Thursday, September 11, 2008

Eyes closed

Addressing some cases media can be risky, both because there is always the possibility of multiple interpretations and conclusions underlying the combinations of words exposed to this level. But the concern is legitimate that a citizen may have with respect to what surrounds it. All political debates usually end up by referencing studies show that increasingly the alienation of youth in political matters at all its levels. Dar will be the appropriate size so it can translate to reality? The problem is general. The unconsciousness is common regardless of age do. Almost the fact that if vai giving more importance to other areas of society, without any kind of evolutionary performance for the country. It is a flagrant and evidence that has to fight to the contrary. There is a strength of the trend of ignorance? The person seeking the truth or participating in their oblivion? The individual is responsible for its passivity, but the company has to be responsible to warn of the blockade of reasoning. The attitude has to go against the tide. This will be a utopia? Is the Revolution of April did not allow the opening of developments? We stuck to reflect the emotion of our understanding? Viveremos today in a dictatorship, a censure or distraction of dementia in the know think for us?

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Cultural one issue (Debate - Sociology of Communication)


Enrichment or hindrance? Tolerance? Close to the availability of discovery of wisdom? There will be space for difference? The difference and cultural diversity will be part of our genetic code? The aim is to see the different points of view on cultural level. The ethnicities, religions, education, economic level, the spaces, allow us to realize how important it is to have a gap to diversity, as each society is governed by its rules and thus can not make value judgments, being stuck to our cultural foundations, because otherwise never percepcionamos in a way a non society different from ours. Cultural differences are a benesse to bringing social or repulsion? The first attitude is based in particular on the rejection, but when we allow and permit its implementation of this unknown who is the "other cultural", or the image, appearance and pre-concept, inflexibility, we receive and absorb in a culture that is "strange" to a more natural. The stereotype, the standard social conditions our attitude towards the other, because pre-designed a representation even if impensada on the other. It is said with some hard part of the debate, the Western culture sees the other cultures as inferior. Underneath this idea are underlying issues such as economic and social development of Western culture to other cultures, considered underdeveloped and with explicit and different needs. But what is the poorest in society cultural level? That which closes by feel superior? Or one where space is opened to the attention of others in seeking the convergence of globalization and the social and cultural level? "We are a racist people" said to be at times. What we spoke racism? The difference and cultural diversity are essential characteristics as the fact that there are "different rules" and "people are different"! The evolution fortunately enables increasingly cease to exist and to develop the unknown with the fluidity cultural recognition. A new culture becomes a challenge to the discovery for the individual, although opinions varied in the second debate today, more receptive, more comfortable, more protected if it is in their natural space, surrounded their "mother culture". The most important thing is to give oxygen exchange. However, when it is in a minority environment, there are those who say that we feel constrained and locked the receipt cultural, although we saw the place in question if there is a premise for social integration and openness in a minority situation. The fact that we are alone in another society and obviously another culture can make us become active and follow the demand of the unknown. An immigrant is from the conquest of the country where it stands and not the reverse as required. "The physical racism is being put aside", it was said in the debate, because there is more emphasis psychological differences, but never a form of violent and extremist. A major factor is that as a blockade to knowledge and awareness of other cultures, it exaggerated the link that is intrinsic to the individual with regard to their own culture. There is a close cultural. The main reasons are usually economic issues and objectives of those seeking another culture. In the special case of immigrants, it appears that their main motivations and forces of cultural knowledge of the country they find are those who are intimately linked to possible dividends, a better quality of life, and not because the delicious food and dance typical of that that the host country. The statement that fits itself as the essential tool of work, rather than the communication of culture and development of interpersonal relationships. The racism that still exists, what the characteristics? That comes to separate from the other? Racism is now a naturalised the point that it is as if he were incorporated into our "person". "It comes from the education we receive in a way innate" (examples: funniest programmes in the media as the "Malucos of Laughter" with jokes about, "the blacks in the works"; "the blonde burras"; "the Alentejo"…) . It is an unconscious racism. On the other hand, we can find benefits in the difference. Finding the meaning of difference is the reason the individual attention and that vai education is a gradual adaptation to diversity. Enriquece us, as rational beings, as people of emotional senses and are no longer evolving. We must see the world as it is and learn from the most diverse cultures all day with so many good things that have. "The differences only bring us things advantages / personal enrichment" But there is this reality that is necessary to cease the barriers. "The mixture of day-to-day life is natural, but still we can escape this trend? The convergence that feel and see is inevitable. We ourselves are a cultural mix. Our culture is pure and many people were saying in a Portuguese? The cultural practices of today are the result of centuries of division, even if not intentional. It adds up but the problem of self-cultural and social exclusion. There is fear of rejection of the culture they live in their natural societies. Those who seek to exclude itself well pass unnoticed and leave themselves fall into anonymity. There is the fear of rejection by the other that ignores social practices in which was educated and where they deposited all their deepest values and ideologies. This openness always depends upon the individual. And you have to look not superlativar our culture to the other. The isolation is arrogance, ignorance and limitation of wisdom. Then comes an issue with great importance to what extent we in our culture, without asking anything in return? "," We are receptive or only defenders of what we believe? ".

