RE: Email from Joe Biden: A reason to smile

Just got an email from Vice President Joe Biden, one of the many change.org emails thousands of people get at least once a week...I mostly don't read these...but the subject line on this one caught my attention "A Reason to Smile" the body of the email went on to promote/support Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court "This week, when the President first told me he'd chosen Elena Kagan to serve on the Supreme Court, I couldn't help but smile...."However unlike the many other times in which I had simply deleted the email- I decided to reply:

Dear Vice President Biden, I sincerely wish I had a reason to smile. However, the lack of an initiative from the White House, and specifically President Obama and yourself to simply meet the four students who had walked all the way from Miami to D.C. to stand up for their dreams makes me very sad. I cannot fathom, why these four brave youths were refused a meeting with the President after completing such a long and hard journey, if anything, they deserved at least that. I plead for them and the 65,000 others who will graduate this Spring from high schools all over our nation and for the thousands of others who in previous years have responded to our investment in their education with the highest grades and honors and with the most exemplary conduct we could ask of any resident of our great country. I plead for these kids, who having endured seemingly impossible hardships and obstacles continue to surprise us with their successes and dreams everyday.
I hope that you and the President find it in your hearts to hear out these youths, and issue an executive order to halt the deportation of so many of these exemplary students, letting many of them complete their education and fully contribute to the country they love. And to, as offered during the campaign, really push for the passage of the DREAM act, since these kids need it now more than ever.

I have never been in their place, but I have studied alongside many of them. I thank you for taking the time to read this, and hope that you can realize how truly life changing this executive order could be to so many kids and young people.

Tondero....asi se baila

marinera en san miguel

i like the dancers and overall context of this video-

mas sobre los comentarios que tildan de racista a Claudia Llosa

Es triste que siga existiendo tanto odio y que las personas se encierren en ideologias y pensamientos que solo motivan a crear mas odio...todos tenemos que poner nuestro granito de arena para cambiar esto y ante todo respetar la obra artistica de aquellos que tienen el coraje para crear sin mayor apoyo de nadie, y mucho menos del estado. El proceso creativo de todos los artistas Peruanos se debe de apoyar y no se debe censurar a travez de parametros falsos de lo que debe o no debe constituir una expresion artistica. Es obvio que dado a nuestra historia como pais exista un fuerte resentimiento racial y social, mas no se pueden usar tales experiencias como excusa para cometer los mismos actos en contra de otros. Si se exige respeto se debe dar respeto. Y tal como lo dice el resto se debe presenciar de manera directa la pelicula antes de llegar a cualquier conclusion. No por ser indigenas dejamos de ser complejos o nos convertimos en seres “perfectos,” no somos piezas de museo por lo contrario somos individuos como Magaly Solier con ganas de mostrar lo que somos y lo que podemos lograr- dejemos de apoyar a la anulacion de nuestra propia creatividad como individuos- porque eso llega a ser mas peligroso que cualquier imposicion "extranjera." Si Magaly Soler, que en numerosas entrevistas a demostrado ser una mujer excepcionalmente madura e inteligente decide no solo participar como parte del reparto pero mas que nada como ella misma explica "denunciar" por medio de su trabajo actoral las injusticias que ella percibio durante su ninez- no debe ser nuestro papel anular sus esfuerzos-con retoricas ideologicas situadas fuera de contexto- si no mas bien escuchar y actuar para verdaderamente cambiar los diversos problemas que existen en nuestro pais. Es cierto que tenemos la responsabilidad de denunciar el racismo en el Peru, pero mas que eso debemos buscar la manera de corregir este comportamiento- y poco a poco lo estamos logrando- pero inculcar el odio o el desprecio a cierta clase social o etnica no hace mas que incrementar y justificar al racismo. Muy personalmente agradezco que porfin se lleve a la pantalla grande a actores y actrices de origen realmente serrano que demuestran nuestro lenguaje, acento y nuestros manerismos -que son muy distintos a las de aquellos que crecen o nacen en Lima.

reflexions on Claudia Llosa, La Teta Asustada and Madeinusa

Most of the criticism against La Teta Asustada (in Peru and by Peruvians) yields from Llosa's previous film Madeinusa. They perceive Llosa's portrayal of Andean life as racist and malicious, and condemn Llosa for depicting Andeans as savages and immoral beings. These critics are blinded by their own rethoric and prejudice and fail to see that Llosa is perhaps the only director who has taken the time to look at Andeans as something other than "pan flute bands" or stylized "folk dancers" or any other type of mocked cultural exports that must restrain themselves to concur with the mandated parameters of others. What both Llosa and Magaly Solier achieve is a more complete and complex portrait of Andean people and most specifically Andean women. They see Andean women as something more than brown women wearing braids (as was disappointingly the case with another Peruvian film set in the Andes: Paloma de Papel- where a Limena actress parades around the Andes with badly attached "braids" and a Lima accent)...Essentially I find the call for so called "political correctness"- to be an unwillingness to accept what was bound to happen in a country like Peru- where el Cono Norte and most importantly la Sierra are finally taking the places they deserve in society. Fortunately it seems that we are experiencing the beginning of the end of this paternalistic and hypocritical will to let things stay as they were for more than 500 years... Therefore what we have seen with Madeinusa and now again with La Teta Asustada is that this monumental change in Peru, as expected, is generating substantial discomfort...


"The debates around this new, non-national cinema have been most intense in the case of Madeinusa, a film praised outside the country but almost universally disdained by the intellectual elite within it. I argue, however, that there is no is no point lamenting the failure of Peruvianness, cinematic or otherwise. Such laments have defined the elite variant of (not) Peruvianness ever since the nineteenth century at least, but melancholy declarations of exasperation with Peru's multiple failures are no more than an inverted form of the snobbery, racism, and will to power of those who claim to condemn these same traits in others. Peru's newly exuberant subaltern cinema offers a way out, a line of flight, from such morose reflections on national identity on the part of a would-be hegemonic power whose project is now exhausted. " Jon Beasley-Murray

Quechua- Zona Central

Familia Quechua

From: alejacha, 3 months ago

Familia Quechua

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La situación del quechua actual es parecido a lo que pasó con el latín. El latin hablado durante el tiempo de Cristo, fue diversificándose para producir la familia de lenguas romances que tenemos hoy en día.


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