Black History Month

Black history month new from MCarmen Arroyo Rivera

HOMOSEXUALITY AND HOMOPHOBIA.

Homosexuality is a sexual orientation that is defined as the interaction or sexual, affective, emotional and sentimental attraction to the same sex.

The term homophobia refers to the obsessive aversion to homosexual men or women, but generally also to the other people who make sexual diversity is included, as is the case for bisexual or transgender people, and those commonly held attitudes or habits associated with the other sex, as metrosexuals.

People who feel attracted to the same sex are not sick, they are not rare, they are not different, they find love in another person, like everyone else, and while this couple this good, nothing else is matters. We do not have to believe us more than them, we have the same rights and are equal people.

 'We are lucky' because more and more people are more aware of that and have been many achievements in the last years, since a same-sex couple can marry until they can adopt.

And now,what can happens if the world was upside down? 

Black Month

                                BLACK MONTH

·DEFINITION:

-Black History Month, is the celebration of African-American History Month in America, is an annual observance in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom for remembrance of important people and events in the history of the African diaspora. It is celebrated annually in the United States and Canada In February and the United Kingdom in October.

-Woodson chose the second week of February for Negro History Week because it marks the birthdays of two men who greatly influenced the black American population, Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. However, February has much more than Douglass and Lincoln to show for its significance in black American history. For example:
1-.February 3, 1870: 
- The 15th Amendment was passed, granting blacks the right to vote.

2-. February 25, 1870:
-  The first black U.S. senator, Hiram R. Revels (1822-1901), took his oath of office.


3-. February 12, 1909: 

- The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was 
founded by a group of concerned black and white citizens in New York City.

4-. February 21, 1965:
- Malcolm X, the militant leader who promoted Black Nationalism, was shot to death by three Black Muslims.

·One of the example that we have in present is :
-Barack Obama that Democrat from Chicago, becomes the first African-American president and the country's 44th president in 2009.



                                                         Now we can see a video:

        

Peace over racism

We have studied what racism is and different types of racism, so, now, i'm going to talk about different people that have fought against racism, looking for a peaceful world.
But not all of them have made the same things, each one fought in his way and with their personal possibilities.
ROSA PARKS
Rosa parks was a woman that became famous in 1955, when she didn't allow a white person to occupe the bus site where she was sitting. Because of that, the bus driver called the police and they arrested her, obligating her to pay 14 dollars as a fine. After that, the Montgomery Improvement Association was created to fight against the laws of                                                                      the trasporting system.


MARTIN LUTHER KING
He was a man that made a lot of speeches talking about racism and how to eliminate it.
He defended the rights of the black people  because they weren't considered equal to the white ones. Some white people also join this group of protesters because they were tired of the big amount of inequalities, and they all fought by not using violence.


There are more and more, such as Mandela, Ghandi, Oskar Schindler, Rigoberta Menchú, etc., but I've chosen Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks because they represent the most important fight against racism in USA, and there is where is celebrated the Black Month to conmemorate the fight made to get the same rights for both, white and black people, in USA.

I want to end my post with a sentence that is really beautiful, and a short video from the portuguese government:
"I hope people finally realize that there is only one race - the human race and we are all members of it"

Discriminations

Do you know how many kinds of discrimination are there ?
Maybe this power point can help you.

http://es.slideshare.net/alminarcomenius11/discrimination-9299431?from_search=7

Holocausto, what's is it?

This power point shows us several holocausts in history

 http://es.slideshare.net/atkinsonms/holocaust-power-point?from_search=4

RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA

RACISM ~>

Racism is a discriminatory attitude, which is to consider that people who have a certain physical characteristics, such as a different skin tone, are therefore inferior intellectually, socially and morally to other people without these characteristics.

XENOPHOBIA ~>

"Xenophobia" means "fear of foreigners". This attitude is when a person feels scared to another person who has come from outside its territory. Usually emerges when a person feels threatened by another newcomer and think that person is going to make their actittude bad.

In the world, many people of another race have triumphed.

An example is Nelson Mandela who died recently, and always fought for equality for blacks.

RACISM

Before starting my entry, I'm going to say you it's very important to me that you read it, because I think you'll know new things about how racism have existed from years.

First of all, do you really know what racism is? Racism is not only killing black people, or forbid them doing some things, etc. Racism is anything you do, say or think which include discriminating someone for his or her race, it means, the colour, the ethnic group, …

Have you ever discriminated someone? It is really common to look a toy and see it says: made in China, or to go to a Chinese supermarket because it is cheaper, or to buy the scarves that black people are always selling in the beach, or simply to tell a joke about black or Asian people, and those things are from our daily life and we don’t realize. 

But racism is not something modern. It had existed for years and years. Ancient Egyptians had slaves, and, talking about slaves, do you remember the American War of Independence? It started in 1775 and a very important part of the American soldiers were black slaves who fought trying to obtain the freedom. They were voluntaries to participate in the militias, but, as they were refused, they started to fight in their account.

More recently, the Apartheid from Sudafrica, which consisted in separate black people from white ones. But when I say separate, I refer to, literally, separate things. For example, there were parks, benches, shops, districts, etc, only for white people. And the same for the others. Their objective was to conservate the authority of the white minority over the black majority.

Actually, we are also racists. When most of us think in a black person, we always imagine them very dirty, trying to reach Europe in a dinghy, begging on the street, or stealing shops. But we don’t think in people like Louis Amstrong, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Sidney Poitier, Spike Lee, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and, of course, Michael Jackson. They were black people, and they became famous because their work.

From my point of view, one of the most famous black people in the world is Nelson Mandela. He died with 95 years, and he is an example of fight for the black rights. He spent 27 years in prison only for try to obtain rights to his country and, even there, he was discriminated for been black. When he went out, he continued this work. He became president of Sudafrica, and he obtained a Nobel Peace Prize.

Original video from the song "we are the world"

CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

Increasingly, managers must deal with multiple ethnic groups with very different cultures. Thanks to globalization, you are likely to work with Japanese, French, Chinese, German and all sorts of other nationalities. It is important to recognize that people from different cultures are different in a variety of ways, including

• different ways of looking at things
• different ways of dressing
• different ways of expressing personality/goodness

These differences can cause problems interpreting what the other person is doing. Some simple examples:

• In the US, a firm, short handshake indicates self-confidence and (heterosexual) masculinity. A limp handshake by a man can be interpreted (usually wrongly) as a sign of homosexuality. But in most parts of Africa, a limp handshake is the correct way to do it. Furthermore, it is common in Africa for the handshake to last several minutes, while in the US a handshake that is even a few seconds too long is interpreted as familiarity, warmth and possibly sexual attraction.

• In Britain, men do not look at women in the streets but in France it's common to do it. Recently, a French public figure mentioned in a speech that British people are all gay. The evidence was their lack of overt interest in women.

Here is a video about how African people move to America and learn how people live there.

Three basic problems: interpreting others comments and actions, predicting behavior, and conflicting behavior:

Some Perceptions of Americans:

-Europe & especially England. "Americans are stupid and unsubtle. And they are fat and bad
dressers."

-Finland. "Americans always want to say your name: 'That's a nice tie, Mikko. Hi Mikko, how are
you Mikko'



-Indian. "Americans are always in a hurry. Just watch the way they walk down the street."

 
In my opinion we must read more information about how is life in other countries.                 It will help us to respect other cultures