jueves, 23 de octubre de 2014

Bangkok's 'Mexican' Gangsters



This example of cultural appropriation is so interesting for me because we can observe how a culture take a piece of a totally different culture and they transform it into something that belong to them. In specific this example is so interesting because this people took the clothes and music styles of the Mexican gangsters, a culture that is know as violent and problematic, and they use it in a right way. 

"Clothes and looks don't measure anything" this quote said by one of the member of a Thai "gang" fit perfectly in this case because they have to deal with people that thinks they are criminal when first meet them because of their clothes and their phisical aspect, but actually, most of this people are normal, they work in offices, they are teachers, cops, etc., and I think that we should learn to not judge a person for their look, or their clothes, or their skin color, but we should start looking deeper in their personalities.

martes, 7 de octubre de 2014

Say No To Racism

After watching the video about discrimination against Afrocolombians we can see the that this people have been forgotten by both goverment and the society and the result of that is the stadistics that show the problems that they face every day. I think that Colombians should do somenthing for this people, we should include them in our society and make them part of our development, because they are Colombians too and they represent a big part of our identity.