Well, I'm a sedentary and a very idle person. Apart from that I'm despective to alternative practices, like be a green (like a life style) not because they want a world free of garbage or pollution (that's a very good idea, for example I do things to be more friend with the environmental, like ride my bycicle to came every day to the university or use recycle things, like papers or notebook), but they used that practices to create a fashion.

If you go to alternative places here in Santiago, you can find this particular kind of people. Peace and love, the most are veggies (vegeterian or vegans), ride colorfull and vintage bycicle...

AAAAA!

Ok, I will try to make and objetive post in my blog, but you can look that I have a idea about the "green people" and they horrible fashion.

Well, I really think that make environmnental friendly practices are one of the best proposition in the last 15 years. In a world where the biggest entrerprises (and countries) take the control of the economy, consume and of course, the production, the social organization (civil society) it is the last alternative.

In their beginning the ecological movement grew in the base of the society...like a independent social movement, specifically in industrialised countries. In that sense, if the ecological organization want to fight a way of production (in marxist terms), they are in the wrong way making a fashion around some practices. That's the reason because I don't support the actual movement, but I'm constant doing my own practices.

The chilean government doesn't want to promote a environmental policy because they are inserted in a dependent relation flow with the industrialised countries. Chile export prime material and that's the reason because our rivers and sea are full of garbage and filth.

Meanwhile there aren`t a change in the production way, the environmentall friendly efforts will be a residual and minimal forces. I hope that this reality change one day :)

An unusual chance

I studied in a private school, a very high class private school; The San Ignacio El Bosque school is an exlcusive education establishment in Providencia. If I have a good memory, at least a 80% of the teachers have postgraduate courses, including the jesuits priests, who studied 14 years to recieve the order. Inside, there are an olympic swimming pool, a real-grass soccer field with a athletic track around, an artificial-grass soccer pitch, 14 baby-soccer field (you can deduce that is a school only for boys, jeje) and an enourmus arena. Those are details that I can't avoid to make an auto-analysis of my high-school education. I think that I recieved a very sofisticated education. Just as well, because my parents paid a fortune.

My favorite subject were history and geography, the politics tendencies elective, literature, and of course, the football time. I still have contact with Carolina, the history teacher and with Guillermo, the teacher of Latinamerican Literature. This last one suggested me to study either Anthropology or Sociology. Firtsly I had intention to study Anthropology, but then, thinking and thinking I decided for the sociology.

I remember those conversations with Guillermo. We came to Plaza Ñuñoa at least 3 times to chat about my future, and eventually his future, because he is atheistic and that is a forbidden characteristic in a religious school, so he had problems with the superior priest and the school authorities.

With the tecnology I don't have much affinity. I only remember with happiness, the technologic evolution that my generation lived during the high-school. We were the generation that started presenting in card, then in diskette, years later in a cd and finally in a pendrive. I recall the pasion and dedication with my friends and I wrote in the cards, the subtlety with which pot glue in the newspaper clip...now with internet everything is easy, everithing is possible.

¿How Fair is Britain?

I study Sociology since 2007 and, for me, the most important topic are the social inequalities. That's the reason for why sociologist write about power, domination, authority, legitimacy etc.

I found in http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/oct/11/equality-report-race-britain-launch?intcmp=239, an interesting article about ¿How fair is Britain?. It is new for me review articles with a sociological background of a european country, because I ussualy read about Latin America or specifically of Chile.

The social reality in those countries (european) it is completly different of our continent. For example, the inequialities are not the division rich/poor but european/foreigner. Also that categories have implicit power relations who influence the different kinds of social relations. In Chile we have that phenomenon with peruvian people. They are sistematicly marginalized of the social activities, for example, they are relegated to informal jobs.

In britain, "the commission's first three-year review, How Fair is Britain, shows that while some inequalities remain entrenched, new challenges are emerging as the country's population becomes older and more ethnically and religiously diverse".

The high rate of immigration seems to be a problem for British society. Dispite of good news like, "in education the Chinese and Indian people are streaking ahead at school", there are evidences to suggest that discrimination in the recruitment process keeps them out of jobs, specifically for Pakistani men who has to be self-employments ( a quarter of men of Pakistani descent drive for a living – mostly in a taxi cab).

The commission does say that Britain is a largely "tolerant and open-minded society", which has become more socially liberal in recent decades. In that sense, the article says that Britain is living the "immigration paradox": three-quarters of Britons say that they are concerned about the scale of immigration at a national level – about the same proportion feels that immigration is not a problem for their own communities".

Finally, a spokeman for the government say that ""When people are treated fairly, everyone in society benefits. That's why this government is committed to tackling all forms of inequality and discrimination"...

¡we are waiting that these words are not being the typical statements of good intentions of politicians!