Luis Enrique Alvizuri in english

Peruvian and low self-esteem

2009-07-22T15:16:00.000-07:00

The case of the excitement that was in Peru's participation in a Peruvian Brenda Mau Spanish popular amateur singing, in 2009, demonstrated once again the classic problem of Peruvians, we have self-esteem low enough to assess just what is certified by foreigners. This mentality prevents us from seeing for ourselves the difference between white and black, between big and small. We expect that whenever a "superior" we say so. Those are our values so far and today has more merit than a Peruvian not have some special quality, but rather come from abroad with some "success" or any prize.

And that is lifelong. Comes from Peruvian and Ima Sumac, Luis Alva Alejandro Olmedo or "Victorious" abroad when nobody knew, until the current Juan Diego Flores, Claudia Llosa, Gianmarco, Sofia Mulanovich, Kina Malpartida, Pizarro, Farfan, Damaris, and many most people, following the same path, send us the sad message to all Peruvians that only if we show something out of our country is that really exist and Valdres.

The outside is worth it
However, none of these characters mentioned is a real representative of the Peruvian, the Peruvian culture (although governments use them as "products of export and as a demonstration that we are in the best of all possible worlds"). They, being good at her job, not the result of what we really are, but on the contrary is absolutely efforts of private, personal, devoid of any national collective. They are not the result of our history and our reality. What they are and what they have is mainly due to how useful are the causes and interests of other countries, but not ours. Our football is a proof of this: and here it is a disaster then embellish look at how to play our European teams. Are these values and objectives that build a nation? Challenge is to "lift his head" just sacándola out the window.

The representatives are not the true model to follow
None of them follows the example shown opposite personalities as Chabuca Granda Felipe Pinglo, César Vallejo, JC Mariategui, JM Arguedas, Pedro Suárez Vértiz, Raúl García Zárate and many others among us who were pure press and taking into account our own reality and our limitations . Given his absence we are seeking out a Consolation we can not be here without taking into account that personal success does not always go hand in hand with reality by passing through a village.

The false comfort as saying
But there are those who say that nobody is prophet in his land. That is completely untrue. Ask the Beatles to Michael Jackson, Los Angeles Lakers and a lot of American and European artists and more if they agree with that. They are Prophets in the land. Even in Argentina and Brazil on the bandwagon are your own fellow Countryman. At the same Kjarkas Bolivia are the idols without having international awards. However local media in an attempt to show that this "system" promoted by the neo-liberal power is the best we have these Peruvians (some who long ago ceased to be for having lived all his life abroad or by having another nationality) as a demonstration of success when in reality it is not. No institution, public or private, so they helped make what they did. So what merit to add to the "triumph" of them when to get involved in anything? What is the relationship between the Peruvian government makes Neoliberalism and victory, if it is rather the lack of internal support for these characters had to migrate?

How long?
You can not expect our servile mentality change and putting down the applause and praise just evil that afflicts us. In this way children will learn only that the only way is to go abroad because there is nothing here to do. I always thought that only when there are good here is that if you will. In conclusion: the best career for Peruvians migrate Spilling out all its virtue and achievements for use by others and not for our country. Therefore, if we do not start to change this way of being-with a warning about what is wrong with this type of stress-phenomena continue waiting for someone to do something here that was born out where we can just rejoice and say: "what Peru is beautiful. "

From Uncle Sam to "father" Sam

2009-07-20T14:22:00.000-07:00

The secretary of state of the Democrat Bill Clinton, Madeline Albright, in the autumn of 1999, seven months after the bombing started by the U.S. of Belgrade, said: "U.S. is good. We try to do our best everywhere. "When asked for the death of over half a million Iraqi children due to" economic sanctions "led by U.S., Albright told CBS television that" we think it is a price worth paying to advance the political objectives of fundamentally honorable U.S. "

This is nothing more than an imperial logic, the strongest and who has the upper hand: it was decreed that, in essence, the good, and that is all that is done the right thing. When thinking about it can not fail to recall our childhood that illustrates the best this psychological aspect. When is a child and is taxable as everything that we know the world is through our parents, who are the first to tell us what is and what is not in life. While we are under their total dependency we can not think otherwise because it is the only source of truth we have. But when time passes and we begin to hear other opinions is where the doubt begins to realize that our parents might not have the whole truth.

