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Tuesday, March 19, 2013
La Interculturalidad en el Siglo XXI
La globalización es un fenómeno que está transformando a las sociedades, tanto de maneras positivas como negativas. De manera amplia, se caracteriza por el libre mercado, la evolución tecnológica, el sistema neoliberal y capitalista y la sociedad del conocimiento y la información. Cabe destacar dentro de todo esto que la globalización ha sido, sin duda alguna, motor de numerosas migraciones, ya que las personas cruzan fronteras en busca de nuevas y mejores oportunidades, reflejando un continuo cambio en las poblaciones del mundo. En la mayoría de los casos, los procesos migratorios actuales se caracterizan por tener que enfrentarse a escenarios sociales, políticos, culturales y económicos diferentes, por lo que es necesario que se lleven a cabo procesos de inclusión donde se tomen en cuenta dichas situaciones. Dichos procesos de inclusión implican la necesidad de la interculturalidad en el contexto actual. Sin embargo, muchos de los países receptores toman actitudes contrarias que marginan y discriminan a los inmigrantes. Es por ésta y muchas razones más que es necesario implementar y aprehender la importancia de la educación intercultural en el sistema educativo y en la comunidad en general.
En México hay una gran diversidad cultural; datos estadísticos del Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática (INEGI) dan a conocer que este país ocupa el octavo lugar en este rubro a nivel internacional y cifras generadas por el Consejo Nacional de Población (CONAPO) en el 2005 establecen que uno de cada ocho mexicanos es indígena. Actualmente, la lucha de los pueblos indígenas de América Latina continúa en contra de la discriminación, el racismo y en hacer valer sus derechos políticos, sociales, económicos y culturales. Desde el siglo XIV y hasta la actualidad la dominación y la subyugación de la cual son objeto los pueblos indígenas en México no han sido eliminados. Asimismo, la valorización de la cultura propia consta en poner énfasis a los derechos lingüísticos que constituyen la facultad de obrar a favor de la valoración, respeto y desarrollo de las lenguas, garantizando su uso libre, su presencia socio-cultural, y su práctica institucional y su protección gubernamental. De aproximadamente, siete mil lenguas vivas en el mundo, once familias lingüísticas tienen presencia en México, por lo que deben seguirse conservando mediante la práctica y el uso.
La educación debe adoptar una interculturalidad que implique inclusión. Todas las escuelas deben dar respuesta a las diferencias, ya que todas las personas tienen derecho a ser respetadas y tener las mismas posibilidades educativas. Para que se pueda llevar a cabo una verdadera inclusión en la escuela, se debe empezar con eliminar o minimizar las barreras que limitan el aprendizaje y la participación de todo el alumnado, y responda positivamente a la diversidad.
Según el Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo: “La interculturalidad es una práctica política que va más allá de la aceptación y tolerancia de otras identidades y culturas. Enfatiza la importancia del diálogo entre culturas y saberes, pero frente a las desigualdades y relaciones asimétricas existentes entre culturas, debe necesariamente luchar contra la desigualdad y la discriminación, para crear una sociedad diversa más armónica y justa.”
Encarnación Soriano trata de explicar la oposición por parte del país receptor hacia a la inmigración como el miedo a ser absorbidos por culturas y valores que traen los extranjeros o por la preocupación de los nacionales a perder sus empleos debido a que los inmigrantes están dispuestos a trabajar por salarios más bajos. La sociedad es culpable por inculcar estas ideologías equívocas que sólo generan mayor discriminación al “otro” ya que es común la aversión hacia lo diferente por lo que se excluye y margina a los inmigrantes envés de acogerlos como se debería. Se siente una necesidad de proteger lo “propio” sin estar conscientes de que esa noción es sumamente discriminatoria y no permite el enriquecimiento cultural que nos podría brindar esta diversidad. Asimismo, implica una falta de empatía y solidaridad ya que no visualizan las circunstancias y situaciones de vulnerabilidad que viven estos extranjeros lejos de su lugar de origen, ya sea por diversas razones, la mayoría para mejorar su calidad de vida. Es por ésta y muchas razones más que es necesario implementar y aprehender la importancia de la educación intercultural en el sistema educativo y en la comunidad en general.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
25 things
1. A very easy way to socialize with your friends.
2. Being able to share the photos of a special occasion and comment on them.
3. Getting contact with friends you had not seen in a long time.
4. It's a quick way to find friends and contact many of them all at once.
5. You won't forget a friend's birthday because it normally shows it.
6. Being able to express yourself and having your own personal space which is only yours.
16. Everyone has a Facebook.
Hate:
1. Unknown people adding you
(receiving a daily friend request by someone whom you have never even heard or seen in your life; it is very annoying how people add randomly just to have more friends)
2. Creating so much gossip in school and basically in the community due to Facebook, where people "see" things that are "worth so much" to talk about.
3. Seeing how many people waste so many hours of their lives with stupid applications that are really useless.
4. Having your home full of people becoming "fans" to whatever they do in their lives such as breathing air.
5. It shows absolutely everything other people are currently doing or recently did, creating a curious feeling when you never used to even care about certain people.
