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The Eurocentrist - overlooks or denies the existence of non-European democratic traditions;  - minimizes the West’s oppressive practices by construing them as mere accidents along the way to democracy;  - appropriates non-Europeans’ achievements without giving them acknowledgement

Unthinking Eurocentrism, Ella Shohat

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While modernity is undoubtedly a European occurrence, it also originates in a dialectical relation with non-Europe.

The Invention of the Americas, Enrique Dussel

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Perhaps if Europeans today were to acknowledge that Europe has always been dependent on non-Europe—has always been hybrid, never pure—then this would help Europe to escape from turning in the circle of its own exhaustion and to become reanimated by opening itself up to the other.

Europe and Eurocentrism, Allison Stone

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And if others do not recognize that someone is free—say, if they treat an individual as a slave— then that individual will be unaware of their capacity for freedom, for one’s recognition of this capacity in oneself depends on its being recognized by others.

Europe and Eurocentrism, Allison Stone

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Trabajo bruto pero con orgullo Aquí se comparte, lo mío es tuyo Este pueblo no se ahoga con marullos Y si se derrumba yo lo reconstruyo Tampoco pestañeo cuando te miro Para que recuerdes mi apellido La operación cóndor invadiendo mi nido Perdono pero nunca olvido, oye

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¡Ya estuvo!

De ahora en adelante, este blog será dedicado a la cultura artística Latinoamericana, desde México hasta Brasil. Para eso voy a incluir a mi queridiísima amiga Francesca. Juntas hemos decidido dedicarnos a conocer y profundizar en nuestros orígenes y a nuestro futuro. Al mismo tiempo buscamos darle  sentido, en nuestras cabezas, a nuestro presente, enredado y desconocido. Sin lugar a dudas somos entes finitos y físicos que habitan un espacio a la vez. Sin embargo, nuestra conciencia, nuestra cultura y sus artefactos son productos de muchas conciencias, muchos pueblos, muchos artefactos y muchas historias. Con esta verdad en mente estamos en busca del camino que nos lleve a descubrir una parte de lo que representa a nuestras culturas.

Este blog, y lo que se origine a partir de aquí, se lo dedicamos a nuestra tierra y a nuestra gente, con todo nuestro corazón.

La Paz, Bolivia

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Donald Trump has the power to reshape America so that it becomes more like the dysfunctional and declining place he claims it to be.

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Via Mitú facebook page artwork Debi Hasky

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Check this amazing page out. You can make money transfers mostly for free (free for transfers over £200, which is very little). No WesternUnion no more!! Living far away from my family, this is a great way to send help when it's needed!

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Growing up in a sunny place and then trying to make architecture in a country where sunlight is as valuable as air, is not an easy task. I keep forgetting that sunlight is so important! So I've come made myself a reminder 🔥🌞🌚���� #architecture #northerncountry #switzerland #sun #cold #arrow #orientation

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To build the tallest man made object in the world, the arabs had to import sand from Australia. "Why? If they are surrounded by desert!" Because the desert sand has no edges because of the erosion caused by the wind.

Find out more here: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPbdL1WVAcA&list=PLTYU4yo6sz3IHU6lglbCFQDCHfLiRmdeD

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Thanks for nothing, social media!

The Awkward Yeti

http://theawkwardyeti.com/nothing-social-media/

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"Man muss etwas tun, während dem wir auf den Tod warten."

Thomas Ott ist ein schweizer Künstler, der im Moment in Zürich arbeitet. Mich hat seine Art "Zeichnungen" fasziniert. Ich studiere Architektur und arbeite viel mit dem Cutter, aber normalerweise schneide ich Karton, Holz, Gips oder Klepstreifen damit. Er hingegen, zeichnet. Ich finde es faszinierend!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_clz5yMFY8

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Most of the streets in Zurich (and Europe) that had an amazing and elaborate paving made out of natural stones, which measured no more than 4x4cm. With the appearance of the automobile, modernization and the demand for less noise coming from the street, many of these streets were paved with a thin layer of tar. Water, sun and time are bringing pieces of the past back to life. #zurich #switzerland #timetravel #100happydays #stone #city

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The entire undertaking looks to results that can be fully realized only after many years, and [...] its value lies in its promises and experiments rather than its actualities.

Frederick Law Olmsted, "Vanderbilt's Nursery"

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An old man sitting in front of a public building in downtown Mexico City, earning his daily bread playing an old violin.

This man came with the little he had from Oaxaca a couple of years ago, looking for a job after his wife died. He sold the land he had to help his children, which now live in Nezahualcóyotl.They seem to be unable to help him. They are as poor and miserable as he is. He lives nearby and plays his violin for a couple of pesos a day. If the day is bright, he earns as much as up to 60 MXN (U$D 4.50), which is enough to get by, he said.

According to official statistics, 52.1 million (46.3%) of the Mexican population live in poverty, from which 12.8 million (11.4%) have to survive with U$D1.25 a day or less. Nuevo León has the lowest poverty rate with 21% (986.1 people, 9.1% in extreme poverty), followed by Mexico City with 28% (2'526 people, 2.2% e. p.).

Rural migration to the capital has decreased in the past 50 years. 24.6% of the inhabitants are rural immigrants (first generation), mostly from states from the center part of the country like Oaxaca, Puebla and Veracruz. Only 6% of the population in Mexico City are from other countries.

Sources:

CONEVAL, Informe de pobreza y evaluación en el Distrito Federal 2012, www.coneval.gob.mx

Negrete Solis, Maria Eugenia; La migración a la Ciudad de México: un proceso multifacético

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Public Steam Baths in Mexico City

Many years ago, the public baths in Mexico City were the meeting point on a Sunday morning. This tradition is getting lost; there are only 200 left from what were about more than 1500. Nowadays these are now mainly used by the gay community. 

In a city where the nearest water supply was a fountain a couple of blocks away, these public installations were a good, cheap and easy option to take a bath... every three months (reason why this was probably not a very lucrative business).

In 1850, an italian businessman named Sebastián Pane, introduced the ground perforation. By 1854, he was a rich man who had caved over 130 wells.

By 1872, a public bath opened its doors, named "Alberca Pane" (Panes Swimming pool) on the outskirts of the city (now Paseo de la Reforma, in front of the Monument to Cristobal Colón) with gardens, hydrotherapeutic baths, barbershop and a huge swimming pool, which water was taken from wells nearby. There was an orchestra, which played music for the customers while they swam, one could even take part in competitions to win a free entrance. And not to stop there, Pane himself offered a tram system pulled by mules, to take the customers "at hurricane speed" along the "bath circuit" (circuito de baños).

Inside the Alberca Pane, foto: donsusanito.blogspot.mx

Unfortunately, 1906 was the year the Pane Swimming pool was closed. President Francisco I. Madero built the public drainage in 1912 for the city. The public baths remained a popular place due to their "healing powers", and it was, to a certain point, known as a homosexual meeting point.

But the city keeps losing its signs and traditions to new ones...