Palenque and the Alvin Ailey dance company.

Well, the sounds is different which mean the use of unique instruments in each dance. Particularly, I felt that Alvin dance company rhythm is faster than the Palenque. And we could see in both of them that they dance for something special and the enjoy doing that.

Post about how and why English was used on these sites. What did you learn from them?

English is used on these sites because USA is one of the most powerful countries all over the world. So, like that is the influence of USA that everyone want or have to learn English. For the previous situation, is supposed that using English is a way to spread information, and that is totally right. We could learn about how are celebrated some holidays around the world. The food traditions in these celebrations and that is quite interesting because we are not used to see that in my country

The Saints of Somalia
1. Who are the "Saints of Somalia"?
R/= A family of doctors who take care of a community of people of 90000 people.
2.Describe their camp. What is their school like?
R/= They are in their backyard and the school is about two years old. There are around 850 children, with a majority of womens and girls.
3.Describe their clinic and a typical day there.
R/=Every morning they have 400 patients. More or less. Those patients are attended by only five doctors. Some of them have to be re-scheluded for the next day.
4. What are the two main rules of the camp?
The first one is that there is no political division in the Somalian society or clandestine punishments.
The second one is that no man can beat his wife.
5.According to the two doctors, what do the women of Somalia represent?
R/= The most strong person all over the world.
6.For the daughter, what is the hardest part about working with her mother? What is the best part?
R/=The hardest thing is that the mother is very toughfull and always expect to do more. The best is that then the mother teaches her how to do the things way better.
7. How have these women chosen to deal with the effects of living in a country at war?
R/=Because at first time the mother was alone and the daughter saw that the mother needed that help. The people also needed. So that feeling of helping people motivated her and her mother to deal with the effects of        living in a country at war.
8.Why did they speak on TED talks? What should we learn from them?
R/= Because TED spreads ideas so that activity that those women are doing is really incredible and we should learn that the things have to be donde without expecting anything from the other

How have either a sport, hobby, or music shaped your own personal culture?

I think that music, hobbies and sports have contributed to conform my own culture. Sports give me discipline, competitiveness, good shape, passion. Soccer is definitely the one that provides me all tohse things that I mentioned before. When I play soccer I am always happy and enjoy a lot of the match. When I am in a competition I enjoy that more I feel the pression and also I feel that something is in game and I have to make and effort to achieve that. Music give me differents emotions, it depends of the moment but "without music, world would be a mistake" as Nietzche said. Hobbies give me time for me. Just me. So all those things have created my own culture.

Which one I would lend money to? 

Well, I think that I would lend money without doubting to all of them but Martha. Why? Martha is apllying for her first Kiva loan and have not finished paying that. On the other hand, there are Blanca and Ericka who have applied for loans before, and they have paid some of the loans and are paying the others, 
Between both of them I would choose Blanca, because her business is bigger and I could see that she is paying the loans in fees of 126 USD responsibly. So that give me security to lend her money firt. By the way I would lend money to Ericka then.

1. How are matatu drivers treated in his experience with the BBC?

R/= Matatu drivers are considered "the black sheep of Kenya". Criminals, dangerous people who break rules and laws. While doing their job they are always in risk of being arrested for breaking the traffic rules. Due to sterotypes like these, Matatu drivers are treated really bad. Police is always asking them  for money to let them do their job for a while and do not take them to prison. 

As we could read in the Blog, the experience with the BBC was not the exception. They were blame of jumping the traffic light but they really did not. By the way, they ended up at the parking yard at Central police station. After that, we can see the injustice Matatu drivers have to deal with. 

2. Do Barranquilleros have the same negative opinion of mototaxistas as the Kenyans have of matatu drivers?
R/= We have a similar opinion about the mototaxistas, but I think that the Barranquillero´s opinion is more radical than the Kenyans. Here in Barranquilla when people see a person on a motorbike close to them , inmediately think that they are about to be stolen, or murdered because we see in the media that the majority of the crimes are commited on a motorbike, or they use motorbike for a fast murder and then they escape on the motorbike. Also for kidnapping are used the motorbikes. So the stereoype abou the mototaxistas is really negative. 

Racism against AfroColombianos

Such a sad situation we have just seen in the video. Black people have been being despised since the beginning of the history. They have always been treated like slaves. In fact, a long time ago they were the slaves of the spanish colonizers. 