6. People may upload pictures of you where you look horrible and you can only untag yourself, but cannot actually take it off from Facebook.
7. Everyone can see your (comment) conversation you have with your friend. It's as if anyone could sneak on a talk you are having with your friend.
8. People create mean pages insulting other people or beliefs, among other things.
9. People put so many lame stuff in their statuses it's just embarrassing.
10. Relationships. Everyone knows whether you have a new boyfriend or if you guys broke up. There is no privacy, and there is a lot of vulnerability.
11. Your home page is so contaminated with notifications of people becoming friends with whatever people.
12. The friend suggestion bar in the right of your home page where people add anyone they "may know" but really don't.
13. It really makes you addicted to it. Even though there is not much to see, you keep being there.
16. Facebook Chat is very annoying.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
What is the most serious environmental issue facing Earth?
There are so many, but so many environmental problems facing Earth today but the one that I feel most serious of all is pollution. There is both air and water pollution but the first one seems more dangerous to me. I feel the majority of our current funding must be put towards solving this issue, although part of it should also go to other problems such as the conservation of species, preventing the overflowing landfills, stopping rain forest destruction, energy depletion, among some others. Air pollution is probably the most serious problem of all due to its effects towards all living beings and the environment.
Air pollution is the introduction of chemicals, particulate matter, or biological materials into the atmosphere. They cause harm and discomfort to humans and other living organisms, and damage the natural environment. The atmosphere is a complex dynamic natural gaseous system that is essential to support life on planet Earth. Stratospheric ozone depletion due to air pollution has long been recognized as a threat to human health as well as to the Earth's ecosystems. (Wikipedia) In other words, air pollution harms not only humans but all living beings and the natural environment. It affects the whole atmosphere we live in. If the air is polluted, everything is affected. Most living organisms, including us, breathe air, therefore the more contaminated it is, the more harm it causes us. If our oxygen is continued to be polluted this way, our main living source will die meaning we will all die.
"Air pollution is not yesterday's problem. Thousands of deaths each year result from the UK's failure to keep air pollutants – especially from traffic – at safe levels" (Tim Yeo)
As this reporter said, this issue is not a problem that has risen today; it is something we have been exposed to for a time and it is certainly affecting our world. All these air pollutants are substances that cause harm to humans and the environment, and it is actually killing many people. Authorities should have more awareness and put more of their funding money to solve this humongous problem and keep air pollutants at safe levels. Traffic, factories’ wastes, trash, among other factors cause this terrible problem that has become such a threat to humanity and to Earth. Not only humans are dying because of it, there are millions of animals both in the earth and in the ocean that fall as victims of this monster. Also our plants and everything Mother Nature has given us has been affected and destroyed due to pollution. It has certainly caused damage to everyone.
The worst part is that pollutants can be found in any form; solid, liquid or gas. They are so abundant and they can be found everywhere, whether it is diesel from cars, smog from all sorts of sources such as automobiles and industrial emission, acid rain among other contaminants. Another reason they are so dangerous is because they are man-made and natural. There are occasions in which it is not our fault air pollution strikes, sometimes nature provokes it. For example volcano eruptions are dangerous due to the ash that pollutes the air. Moreover, there may be pollution inside our homes and working places, not only outside. Normal activities such as cooking and smoking can cause harmful pollutants and by breathing it, health is affected. One should definitely be careful with air pollution everywhere.
In conclusion, air is vital especially for us humans. It supplies us with oxygen which is needed every second of our lives to continue existing. We should try preventing this environmental issue that is contributing enormously to the Greenhouse Effect. If we really care about Earth, and think about our future generations, we should act now. People should receive more education regarding this horrible problem and create awareness in order to diminish this terrible threat to all of us. Go Green! J
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youngprotectors.com/
specialnewsonline.files.wordpress.com
http://flatplanet.wikispaces.com/file/view/exhust_pollution.jpg/30556307/exhust_pollution.jpg
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Unbelieavable Invention
I feel the greatest things about the technology are how it connects the digital world with real life; how you can physically do things being connected to a digital media. It is unbelievable how you can have access to so much information with just using your fingers and connecting the whole world with anything you do. You can be aware of absolutely everything you do, and make it better in all ways. I really loved how by just touching some objects such as your hand you can see a clock, or touching a book and you can know about it. When I saw how he read a newspaper and by just touching it, he could have access to videos and see life in paper. I also liked when he could copy and paste real life objects to the computer. Personally I did not see any limitations to this great invention; I just found its benefits.
At the end of the video, this genius inventor said that it is quite cheap to make and that he will be sharing his software via Open Source. "Open Source" is a term I am not very familiar with, but it is a way of sharing the product with the public; giving access to the object's invention (its process in making/materials). It is actually giving access to the source code. I believe the pro of sharing software in this way is that people all around the world will have an easier access to it. It will not be an extremely expensive device that only rich people will have; it will have more accesibility. It will be produced in greater amounts, so there exists a possibility we will be able to have it in some years. On the other hand, the cons of having it in this manner is that the author of such a great invention won't benefit as much as he could in other ways.