The truth is always relative

There are beginning to conflict with the authority because we discover that there is a factor in life, in the sense that we are quickly aware that there is no absolute truth in life or nature. This happens in all the peoples of the earth and no one is excluded from this collection (unless it is a totally disabled and dependent). It is at this moment, when we differentiate what we are told by parents of what we found outside the home, which the opposition and rebellion, the comparison and evaluation, exchange of views and to breakage. This is crucial because, if not, mankind would not change and never remain the same as always after millions of years.

The truth is I

So, taking up the concept that motivates our writing, we could say that United States, the "father" of humanity today, holds its truths in the strength of his power, which in fact is what gives the orders, without need to justify them. The argument is direct: I am the reason why I'm good. Everything I do is right because I'm the boss. However, we know that is an unacceptable logic but against that we can not deal simply because we are subjected as a child who has no ability to deny the father simply because it loads it and puts it on the site you want. But babies are we that we have no option of questioning the truths imposed? Let's see.

Love interest

Mentally we are not because we realize the injustice and deception in which we live. So what happens, why we ended by agreeing, dumb, and that way of thinking without resist? The answer seems obvious: interest. Before the giant is a good subject because, if you do not, you crushed. It's that simple. It is the rule that accepts no contradictions or voice rises. But it is terrible that never fail to take the menial these arguments as true and believe at face value, as sacred commandments. Those who love the empire and die because they belong to it, and nationalizing be treated as one of its citizens. And the reason is very simple: for the benefits that derive from it. But the question we raise is: does it make if it were a country United States as the Congo or Bolivia? Certainly not because it is a "love" interest. They want because it is strong and powerful, but not because they think and feel.

Sin no negation maturity

In our countries there are many who are subjected to this logic and do very well because they can enjoy a privileged status as first-class citizens. Travel as often as they want to rule and do business with him, thus becoming mandarins in their home countries. That's why they become prophets of the American way of life and praise to that country rather than his own, which are backward and end. All this makes it simple opportunism, the same as when France was in the middle of the nineteenth century, was also a world power. Unfortunately these individuals abound and are almost always those in the higher strata of society and, finally who assume power and turn their nations dependent on the absolute power of the moment. Looking at the composition of power in Latin America have discovered that this phenomenon is a constant. This is a perverse logic that only through the negation of the "father", that is, with maturity, can be overcome and fight.

When an icon dies

2009-07-20T14:20:00.000-07:00

It is symptomatic that in the economic crisis affecting the structure of the capitalist system as a popular idol Michael Jackson pass away. Are those confluences of life that seem to be carried by a mysterious hand that tries to tell us what the facts are never isolated. With Jackson is also a lot of history and a model of making money through music.

Remember that everything started with the invention of the phonograph, when he saw that the sound reproducing apparatus that could be a good business. The most fertile land for such a thought could not be other than United States, a nation that emerged first as a hope for those seeking a better world and ended up being the ideal market to the emerging capitalist ideas need to impose trade Modernity. Before this device the music did not occupy other space than he had throughout human history: the seats and the palaces of the powerful. The music was live music from the stand and had to reckon with the inevitable.

Born a product

Everything changed with the commercialization of the phonograph. The musician was not only necessary for the initial recording. Since then his work could be heard in an infinite, while it can play back the recording. Then, at that time, the music business, a business that was modest in the beginning but eventually reached an unexpected magnitude. Over time, managers and owners of the trade are found they had other elements besides the music and also yielded dividends. At that time was called merchandaising music, all the paraphernalia about the music side.

