by my young Russian host and friend Nicolai Vasilevich and his lovely wife Yulya out to dinner. At the end of a wonderful meal Yulya asked if I would like a banana. I politely declined and thanked her, and explained I was most satisfied with the meal. But the whole while my mind was racing: "What do I do? Do I offer her a banana even though they are as close to her as they are to me? What is the polite thing to do?"

"Would you like a banana?" I asked Yulya.

"Yes," she smiled, but made no attempt to take any of the three bananas in the fruit basket. "What now?" I thought.

"Which one would you like?" I fumbled.

"That one," she pointed at one of the bananas. So all the while thinking about Russian politeness I picked the banana Yulya had pointed at and peeled it half way and handed it to her. Smiles in Yulya and Nicolai's faces told me I had done the right thing. After this experience I spent much time letting the world know that in Russia, the polite thing is to peel the bananas for the ladies. Sometime during my third trip I was politely disabused of my notion.

"Oh no, Grigorii Davidovich," a Russian graciously corrected me. "In Russia, when a man peels a banana for a lady it means he has a romantic interest in her." How embarrassed I felt. And here I had been proudly telling everyone about this tidbit of cultural understanding.

Certain lessons have to be learned the hard way. Some well meaning articles and presentations on cultural differences have a potential to do more harm than good and may not be as amusing. They present, like my bananas, too many generalizations or quite a distorted view.

Some often-heard generalizations about the Hispanic culture include: Hispanics need less personal space, make less eye contact, touch each other more in normal conversation, and are less likely to participate in a meeting. Generalizations are often dangerous, and especially when accompanied by recommendations such as: move closer when talking to Hispanics, make more physical contact, don't expect participation, and so on.

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