Skaters

This sub culture is very related to street culture and each day is growing bigger and bigger. It have been developing attraction to many people, so much that "American Sports" registered more than 13.5 million followers to this lets call it movement. They practice skating generally on open spaces like streets, parks, or any other open space where they can find ramps or at least different ground levels where they can practice some tricks. 

This subculture has been really discriminated for several aspects. One, normally peoples point of view about these guys is that they are all gangsters maybe or they just have drugs all day. Two, they way the dress make them look like if they were impolite or dangerous people. Three people think also that the only thing they like to do is making all our streets and all our parks their space and just damage them with their graffiti stuff and their ramps, and things that occupy all the place making it impossible to cross.

As we all know there are always exceptions for every aspect of life, and this wont be the exception. There are obviously guys that damage skaters name by being or doing all what the people from outside, things like drugs or graffiti are good example of it, so these people condemn the other sportive nice guys to this legacy of "gangsters" and mean people that maybe even they hate too. So, why dont we open a little our eyes and focus on the the beauty of the sport? On how brave all the kids and guys practicing skateboarding are, what kind of people are hidden behind those big t-shirts and little jeans. This is a sport and as a sport culture too, it should be treated as one.    

Marriage

mariage its a very important commitment between two persons. Its is considerate as a business between the couple, in the way that they need to find out how to live in harmony by preventing their partner dislikes. If you fall in love with a person who is from other culture (even more if its very different than yours) you'll start normally with the left foot. Because since the beginning the fight for achieving mutual satisfaction in everything will last a lot, things like the food, the colors of the house, how to organize furniture, family, schedules etc.. etc.. are going to be a mess just because you come from different places and you are used to have with what you grew up with, although that doesent means marriage will fail. With time, dedication and good communication its possible to solve any problem that its presented, but always if love exist.    

(March 20, 2012)

Endangered Cultures

Every culture around the world has its space between us. I think each time we keep on moving killing languages and also cultures all around the world, we are destroying not just a home for hundredths of people or the native tradition of an old community, we are little by little harming our selves our integrity as human beings. We cant think just because I have a nice house it doesn't matters anything to me if a group of people in India is displaced or moved form their land just because they find better industrial use for that space. We live all on a same world, a world that we all need to take care of, a world that need to be loved and how are we gonna take care of the world if we are busy fighting against each other? We are borthers and sisters and each time a culture is harmed we are harming a little bulb that gives its shininess to the world (our world). That is what makes the world so interesting and beautiful, all the cultures, all the languages, all the colors, all the people every person matters. I don't think its correct having just one culture in all the world, only one language for all the world, starting with the problem, which one should we use? probably third world war would take place deciding a "simple" choice like that, no, that's the amazing thing that pushes you to travel, to ask your self, what is it like to be right now at the forest surrounded by indians?, how indigenous people live?, how the heck people survive in a desert. Those are the facts of our world and we need to take care of them so maybe on a future they maybe take care of us, or they already took care of us on the past, who knows? 

(February 8, 2012)

My name is Giancarlo Cabrales Mendez, I come from Santa Marta, Im 18 years old and Im studing Industrial Engineering in la Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla. Im studing english because its for me the most important language in the moment and one of my biggest dreams is have the opportunity of workin and being succesfull in U.S.A. Thats my reason for studing english and I hope ill achive an excelent english level that permits me live and interact with americans.