A character artist

Thus, if the musicians simply used for festivals and celebrations and popular figures rose to become special, gifted become heroes for millions of people. The industry needed to sell superlativizarlos wonderful objects. Around them was invented a number of elements ranging from the legend to the stormy life that attracts people. An artist, for the seller, had to take additional attributes besides their own art. Many were unable to cross the barrier because they did not fit into the new archetype of the artist. They were too modest, physically unattractive and devoid of "defects" that make the charm of the ordinary human being that can not be to be beyond their ability to solve them.

The buyer decides

This is how, and entered the twentieth century, folk artists slowly became gaunt and very professional gentlemen to become what the imagination of the consumer, the buyer of its products, wanted. The call was only for classical music all that the people could not assimilate to their excessive complexity and distance from the village. The Bach, the Mozart, the Paganini and Verdi were removed from the gods of Olympus for not fit within the schemes of mass consumption. Were put in place popular singers, young and beautiful, that meet interests beyond the purely musical.

Go down

We arrived so early in the twenty-first century, in which industry, reported that much money into the pockets of drivers for sound companies, are affected by another invention: the Internet. While not a fatal blow, began to decline as the business is no longer possible to make large numbers of old. The culmination of that time was Mr Michael Jackson, who was responsible for creating the most lucrative in the history of music. It was the golden time in which consumption increased numbers never before seen. But the highlight was the basis of which everything would be downhill.Was no longer possible to control the medium where the music was kept. Now could be accessed for free, with no producer to charge for this service.

Dream Lives

Today the business is no longer as before but still produces millions, primarily by the so-called royalties for reproduction in other media (including television, radio, etc.). And for advertising and tickets to concerts. But the old disk, the element where the sound is no longer the center of the profits. But despite that still dreams, fantasies and dreams that these musicians have become almost magical beings, causing the common citizen. Like the gladiators of the Roman circus, or the poets of Greek golden age, folk artists concentrate all efforts and frustrations of contemporary man.

Everything happens

What's true in all this? The same certainty that exists in the imagination and hopes of the majority. This soon fades, everything shows how fragile and ephemeral as the time spent.Remain in the memory of those who experienced it, but new generations will see it only as a reference, passed as a strange and incomprehensible, something of their own parents and how they saw the world when they were young. The business has changed the world and also the emotions experienced will fade like those of humans thousands of years ago who also thought that his time was infinite.

The high price of fame

Artists like Mr. Jackson, like others in the music and sports, were only instruments in the service of an industry and paid the price for it. Become common products sacrificing their lives will never be something easy to handle and usually ends up consuming the simple spirit of the artist for whom the sole aim of his life, his art was to not assume a role that demanded focus more on the superficial and collateral to the merits of his trade. However, although this is very well know, many individuals, often with very little artistic skills, are willing to be treated in the manner that is as long as these products become, similar to those slaves who voluntarily are close to the auction to offer their services to the love you want.

Education is not the master

2009-07-20T14:03:00.000-07:00

It is sad and disastrous role in education, carried out the Peruvian government of Alan García's second term.Indeed, had the only goal was to disrupt the Union Single Peruvian Education Workers (SUTEP), on behalf of this right, whose obsession is to disappear permanently be the largest political union and important country.

The whole process "evaluation" done was merely a ploy to undermine and weaken the foundations of the union. Out of this highly political commitment, everything else was a disgrace (intentionally). To this was added the physical disappearance of the Ministry of Education (with the express purpose of not giving the opportunity SUTEP have a "visible enemy" where demand and focus) and the reality of investment figures, the budget for education was the most low in the history of Peru.

