Tuesday, October 7, 2014

A dark problem!

Racism is a social problem which involves a big percentage of Colombian population. It's difficult live in a country that not respect your rights and it is difficult try to improve in several areas of your life with discrimination. In Colombia, discrimination practices are illegal, however in several places like night clubs or restaurant keep behaviours like right of admission, and do not let you access to that service because your skin color or your appearance. It sad find this kind of habits in Colombia and countries like Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Brazil. If you investigate about the history of these countries, you could appreciate that all have ancestry Afro. People who practice racism have made an excellent job, you can see often the results for example, in expressions like my title, you link dark or the black color with something bad, instead white color that often you relate with peace. We have a big responsibility, we should change these kind of thinking and making of our community improve about racism!

You can find more information:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiGKIO722HA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zubBxJsqdlI&feature=plcp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=CBNUOsrIiAs&feature=endscreen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCCRCcw9MrY&feature=relmfu

3 comments:

  1. Good point about how we use language!

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    1. Did you notice these kind of issues in our language?

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