Issues and Perspectives in LATAM

  I have several friends who don't believe in borders. They say that the world is for all: we should travel freely. In my case, I think is a good dream for travelers, and I also understand and take international borders, as a reality. Every country is like a house, and the people of that house say who enters and who doesn't. The thing for me is that this issue is more complicated than that. Maybe if it wasn't for artificial borders, discrimination still could exist. Borders are very complicated. As the author Nail (2015: p. 2) mentioned: "What remains problematic about border theory is that it is not strictly a territorial, political, juridical, or economic phenomenon but equally an aterritorial, apolitical, nonlegal, and noneconomic phenomenon at the same time ". Borders are not only the line that divides countries but also what is in between and more. The most complicated thing is what happens outside and inside the border. Nail continued, "a border seem...

 

In the audiovisual world, we have a phrase that says: "Reality surpasses fiction" and when you hear things people lived in wars, conquests, or colonies, it seems unbelievable but at the same time, you know that maybe it was worse than what we read. In the readings of this week, we read about ideologies of  'cleaning blood´ or ´making your race better´, since before the colonization of America, and how brutally it was practiced in the Americas. Racism is something that even today when we get all the information, we still live with the consequences and the new groups that appear that still think this way. In this video, in a short time, it shows some examples of what this means, not only in the days of colonization, but in the XXth century, and what is happening today. View this post on Instagram A post shared by DW Español (@dw_espanol) It's an issue that even though we are trying to make a better society, is still something complicated. Maybe le...