Except the master, the rest is illusion

But apart from the usual corruption with regard to works and purchases typical Aprista party, was also transmitted to people the idea that "education is a synonym for teacher." That is a real fallacy, which, unfortunately, no serious teacher dared to clarify.Educators prestige, as long as not to alienate the government and apparently "anti" (real fear of all) were silent and did not clarify the mouth that education is not based only on the master. Education is a specialty and a complex technology that goes beyond what the teacher says in class. It involves, as axis most important educational policy and standards, in addition to a resume in a word, not the important thing is how (the master) but he (the subject to be taught). All that, plus a number of key elements for the formation of a people, were both Olympic neglected by the government as their accomplices fearful, education experts.Everyone jumped on the cart "education is the teacher" and threw the trash hundreds of years of neglect in the art of educating thousands of scientific concepts and more about how to do it.Everything was the teacher, the teacher, the teacher ...

Education is always dangerous

And the script was the following speech: "The teacher is solely responsible for education, as education is bad in Peru, because the teacher is the one who is evil. And why is wrong? By strikes, marches and politicking of SUTEP. Conclusion: If you want a good education, then remove the SUTEP. This was the strategy followed and should not be designed to be Machiavellian. Does anyone have complained? So it was a political operation developed by people from a government to educate the people who always knows more "anti" most rebellious, revolutionary going to claim rights to protest and learned in the classroom. The real education, that kind of training that aims to transform man and make you see your reality, is the kind of education that no traditional Latin-American government would like to see "their" people. That is why I wanted things to remain as they are, the differences are increasingly abysmal between top and bottom, which facilitates the use of power and makes the ignorant governable. Education in Peru, as in most Latin American countries, is the cornerstone that will build for tomorrow, or a herd of beings crushed, or a dignified and conscious of their destiny and their obligations and rights.

2009-07-20T13:26:00.000-07:00

Classic football classic fights

Usually not be prudent to comment on me, but sometimes the occasion allows it despite the risks.Sports, competitive physical activities, are channeling the emotions of the masses. But for these safety valves are concerns accumulate, causing wars and rebellions of all sorts. This is the ABC of any geopolitical reminiscent lot to Rome and his "bread and circuses."

In the case of certain countries, where the frustration is even higher, the need to maximize the importance of sports is crucial, combined with large doses of eroticism and Tannates through the pages of entertainment. For all that is known today as "psychosocial strategies. With regard to Peru in particular, the excellent sport is football because it is collective and masculine, which allows their identification with the most aggressive segment of the population. After a day of football this sector, which has the highest potential for violence is satisfied its need for expansion and catharsis. There may be excess, as manifestations of the white bars, but they are minimal compared with what could be generated if there is no football. In the famous book The End of History and the Last Man Francis Fukuyama Pentagon adviser mentions that modern governments must promote and enhance sport in society as a way to channel the forces passive, if not, could explode in otherwise.

In this corner, white

Regarding this, it's really interesting phenomenon of the two most popular teams in Peru, Alianza Lima and Universitario de Deportes (U), because in some ways reflects the two types of psychology that relate to that polarization always accompanies every society. Usually those who are usually identified with the U of the upper class to the extent that such facility is associated with "white" (which also includes the bias to be as intelligent and above) since it was originally a team university students, which was the more affluent and educated segment of the country at the time that was created at the beginning of the twentieth century. At the same time it is associated with the concept of "Lima" and "champion", for which many immigrants in their process of assimilation into the capital, the first thing they do is "adapt" to the new society "including" as fans the U.

In this one, blacks

In contrast to the Alliance is associated with "black", which in turn are the poor (because, unlike the aristocrats of college then, is the team who was born in the neighborhood, in the alley with a rag ball ). This represents the lower classes, but the disadvantaged are able to do "deeds" such as to win "the rich" of the U. Since the beginning of the classic story is about these experiences and the real party is not really when you win the U-It is assumed that the patterns should always be the best "- but when you win Alliance, which is when the poor gain the bottom. They are usually the most emotional of the Peruvian people, who are somehow dissatisfied with society, and love to support the weaker, which swell on this computer.

