OUR TASK 4 ABOUT CARIBBEAN MUSEUM

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Usage of English to teach about holidays in other countries

These Websites use the English lenguage to communicate the information that they want to share. I can tell that this use have a "Globalizing reason", people want that everyone receive the information and English is the  most spoken lenguage and its use permits that everyone, or the majority, have an access of this report.
Now, i liked two of the four Websites publised: Indian Holy Festival and Guatemala Holy Week. What catch my attention was the use and importance of the colours, i like the idea that colours means hapiness and these colours can cheer up someone´s day.

MATATU DRIVERS

They were treated pretty bad, Kenyans think that Matatu drivers are drug dealers, thieves, the are always breaking the traffic laws, with this experience with the BBC, the cops were not able to take advantaged of Matatu drivers because of the cameras but still were victims of the stereotypes that they Kenyans have about Americans. In Barranquilla it depends a lot of which part of the city we are talking about. If we enfatize in the north part, the majority of citizens believe that mototaxistas are thieves or      murderers, but in the "Country side" Like towns we can find that they see mototaxis as another way of transportation, and the drivers just as people working like in another job.

AFROCOLOMBIANS

The topic of racism in colombia should not taken as something that is not happening near to us, sometimes we think that this is a situation that "poor communities" have to deal and that´s exactly the kind of thoughts that don´t let us move forward. Usually we see a racist behavior and we just do nothing about it, we have to speak if we really want to change this situation.

Favorite carnival moments

Well, i was not that involved in these carnivals, i went to "Garabato del Country" "La Guacherna" and i' m not sure if i should include this as a carnival moment but i went to "El Festival de la Cerveza". So, in the "Garabato del country" i was with some friends in "El Parque Washington", the night was alright but i was not focus on the performance because i was having fun with my friends, i know.. that is not the objective of Carnivals but i enjoyed it :), The night of "La Guacherna" was another story, i was enjoying the dances, the costumes, the music, and so. But i had a problem with a guy who said that i was on his chair (that´s not true) and he paid for it, i chose to ignore him but when i stand up over my chair, he literally pushed me making me fall. At first i was angry but after 5 minutes i was laughing ..so for me, this is one of my favorite moments.

Tinariwen

I can infer that tuareg culture is characterized as a patient, calm, meticulous, and organized group of people. In some lyrics like " The lion is intrepid and the frog is vulnerable, but the latter is better at finding the path to water" tells me that they don´t mind to be fast, they are more interested in do the right things in the right way. The images of the video teach me how they do the simple things, they take the things slowly and calm and they make and effort for a perfect result. I don´t know nothing about this culture, but i can make a point of view thanks to this video by trying to analyzed the images, the lyrics and the relaxing song.

Barranquilla - 2013 Cultural Capital

According to the article, the process of barranquilla being the capital of culture came from long time ago, the major was trying to obtain this title a few months ago so they looked for the president of the International Bureau of Cultural Capitals " Xavier Tudela". They attended the call and came to this city, they were shocked because of the happy and enjoyable enviorement and its culture proyection so they finally decided to become barranquilla in the american capital of culture 2013.
This recognition does barranquilla promoted in an international level because of the agreements of the bureau has with Antena 3 of Spain and Discovery Networks, this kind of publicity can make tourists come to the city, this means a considerable capital of money for barranquilla.