viernes, 4 de abril de 2008

A brief reflection


When I arrived here I started to see things from my own site. Behaviour of habitants are very close described for my landlord: "a behaviour of self-sufficiency". Arrogance, like somepeople would briefly describe.
I reflected after have read an article, why "arrogance" like a particularity of behaviour here...
On century 16th undiscovered places were a jewel to men for the easy way to appropriating them and settle a civilization already developed at the other side of the ocean. What a great advantage, comparable maybe with some ways to earn a living nowadays; some cases are result of a good fortune, a very privileged position maybe, and certainly by capabilities. The very good conditions and speed of this process or "easy way" could make people at some point attribute all that ingredients to build the egos, behaving arrogantly with a big proud, and then identity for all that "ingredients".

We Mexicans, have such kind of peculiarity: we are made for two inheritanced models of thinking and being...historically speaking the first are a culture wich never has had received any external influence; and the other, came suddenly, a big culture that appropriated this place and allowed the mixture of races. First one are already in a good percent in our blood. Such situation make an eternal conflict: we are designed in body and soul to live in a mode that no loger exists; and the mode that was adopted suddenly never has been understood at one hundred percent. Three weeks ago I went to the Museum of Fine Arts where I saw a paint of century 18th: was a naked(is "naked" the technical name of those kind of paintings?) and were called "The latin american women". I´ll get naked but I don´t care: I felt very identified with her corporal forms that where more indigenous than european(just for naming two defined models). For this sudden fact today I feel myself more included in that side: the interrupted culture.
I think Mexicans have a very important work to do.

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