The most popular

But it is symptomatic is a recent survey by the Catholic University(http://blog.pucp.edu.pe/fernandotuesta/alianza-lima-en-lo-mas-alto) which indicated that the popularity of the Alliance was higher to the U. These figures were usually very close before, but the fact that they would be inclined to Alliance now be interpreted in several ways: as the population has increased less favored, as the migration to Lima has slowed, as the provinces are losing the fear to be compared to Lima, which no longer exist as the Lima that can discriminate between provinces or that poverty rates have increased. We are making a speculation about the expected results, later, other readings may arise or different explanations.

Where it comes from the classical

It reproduces well, cyclically, in such event, the "classic" fight very well specified in the Roman circus, the murmillos and reciario between heaven and earth, between Scorpio and Cancer, among the gods and the men, between rich and poor. That is the cause of the passion that awakens all classical world as they are everywhere and in all sports (in Argentina, for example, the team Boca Juniors is the equivalent of Alianza Lima, as River Plate, known as as "millionaires", as the U). This is the fight that keeps life moving and carrying water to the masses, via a non-verbal speech, example of this eternal struggle which says life is a coming and going, it's one day and one night a birth and death, one win and one loss, it is freedom and domination, it is poverty and wealth. That is the message that contains all classical (recalling that means from classical antiquity has always since the beginning of time).

Concerned about our country

2009-07-20T13:13:00.000-07:00

NOTE: Article reflection published by Dr. John Odría Borea, Director of the College of Hector Cardenas, during Fiestas Patrias Peru.

Fiestas Patrias offer us the opportunity to visit some of our beautiful homeland, but also give us a few days released the overwhelming pace of daily life that we can devote some time to reflect. When a person is not given for reflection inevitably lose much of their personal decision and end up dancing to what others get.

As a citizen, I reflect on the past few months and come on and feel concern. The conflicts that erupted violently is far from being resolved, they are only postponed, and new conflicts in the background. Not all conflict is bad and is a historical fact that societies are moving in the midst of conflict, and if they did not exist "status quo" acquire patent eternity. So ... how to turn the conflict into a source of new favorable situation for the majority?

The causes of conflict

The first step is awareness of the causes of the situation of the actors and the environment in which they thrive. In this step we have failed a lot in recent times and especially in the conflict in Amazonian communities. Number of blurred vision, biased, ignorant or interested deformed mingled with the more accurate, so in this mare magnum of views was difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Mutual interests

A second step, when you really know this, is to seek the interests of the parties involved. The word "interest" is not understood in a negative way. Each social group has rights and legitimate interests that are needed to harmonize with others to get together. Demonize the interests of another group attempting to devote themselves as if they were of all is a common but mistaken face situations.

Conscious dialogue

Once interest is the work of dialogue, which must begin with each group making an awareness of their genuine interest (not always aware of them) and take too aware of what is of interest to the adversary (which calls placed in the shoes of the other). Without this step falls into a "dialogue of the deaf" doomed to failure. The dialogue often requires an intermediary acting as a catalyst and help prosecute.

The solution with concession

Produced dialogue must be a solution. A solution requires mutual concessions to move forward. It is the responsibility of those involved in this that these concessions do not affect the existence, rights, and the ethos that sustains human groups. When this process does not occur, is the road of violence, which can be expressed in clashes in the open or to subjugate each other, which is violent, but it can be mistakenly confused with the peace (in any case would be the peace of the cemeteries).

Actors responsible

In conflict resolution there are many social responsibility. Not only the executive enters into dance. There are the responsibility of other branches of government (Legislative, Judicial, Electoral), the regional and local governments, the churches, public and private institutions, the media, the social leaders. The concern that I assaulted a citizen is: dowe have institutions capable of dealing with the conflict? Will force some actors to fill the obvious shortcomings of others?

The responsibility of the citizen

In any case, the citizens on the street "we have an important role to play. Sitting to criticize without providing the social construction of the necessary information for their own education and those who depend on us is, in essence, a betrayal of our civic duty.Because it is only when citizens feel responsibility for the country and is honored that responsibility with actions.

Juan Borea Odría

College Héctor Cárdenas

Jesus Maria, Peru.