Thursday, October 30, 2014

Graffiti

Graffiti or street art was not that common in Latin America countries  some decades before but due to the situation that each one was living and the necessity of the people to protest, to say or try to do something to change the reality of each of these countries the street art turn to be the best alternative to expose the situation and what they wanted to say.
Colombia is a country in which still the graffiti is consider as vandalism but everyday these thinking is getting part of the past because people is raising awareness of the important roll of these art since the artist are common people.
In Honduras the main problem is the violence and the authors of street art highlight these problematic.
Brazil and Argentina are countries that graffiti is consider as a real art is taken more serious and is not only a form of expressing the artist ideas.
Graffiti in northern africa are very important part of revolution and religious war is the only or the mainly way of expressing themselves and be against the government.

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Introduction

I'm Maria Camila Peña a 17 years old girl that studies industrial engineering at universidad del Norte in barranquilla colombia.
I love to listen music, watch movies and series, dance, eat any kind of food except for vegetables and I love to read books about biographies of common people that really had problems in their life and they went ahead.

Afrocolombians

With this kind of video we can see that even though the government in Colombia says that the equality exist isn't real, discrimination is a problematic world wild and the major victims are the ethnic groups such as afrocolombians, the opportunities that these groups have are lowers than any other kinds of group of people. I'm deeply concern about the numbers presented on the video because afrocolombians are suffering not only because of the deplorable conditions but also because of the lack of education and health and this is reflected on the rates of unemployment and mortality of the community.