Wednesday, 15/10/2014

RACE AND ETHNICITY

Today we work with some inquiry or inquest of different place of the world (Ecuador, England, Spain, USA...) and we had to identify the questions about ethnicity and/or raze of each country.

SURVEY OF REPUBLIC OF ECUADOR

-There are some questions that only emigrant people have to answer ("IV. Information about emigrants to other countries)
-Head of household (male or female)
-What is the lenguage or dialect yhat he/she speaks?
-How does he/she consider himself/herself: Indigenous, Black (Afro-Ecuadorian), Mestizo, Mulato, White, or Other?
-Where was he/she belong to?
- Where does he/she usually live?
+ there are many questions about education, but we don't know if there are related with the race or ethnics 

ENGLISH SURVEY

-What is your country of birth?
-What is your ethnic group?
-What is your religion?

SPANISH SURVEY

-pais de nacimiento
-cual es su nacionalidad
-donde nacio el padre?
-donde nacio la madre?
-va a algun centro escolar? -cual es el mayor nivel de estudios que ha completado?
-tiene hijos? cuantos?

CANADIAN SURVERY

-Which lenguages do you speak?

BRAZILIAN SURVEY

-State
-Color or race
-Religion
-How many years lived in municipality wiyhout interruption?
-Born in this municipality
-Born in this state
-What is your nationality
-In what year did you become a resident of Brazil
-What is the Brazilian state or foregin country of birth?
-Have long have you lived without interruption in this state?
-Prior Brazilian state or foregin country of residence
-In which municipality did you live on July 31, 1995?
-In which Brazilian state of foregin country did you live on July 31, 1995?
-In which municipality and state or foregin country do you work study?
-What was the nature of the last union?

Then, we watched a video about 2 roman women, how they are working.

•  Do we really know the Roma? (9')
• I'm a European Roma Woman (4')

                                                       

Tuesday, 14/10/2014

CHAPTER 6: ETHNICITY

Yesterday Paloma had explained the next chapter, number 6 and here is the mindmap of Ethnicity.

Here is my mindmap and the link : https://www.examtime.com/es-ES/mind_maps/1766714/edit

Wednesday, 8/10/2014

COAT OF ARMS

Here I leave the links of my coat of arms. I made two because I had problems with the first one and  just in case.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06bLL6hCFzw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pMZpXCAnK0&list=UUnHFCJ-VpfNh4XpVWZBt6LQ

And here is my self ebaluation:

POSITIVE THINGS                     +	THINGS TO IMPROVE                     -
I made with slides and explaining each one.	I have to be more calm.
I  made in a beautiful environment what it makes more tolerable the video.	I could edit the video adding photos and music
I  show my-self in depth.	In the first video I had cuted my head and I could look more to the camera instead around me.

QUESTION:

My question will be for June: The symbol you ahd choosen is like that makin a heart  or in the other side?

Tuesday,7/10/2014

We made the Quiz and we watched some videos about schooling in the world, here we have the link and a brief summary of that videos:

SCHOOLING IN THE WORLD

LINK OF THE VIDEOS:

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLSIgZWNR9M&list=PLghrtJuXGHZC1qWiY0jNm52vt-9PF-CaH&index=1

SUMMARY:

The video has 7 parts but in the class we just saw three of them. These videos show us how English-speakers countries such as United Kingdom or USA had done in schools with native people. We can see that they do positive thing like give education to everybody but there are other negative aspects as try to change foreign people’s traditions. An example of this we can find at the beginning of the video, a native woman says that according to the teachings of the Buddha they raised their children but nowadays children go to the school to learn the same basic thing. She beliefs that that kind of values should be respected. We have to teach that basic thing like maths but in every place there are different point of view, different believes and different cultures and traditions and we must respect that things and teach without trying to change it because all us can we learn a lot of things from another culture of country.

Nowadays with the globalization we are losing those special things because we go out to another country and we try to do and to eat just things that we know that we like instead of try to do new things.

After that we can see that as almost every child in the world, when you ask them what they want to be when the grow up they want to have an important job such as doctor and earn a lot of Money. Here we can appreciate that even they are native, foreign, gipsy or black children they want for their future the same as other children.

The videos try to show that education is essential. But it’s not. We need to communicate, to be independient, to grow as a person because it gives us knowledge and information about us, about our environment and about general and particular thing in the world and life. Like for us is very normal to have education we don’t see as a priviliage but with videos like this we can see the reality such us in some places of the world too many children just know to take care the land or the animals. But they are also important, school is important but you can live without it.

Another point is that in many places in the world children are exploit or they have drugs or other kind or problems and because of this among other thing nowadays in countries as USA exist children poverty. But this happens around the world and because of this, the rich person becomes richer and the poor one, more poor.

Wednesday,01/10/2014

POSSIBLE QUESTIONS FOR THE QUIZ

The question that my group makes.

1. Syllabus

What percentage do individual assignments count for?

a. 10%

b. 20%

c. 30%

d. 40%

2. Citizenship and human rights

What are the main sources for finding my Fundamental Rights: EU and Spain? Mark all that apply.

a. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948

b. Constitucion Espanola, 1978

c. Magna Carter, 1957

d. European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights, 2000

3. What is anthropology?

What were the first subjects that American anthropologists studied in the 19^thcentury?

a. Gorillas and apes

b. The native peoples of North America

c. African Americans

d. Pilgrims

4. What is culture?

What level of culture embodies beliefs, behavioral patterns, values, and institutions that are shared by citizens of the same nation?

a. National culture

b. International culture

c. Subcultures

d. Ideal culture

Tuesday,30/10/2014

We saw in class the second chapter about culture and then( and the next day) in groups, we thought about some examples of each category of the chapter. Here are the example we made in my group (Anouk,Amy,Maria…)

EXAMPLES OF CULTURE

What is culture?

·         When parents teach their children to say “please” and “thank you”

·         Americans walk on the right side

·         The distance individuals should maintain when talking to one another is learned through observations

·         Spanish people give kisses on the cheek when they meet, Americans shake hands

CULTURE IS SYMBOLIC

·         flags

·         national anthem

·         language

·         traffic signs

CULTURE AND NATURE

·         Americans have their main meal at dinner, Spanish at lunch

·         Meal times differ as well: Americans eat dinner much earlier than Spanish

·         Cuisine is unique to a culture

CULTURE IS ALL-ENCOMPASSING

Topics to consider when studying culture:

·         Food

·         Religion

·         Mass media

·         Art

·         History

CULTURE IS INTEGRATED

“Our core values”

·         Work ethic

·         Individualism

·         Patriotism

PARTICULARITY: PATTERNS OF CULTURE

Ø universal

·         long period of infant dependency

·         year-round sexuality

·         life in groups

·         being in some kind of family

Ø generality

·         America: nuclear family

Ø Particularity

·         McDonald’s menu differing in different cultures

·         MTV

CULTURE AND THE INDIVIDUAL: AGENCY AND PRACTICE

Ideal Culture/ Real Culture:

·         Everyone has the right to vote, not everyone does

·         We have specific dietary guidelines, obesity is a critical problem

ETHNOCENTRISM, CULTURAL RELATIVISM, AND HUMAN RIGHTS

·         medicinal plants: hoodia plant in the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa now used in diet pills

Here is my mindmap about second chapter, culture.

and the link https://www.examtime.com/es-ES/mind_maps/1450059/edit