Friday, August 29, 2014

Music

Today's post is about music.
Music can be analyze from many different aspects. First I will write about how it is used to express different aspects of the culture of Chile and in general, then some psychological effects of listening music and finally I will write about the music I like. To start, music is the expression of different aspects of culture because it is made by the people to share it to the society. For example, if you analyze the music of Victor Jara you can comprehend how was the historical moment when he was living, with songs like "El derecho de vivir en paz" or "A desalambrar". Nowadays you can find popular artists that sing rap on the subway, wich reports the injustice of our society. Some other music, more industrial than the streets artists, also shows how the advances in technologies and industrialization have get to the music sphere.
Music also has psychological impacts, for example the classical can helps you to study (is relaxing) and electronic music is good for parties and making exercises. Also it has some effects on plants, for example Metal genre can make plants have stress, and the classical music make them grow faster.
Personally, I listen to many types of music. I like artists like Victor Jara very much, Yann Tiersen and The Cure are also my favorites, but it always depends of my mood, that's why something important about the music is how it has different pshycological effects.

Friday, August 22, 2014

A country I would like to visit

Hi everyone :) Today's post is about a country I would like to visit.
For me it's very difficult to pick just one country to visit because I would like to visit a lot of countries in many continents. Anyway my priority to travel abroad it's Latin America. I think our continent is full of treasures to know, and all of those treasures are hiding on people.
A project I have for a couple of years more is to travel hitchhiking to Peru or Bolivia. I would like to travel there because for me those cultures are integrally developed in topics like the respect for the earth and the respect for natives, not like Chile.
In Peru for example, the national monuments (mostly of them comes from the Inca culture) are reguard in a responsible way, the state protects them from graffitis and tourist, and in Bolivia the constitution is made of a way that the protection of the earth is consagrated. They have a big part of it's population that is native and they president Evo Morales is part of that population.
There I would like to walk a lot and talk to people to know more about their world view and problems, try their traditional foods and drinks, be immersed in their cultures.
But independently of the countries I would like to visit, I always would like to got back to Chile (that's what I think now) because I want to put on all the knowledges I'm getting on this career  and travels on making the chilean people live in better conditions.
Catalina