lunes, 19 de enero de 2015
Christmas, New Years's Eve and all that stuff.
Christmas and holidays, lucky me, have gone. I used to make a balance of the year when I was younger than I am nowadays. I started to cluster experiences and feelings and tried to make a sort of list where I put the positive and negative lived through these 365 days gone by. Now, I see that habit senseless . What's more, it's ridiculous the amount of people who swear quit smoking or doing sports and, after all these fake promises, they fell into the same trap, year after year. I'm tired of the supposed Christmas spirit. Spirit of consumism, of lights and false snow. Tired of the orgy of consumerism and wasted money. If only I could, I would travel to a paradisiacal island to swicth off my mind and recharge the batteries. Sometimes I look like the 'Grinch' with this dark Christmas spirit, but this is due to I don't feel comfortable with this holidays since I was a kid. I have decided to make the list with the new goals I want to fullfil every day and try to compel myself to make all the changes that everybody try to make the 1st of January, but all the year. Although I wish you had a nice time with your families, I don't like this holidays too much.
sábado, 13 de diciembre de 2014
The Structure of an Essay. H&M, or how shark defeats human rights.
We don't usually ask to ourselves where do our clothes come from, We just pick up the clothes we want to wear and that's all. Beyond this, we should be aware about what we buy, particularly when it comes from big industries. Most of the times, human rights are templed without any further. H&M, among other companies, has a dark trajectory behind it.
In 2014, three blogers joined on a trip to Camboya to work for a month for H&M, a swedish clothes brand manufacturing clothes.This is because they were taking part in a reality called 'Sweat Shop' . They had to live and work as they do it there, on equal conditions. One of the girls became surprised and desolated after seeing and experienced the cruelty of working like a slave. It is not an isolated matter, due to it is not the first time we hear about similiar news.
Anniken Jorgensen, one of the three blogers, brought to light the conditions of workers in Indonesia, as she was supossed not to say anything about what she saw. Workers are treated as they were little ants wich are not allowed to stop producing, while the queen live a fullfilled lofty life. Human rights dessapear between hours and hours of non-stop working. She reported this situation and nowadays, she still fighting to preserve dignity and worker's rights, at the age of 17.
We have become blind and deaf to this situation. When did we decide stop fighting, not only for our own rights but rights from unknown people? Why are we slept? If we take a quick look into our position, aparently, we don't have to fight too much for our rights because we live in a welfare state 'pretty good'. But, what if we had born in the wrong side of the world? What if we where the ones involved in that disgusting situation? We need to contribute rising our voices at the same time, to make a better and fair world, not only for us but for the rest of citizens.