Parias Urbanos ( Loic wacquant ) code: 305.56w115p.1a.ed.c.1

This book talks about the social segregation that different Nations started to have since 1980, with the consolidation of the capitalist system, and then free trade treatment. This kind of system has made a serious transformation within societies. To start with, the capitalist system segregates the society in two poles in that there are people who can afford their basical needs and more, and people who can not afford their basical needs, in simple words the “rich” and the “poor”. The tragical thing here is that this capitalist system has been taken as a natural thing, leaving those people separate of the society, since they can not participate if they don’t have the economical status to participate in this consumist system.
Secondly, the effects of this economic polarization it can be seen geografically, because of the communities that are marginalize have a specific territory in the urban cities. Also it can be seen the increase in robbers in marginal communities, this happen because of the lack of opportunities to work that people who live in this communities have. This is a cause of the discrimination existing in this kind of society, that stigmatized people who came form this marginalized area of the city.
Thirdly, the free trade has destroyed the economic life within the differents countries around the world, the small National companies, and the craftwork was destroyed by the bigger industries of massive production.
In addition, in some countries there are racism with some natives communities that inmigrates, such as afroamerican communities in Northamerica, and others countries has racism problems with their own natives communities. Society give them less opportunities to get an important job, so this maintain the segregation within societies.
All in all, the book contains plenty of examples of the circumstances in that live the differents marginated communities, and it gives you a complete analysis of how we get to this type of society, and how affect it.

National Holiday

In my opinion national holidays are just a way to reinforce a national sentimental. Nevertheless in my case I have a disagreement with the way in that they construct our Nation, just fights … and the Government likes to promote that fact, for instance in schools institutions teach children that the war is the way to get a piece of land, and they teach to adore war heroes, in conclusion all is military, and that make sick, since they never talk about the dialogue and communication in an effective way, the really understanding of the human life, etc.
I’ve never understood why Government gives help to Mapuches students, and schools try to give recognition, when they always have been seen Mapuche people like a threat to the country, and there has been an internal fight for years, I think that is very contradictory.
I have to say the only way in that I feel Mapuche is in the submission, and don’t ask me why… don you feel like that? You opinion have no place in this system. So I would say that I’m not feel very comfortable living in this kind of society, and even less I feel proud to be “Chilean”, I mean… what it means to be Chilean?

The Bluest Eye ( Toni Morrison) Code: 813M883.E

The story is about a black girl called Pecola, she belongs to avery poor and breake up family. Pecola is a girl who had sufered too much in life, since her father was alcoholic, and her mother a woman who live in an unreal world, because she think that the world was what she have seen in television: a happy and perfect white families. When in Pecola’s house there was conflicts, parents argues, etc. She used to hide her self, and she started to think in that she has beautyful blue eyes (as Shirley Temper) that made that everybody stop to fight and love her. However, The life of Pecola turns worse when her father raped her, and nobody could help her,she got pregnant, then she lost the baby, but her father rapes her again, finally she got crazy, and she assume that she got blue eyes (is a tragedy). The story is related by a very young girl (Claudia), a friend of Pecola, who despite to be younger than Pecola, she could see the world with sensibility and objectively, because she can not understand why she should want to be alike to a charcter that appears on TV, when she saw that everyone have a singular beauty and kindness.
In my opinion, the writer is trying to show the awful reality that the poor black people live, because of discrimination. They feel apart from the society since in that period of the history people were more racist and ignorant. furthermore, Afroamerican people lived something like a sub-life, in which they accepted their kind of life, or almost some of them really think that they were lower than a white person.
I think that, the main topic of the book is that create images in television or magazines are always telling us what is the concept of beauty, when basically, the concept of beauty is abstract. Moreover, maybe put icons of everything such as, beauty, fashion, to name but two, it makes society separates more, beacuse when you feel that you do not fit in with some trend, you tend to feel apart from the society.