Students Departure (Coimbra)


Students of passion. Spirit of whom honor the black cape. Singing enchant those who absorb what hear. Coimbra is for all and all who feel nostalgia. The academic season, which fills much of the year, is par excellence the cradle of life of the city. They come from all corners of the country, students flood of reason and meaning of each stone sidewalk, which breathes history of centuries. The Mondego that mirrors the moonlight, the fall in its alleys of stories by counting the streets, breaking back, "tascas" of the traçadinho, the bars of conversation foot of ear, are the joy and comfort those who found a second home, with the hope of finding the mother wisdom. "Coimbra died in July and reborn in September," said Nuno Maricato, 3rd year student of the Faculty of Economics, and official of the Academic Association, lover of the charm of the night and day in the city of nostalgia. AAC is the first poiso, both the "caloiro" as the veteran, who no longer receive and review with great joy. No need presentations and advertisements. Every day and every night shines, seeking illuminate and provide only the good times all that remain there or very shortly. It is the best known bar in the city, where the remains tertúlia the night away and where several generations are crossing and exchange stories of life. AAC is an area at the height of the times, with a mild and friendly environment, accessible to all, highly academic. Closed during the entire month of August. Coimbra fears the summer, as the fish fear network. Do not fear the heat, but the absence of their students, faithful during almost the entire year. Although nascendo and dying repeatedly, the city radiates prosperity and hope. The low turn, is the heart, but not to be centre for the tradition of old stores and refurbished. Beirais of those old windows in granite. For the doors that require high regard. For the doves who follow in the footsteps of all. For the interweaving of parallel streets of spending. For the esplanade rustic occupied by the children of the newspaper. For the confusion of people who know where to vai. And especially, the student who desfila trajado in pride. Maricato also stressed that "the city was deserted just pleased with the tourists who come to see" not curious finding that "the Old University is the second most sought tourist point of the whole country by foreign tourists and also that the traditional trade only survives the summer for them. " However, some tourists also take leave and seek common trend for the party and the crowd, next to the white sand beaches of Figueira da Foz. The traditional trade, "has had better days," said D. Deolinda Fernandes, owner of a kiosk in the downtown of the city. This constraint to business agravasse with the arrival of the warm season of the year, but she feels increasingly because of the huge areas that are deeply persuasoras and invincible, speaking at more affordable prices and in diversity of products. Therefore, it becomes extremely complicated the lives of small traders who will maintain a certain magic and personality to the small square meters occupying, for the exercise of their profession. The end of the school year is constrangedor and painful to Coimbra. Students esgueiram up in confusion and return to their origins. To leave behind their new or old friends, his usual coffee, the evening university, learning to be less supported and mystique of the river that gives luck with the turnip bitten on the margins. All without exception fear the solitude and even those who chose to live in the city, seeking the anesthesia of pain for the deafening silence, close to the sea, Figueira da Foz.

Public or Crowd (Sociology of Communication)


We live in a society characterized by the concentration and mass communication. Although, as individuals endowed with reasoning, capable of development and intellectual developments are a Crowd that is not enough to join, but that joins search for consciousness. The Public. It is understood the lifting of opinion and the condition element of consciousness of being part of an audience. The crowd dispersed, for its part, which shares, conscience emphasizing the cognitive abilities of the individual and that knowledge is power for the intellectual and its consequent developments, is without a doubt, considered public. The opposition over the crowd rises in the sense if you believe in evolution, on the premise of leaving behind the happy absence of conscience. Crowd is a "mental contagion," a "sugestionamento", and that individuals tend to conform to the ideas of others and demonstrate its passivity, joining up with a mass of anonymous manner, limiting itself to imitation, leaving it is carried by the collective feeling. Imperativamente the question arises interrogativa, the convergence that may exist between the public and the crowd. Opinions differ, but enriched. They are near and distanciamentos. Surge the predominant tendency to cognitive development. There is the possibility of convergence, when it provides for the transformation of a public crowd, but not a real crowd pure and simple. Before a crowd virtual, requires no physical contact to promote ideologies, sharing of knowledge. Precipitamo us brilliantly for a path open to new views, and never by ventura a blockade of mind. The responsibility of this development lies with the development of intellectual abilities and consequent proliferation of access to knowledge. Only then, the public is told, given the crowd. Achieving up and putting up due to the development of the press, fundamental role in shaping the view of the individual and decisive in its statement of position before the whole society which wraps.