Thursday, November 28, 2013

The end of gender stereotypes in our society

Hello! today I’m going to talk you about the gender in modern society, and I’ll start with a speech of Johanna Blakley called Social media and the end of gender. Well, the speech is about the link between social medias en the end of gender stereotypes. About this she say that the social medias allow to demolish this gender stereotyoes. First of all, she talk about the mass media and how they use rigid stereotypes,  further in demographic categories like age and gender, wich provides us of a “distorted mirrows” about them.  This demographics are methods of segmentation called psychographics and allow them to understand their audience tastes. In this sense this stereotypes belong to people of 19 to 54 years old. The funny thing is that this stereotypes can´t be applied to social media, because, despite the people in the internet have this age, it doesn´t exist a link between demographics and taste.  This means that taste is a powerful aggregatorof human beings more tan demographics. The important thing is that woman dominate the social networks. And for Johanna this means that woman will demolish all the empty gender stereotypes, like chick flick.  


Well, I agree with Johanna about their argue, but I think that the end of the gender stereotypes can be seen in other dimensions of social life. For example, we can see this in chilean politic, specifically in the female liadership in the FECh –Melisa, a feminist- and in the government –with Michelle bachellet and Evelyn Matthei as opponents-. Despite that, I think that to end the gender stereotypes is necessary a change in the sexist culture of our country and of the world. If we didnt change our culture, the same offences and inequalities to woman will be continue.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

The importance of organization to resolve environmental issues

Hello everyone, today I’m going to talk you about what I think about the environmental issues. First of all, I think that the environmental problems must be understanding like an important dimensión of a bigger problem: a capitalist society wich favor the business owners problems over the public problems. I think that environmental issues are a sign of this kind of economy and if we want to resolve this issues we have to change the economy of our nation. This new economy must privilege the social matters making Chile a fair and equal country.
There are several examples of this: Pascua lama, is a miner proyect, wich destroy the evironment of this area, afecting the traditional way of linving of the aymaras. The miners are a good example of these because they always destroy the environment in order to increased the profit of they owners.
However, in the mean while we can contribute to resolve environmental issues to improvement our life quality. For example, we can educate our child in a sustainable way to living. Besides, we can inform us about the environmental issues, because this fact allow us to confront the business owners interests. In this sense, all our disagreement must be directed to organization, because only in this way we cant deal with the interests of powerful people wich are not interested in public matters.