Some people have in mind that black people are made for doing "the dirty job". I want to mean, things that the white man will not do because he thinks he is too superior to do that thing. 

In Colombia, some people have that thinking in mind. So, while many people think like that, we are not going to move forward our society. They are part of our country, we must take in count their problems and try to help in what we can. They are humans and have rights, so we must respect that and help them. 

Favorite Carnival Moments

I was born in Barranquilla and it might sound a little weird, but I do not like carnivals. Since the past five years I have been travelling for this time to avoid carnivals. Usually to Cartagena o Santa Marta and relax my self . By the way,  this is a homework and I have to choose a moment of the carnival. Remembering, when I was a child I used to go to this events and in that time I liked the Carnival. Well, my favorite carnival moment was the "Great parade of fantasy" that is done on monday. I really liked this event. When I was a child I used to be surprised for the magic of this event. People dressed up with unusual but striking costumes, like the death, garabato, etc. Dancing, making noise and I could see the happines in them doing that. That was really nice. The currently carnival is so different from the carnival I used to see, for that I do not like.

1. What do we learn about Tuareg culture from this video? 
R/= Well, in the video we can appreciate a culture ver different from us. Let´s start for the costume the use. We can  see that have most of the body covered by that costume. We can see they like natural things. I mean, to interact with the nature. Also they like tea and write songs about what they feel and link that with the nature that they see.

 2. Keeping in mind what you learned from this interview, how does seeing the visuals within the video and knowing the meaning of the lyrics give us a deeper understanding of Tuareg culture?`
R/= Yes! In fact, most of the things that I know of the Tuareg culture were deduced after seeing the video and analizing deeply the song with the subtitles. Images, songs, things like that are good tools to understand a culture. 

 1. Why was Barranquilla chosen? 
R/= Barranquilla knew how to do the things in the right way. As we know, Barranquilla´s Carnival is the biggest cultural manifestation of the region.Celebration known all around the world. So, Barranquilla took advantage of that and started a process  with the International Bureau of culturals capital. When the president of that entity came here, was impressed with the city, with the cultural environment we can feel here, but what impressed the most were the positivism and the international proyection of the city. All these reasons, brought the recognition of 2013 cultural capital to Barranquilla.

2. Will Barranquilla receive any of the economic benefits Liverpool hoped to from being named a cultural capital?
R/= That depends of the product  that the media sell to the world. Probably, you are wondering ¿What do I want to mean with the previous statement. With media I wanna mean Tv, magazines, internet, newspaper, etc. With product I wanna mean, us, the people who live in Barranquilla, our culture, our traditions. As we know after reading the article, Barranquilla will have promotion through two internationals channels. That is decisive to receive any economic benefit. The things that the channel transmit about our city, will be seen by many people all around the world. If the things that the people see trough the program are interesting and different from what they are used to, their attention will be catched and they will come and enjoy the celebration. By the way, they are spending money and that contributes to the economy of the city. The more foreign people come to our city and spend money, the economy of the city will improve. 

1. What different points of view do we see in this story? 
R/= Well, clearly each one of them have his own point of view about something. The focus of the view in all the persons worldwide  depends of a lot of factors like the education, the familiar environment, etc. In this case, we have just read, we can see two different ways of do the things and see the world. The white man, who received education, is working on something that he studied to be capable of. In the other hand, the black man, who just know how to do works that requires strenght, and there´s no need to study for that. The situation of superiority of the white man, give him the opportunity to pay for do the things and the black man, who needs to earn money, to feed himself and his family have to do that things. 
The white man just care about himself and the things to be done when he wants. Meanwhile the black man living in such a bad conditions, is thinking how to feed his family the following days. In this story, we can see the power of the money.

2. Explain the reasons behind the miscommunication that occurred between these two men.
R/=  I think that the most important reason of the  miscommunication between these two mens is the difference in the social status. The white considers himself superior and doesn´t want to go down for a moment and interact with the black man. And the black man is scared of approaching the white man because If he bothers much the white man he could get fired and then can´t have how to feed his family. He just keeps the distance, works harder ir order to be seen by the white man and get a gain on his salary .The lack of humility from the white man, makes the black man to wonder the reason of that attitude. Actually, these situations are destroying the world. All of us are humans. All of us deserve respect.

Hi everyone, I´m  Alvaro Quintero. I´m a student of Business Administration at Universidad del Norte. I´m 18 and I like to play videogames, read, hang out with friends but what I like the most is to play soccer.