Wednesday, August 27, 2014

I don't know anything. Really. (Why I did to choose Sociology?)


In the begginnig, the first time that i think in the future was in 2007. In this year, my college period comes to end. And then, my first though was "What now?. What is the path to follow it?". In the journey, i found tracks in the way. Just a little, enough to continue in the career.
In the first place, my interest in the society as a social system. With all the pieces, levels and meanings. Maybe because i don't be satisfied with the simple explanations. Was issuficient to me. Maybe because Im a complicated people.
In the second place, my family. I can't sleep in the bed all the life. I was pushed to the life, to the street, to the social group. And if i dont study, i have to work. And whitout a carrer, in Chile, you are nothing.
Except if you are son or daugther of a big family, from the Chilena Olygarchy. But it`s not the case.
We are just common people.
Then, i need to study. Sociology didn`t was the first option. Was "Design", "Animation", or  any carrer with a pencil, a draw, and a little of write. But my mother was scared for my future. She studied Desing in the past, ant she know the laboral field, and think I did a mistake.
Maybe was right. Maybe not.
Anyway, here I am. Study sociology in the Chile University, and maybe is not too bad. A little late to regret.


   

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

A Country I'd Like to visit.



It`s simple, i would like to visit Perú. It's a country unknown for me, full of mystery and magic, between the myth and the reality. They lived in Perú and for work issues come to Chile and tell me stories about Perú. One of them have a daughter, and she have native american genes. Seeing her, I can imagine the books of Isabel Allende and Gabriel García in the topic of "Magic-Realism". The book "The city of the beast" and "Macondo", with the myth of "El Dorado" fill my memories when I was a child.  Maybe it's just fantasy, but is the point.
When I listen "Perú", come to me images form the past. With them, the Inca Empire and the Maya civilization come back to me. Maybe it's the older enciclopedia from my father, or an ancient story from my uncle.
But the reality it's different. Perú it's a small country, with a ancestral culture and have real latin-american indian, and the local food it's sold on street. It`s different to Chile, but in one way is simillar: high social exclusion, and big economic inequality.