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Posted by Unknown Sunday, 9 March 2014 0 comments
How to write about Africa.

This material worked in class cause a big reaction in me, when the writer of this article start talking the way anyone should write about this country i felt Shake for him, that only
Point of view he wants to promote seems to me as the most ignorant one, he just want to show what everybody thinks is their reality, causing shame for african people.
The reason why i felt affected by the article is because i hate the people whoonly knows to refer about some place, away from their knowledge, in a discriminant and devaluing way, just because it cause sensationalism.
I dont think anybody should create realities from places they dont even know, leaving behind the respect for the ones who live in there, undervalue their culture and positive aspects.
If someone wants to show a Bad situation developing anywhere, he must visit that place firts, be sure what he's going to say is true and then, write or talk about it from a critical and objective viewpoint, making sure his not affecting the citizen of that place with his commentaries, and developing the them respectfully.

Mary Andrea Jimenez.

Food Industry (reflection about presentation)

Posted by Unknown Tuesday, 4 March 2014 3 comments

María Isabel Mexia Careaga
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Communication and globalization


Food Industry

Globalization has reached not only technology but also the way we have educated ourselves. Now a day food has become very industrialized, because of the rush of the every day and the rapid kind of life we are leaving, food industry has change the way they present food and how they sell it to us. Fast food has become an important industry because it fits in the way people deals with time. McDonalds for example, is one of the most important businesses around the world. They have established in a lot of countries and part of their success is because they known how to reach people interest and adapted to their own culture and traditions. Even though their legal problems, they have found strategies that helped them to recover for some inconveniences.

In todays world is very common to find frozen food in the super market and people buy this products a lot, this have become a common practice around population because of the fast and easy way to cook. Even though in Mexico it isn’t that common to eat frozen food as it is in USA, we do consume fast-food a lot. We don´t know what new thinks with food would happened, but I think that globalization will still influencing people life because this changes are just starting, they’re a lot more to come.

Logos of some of the most famous fast-food brands around the world


Personal Reflection of Material in Class

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María Isabel Mexia Careaga
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Personal Reflection of Material in Class

Following the meaning from Oxfords Dictionaries, stereotype is “the widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing”. It clearly said the idea of some culture but it doesn´t means it is real.

The topic that I think affects me personally is when we talked about the article “How to write about Africa”. It is a subject present in every culture, but some times it becomes kind of aggressive to the people you are stereotyping.

As a Mexican I felt identify with this because we are a very stereotype culture. The problem is that people around the world star thinking something specific about a population, but the real stamen it isn`t that one, so when they come visit Mexico, they are expecting what they have known from an idea, however they are not aware of reality.

Most of the time, the stereotypes about Mexican are not good; we are related to bad situation, mafia and violence. Despite having these problems, it doesn’t mean that we all are like that but that what we see in the movies. For these reason, I consider the media in part responsible for stereotypes, because people on the other side of the world are unable to know everything about a country that far from them, and the media works as a resource of information.

I consider that stereotypes are not good for anyone; they just provoke some population to fell less or more comparing to other cultures. However I found the beauty of the countries in the differences they have between them, so I think that laughing about them is disrespectful.  




Oxford diccionary (2014) http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/es/definicion/ingles_americano/stereotype

What I think

Posted by Unknown Thursday, 27 February 2014 0 comments
It's time to get a little bit gossipy here and expect that North Korea will never find out about it just like in our slumber parties, if you are a girl...

In the past few weeks I've seen and learned a lot of the globalized world, but only North Korea has been stuck in my mind like if it was a pop song pinned in the top 100 of the Billabong Billboard. So grab a chair (duh! you are already sitted) and listen or read whatever is you punks do now.

We all know that North Korea has a communist government and has, for a long time now, had a war with South Korea attempting to rule it but big brother USA won't allow it and neither does SK who doesn't wish to live under such government (and I don't blame them). We all know this story from our class History 101 or if you have seen any movie about it, but let me now really get into what I want to say, well more like write.

Last week, in my Globalization and Communication class, we saw Inside North Korea BBC Panorama News about how supposedly it ruled its land. Supposedly because the government only allowed to tape what they wanted and went baffling lies. For example, the reporters went touring a hospital with absolutely no patients in it and no doctor spoke of them, they just avoided the subject despite the insistent question about them. Later on an anonymous doctor was interviewed revealing the truth about the health care.

Let's say, if you are proud of what you have and it's real why wouldn't you let people see it and show it off? Because it's not their, you are most probably hiding something.

It's not new to us to learn that North Korea is making weapons (if it is please, stop and read your news) Though as we see in the videos they are preparing for a uprising war with South Korea, but in reality nothing seems to be going on at the moment in their so called dangerous border (knock on wood I don't want to give that poor land bad luck). No official is actually guarding it.

But one of the things that truly shocked me was the forced labor camps and how they resemble concentration camps. In the video, the people giving the tour didn't want them to be taped actually. They asked the guest to turn off their devices and to abstain of taking any picture. Weird, specially when your guest are actual reporters.They didn't event want them to be seen at all as if they weren't there and it was part of a dream maybe. Why, why are they hiding these?

These forced labor camps are prision to koreans who refuse to be comunist or dare to go against the sayings of their government. So their is no liberty of expression (yes, super hyper new fact nobody knew, right?) and also the internet is banned and why wouldn't it be if their dictator Kim Jung-un is an internationally known meme who is mocked to behave as a kid.

If it really wasn't a concentration camp the North Korean government wouldn't mind these prisions getting on tape. Why? Let's go a bit back in history and remember the end of the WWII. All nazis were judge for war crimes and punished equally as their victims, which it meant to be tortured in labor camps and then merciless killed. Even Hitler knew what he was going to face and he decided to cowardly run away and take his life as rumor has it. And Germany was split to avoid any other upcoming war.

North Korea resemble me a bit to Nazi Germany. The propaganda that went out in the country and off from it said that nothing wrong was happening and they were preparing the world for a brighter future. Also that its population was happy to live in there. Maybe in North Korea we don't get to hear much of their inhabitants but if we ask someone, they are happy, aren't they? (Shh... don't upset them!)

If the "prisions" in North Korea were discovered to truly be concentration camps expect no less punishment as the nazis, and this is not good for them. It will mean the immenent destrucion of a North Korea and korean culture as we know it. So they decide just to shove it underneath the rug and pretend everything is good and happy.

What troubles me is the fact that people are dying in there with no one ever to treat them as the humans they are, just because they wanted to go a different way. I'm not against communism, but neither I'm pro communism. I believe that every country should have it's own government that works for them but never ever put on the line the human rights and lifes. 

I fear if this isn't contained and its kept growing in some few or maybe much more years there will be a war, North Korea is getting ready for it... That is how this affects me, the fear of a sudden war that I still don't know who will be fighting it but I asure you, my neighbouring country, USA, will be part of it. I just hope their battlefield is somwhere there is no mass destruction.

Well that's my gossip, thanks for reading/listening to my words. Please don't believe in conspiracy theories.

So long until next post!

Giselle

Here is the video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zDYrFE985g#aid=P-zRfjAqAf8

Globalization and entertainment

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We have learned a lot of things in this course, because we are able to see circumstances of all over the world. Our teacher showed us some videos for us to watch and analyze, and make activities. We see topics and places like America, Latin America, Africa, among others, and in this way it’s easier for us to know what’s going on in the world.

We make little groups and make a contribution of our own, making research of topics like entertainment industry in the world, music globalization and transportation. We were able to see and to learn that now we are more connected than ever.

More specifically in the world of entertainment, we can see how music, series, movies, and a lot of stuff are approaching us and it’s easier for people to watch material of all over the world, and to the producers of entertainment to get a bigger public.


Globalization has helped me personally also because I’m able to know things of the world and get to recognize places I don’t even visit yet, thanks to the internet and to the news. Also in the world of entertainment I can watch the series or episodes that are not airing in Mexico, the movies and music also. 

GLOBAL TO PERSONAL

Posted by Unknown Wednesday, 26 February 2014 0 comments



GLOBALIZATION OF FOOD:
GLOBAL TO PERSONAL
by Sofía Guzmán
So far we have covered a lot of gossips around the world (well, more facts than gossips) We discussed about Media and how it may or may not unite differentes cultures, we talked about technolgy and how it has change the way we interact with each other and we compared the transportation and entertainment business between countries, and one subject that affected me the most (in a positive way): globalization of food.



It make sound like a joke, like "Seriously, that's the most important thing you've learned?" but think about it for a second, food is becoming the greatest killer of Americans and their Western Diet is the most globalize food! I'm talking about fast food: meat with more meat at the top, fatty fries, sodas, fake cheese, cero greens and the health problems it cause. Mexico, not far away from the headquartes of toxicity, also loves these kinds of foods and I started to notice I was part of it.
After doing a lot of research, watching food documentaries and talking about in class,  it was an issue that I wanted to change in my life. My daily diet didn't consits 100% on fast food , but I certainly had bad habits, I ate meat every day, was addicted to tortillas and bread, didn't drink water and just bought processed products. So, I make a challenge and for 30 days I only ate vegetables, fruits, seeds and drink green juices and water. It was harder that I thought, but at the end it was all worth it. I lost 7kg (15 pounds) and gain a lot of energy! Now that the challenge is over I finally said goodbye to the western diet and adopt (or at least try to) the healthiest diet possible, based on India, China and Japanese diets, the healthiest countries in the world.


(I mean just look at the flags!)   <--click to watch the magic


SINGLE STORY

Posted by Paulina Talamás Tuesday, 25 February 2014 0 comments

Personal reflection of the material  in class: Single Stories
By: Paulina Talamás


Of the material we have covered so far in these classes the one topic that i think affects me personally is when we talked about single stories. Stereotypes are defined as a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

 Even if we admit it or not, we know that we have been there; either someone has held one towards us or the other way around. And the danger of it relies on judging a whole group of people just because of the actions of a few that relate to the same group.

            This ethnic or racial stereotypes can be hurtful to a lot of people, maybe most people don’t see this as a danger, but it is an unwise practice and not beneficial neither for the person holding the stereotype and much less beneficial towards the person who is been stereotyped.


There isn't a single benefit found in joking about a group of people’s beliefs or way of believing just because they’re different about yours. This is what really makes the world a beautiful place to live in, finding differences among people, learning from them and enjoying them, for the world is full of diversity and is what makes the whole trip (life) worth our while.



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