Music to my ears

Music is quiet important to me. I grow up listening and singing songs with my big sister and I remember that we used to act like if we were huge rock stars. I liked to play a little xylophone and my father taught me to play the guitar, unfortunately I forgot it very quickly.

I would define my music taste very peaceful but, in general, I like a lot of different kinds of music.  I like jazz a lot and one of my favorite singers is Nina Simone, she was very gifted and I admire her personality, or at least what I read about her.

However I feel that all the stuff related about music are very expensive I have to admit that I had spent a lot of money in concerts and CDs. The concerts are my guilty pleasure! I like to search the resale tickets. I would do anything to go to a concert of a group or a singer that I like.

If I were a song, I would like to be the Nina Simone’s song “Feeling Good” is a classic and I like that much that I named my blog after it.

I don’t have a lot of musical skills, I don’t play anything and I suck at singing. However I like to go to karaoke with my friends. You don’t need to sing very well if you just want to spend a great time!

So, in conclusion, I think that the world without music would be really boring.

My favourite piece of technology

If there's something you should now about me it's that I'm not very updated with the technology. In fact I don't even have a cellphone, I use one that is borrowed when I’m out of my house, but it doesn't have whatsapp or something like that.

So, think about my favorite piece of technology was very difficult, however I think that my digital camera is one of the things that I love the most and for me at least is very technological.

I got my Canon camera the last year and I had to save a lot of money for getting it. Is very sad, but now this camera is very cheap and I’m already thinking to get another one more professional. I use my camera very often but when I use it the most is at the familiar’s reunions. I have so many pictures with my family but I never print them, the photos are just in my computer. I really like taking pictures but I think that more important yet is enjoy the present so if some day I don’t have my camera ever again I wouldn’t die. 

Pierre Bourdieu

Hi! as you know I'm studying sociology at the Universidad de Chile, and this year I discovered some experts that I didn't studied until know. So today I would like to talk about one in particular that I find very important.

Lately, I have been studying a very interesting sociologist and anthropologist, Pierre Bourdieu. Bourdieu was born in 1930 in France and died in 2002, just 12 years ago so he is very contemporaneous. He is recognized for his critical vision of the society. That's why I would like to talk about him. I I think that is one of the people that most contributed to the sociology in the last years. 

His studies were based in the reproduction of the social's hierarchy and one of his most famous works is the book called "Distinction: A social critique  of the judgment of taste" were he developed a theory about the social stratification based and how the dominant class stand out by the aesthetic taste.

He also defined terminologies like social capital, cultural capital, field and habitus. This concepts are now very helpful to the sociology because are used in different subfields of the sociology, like the education, politic, economy and art.  

So, as you can see, Bourdieu is very important for the sociology and I thought you should know a little about him. If you liked this little description of him you should read more of his work, I recommend "The reproduction" you will find it very interesting!

Today, I will talk about a very sad part of the history: the World War II. I have read a lot about the World War II, but I've watched more movies. Some of them are very romantic where many couples are divided because of the war for example, but others are very hard and show how cruel was the holocaust. I think that the most shocking aspect of this war was the amount of people that was murdered and how they were murdered. Just the fact of killing another human I found despicable but in this war was killed a big number of children too, so the least thing I think about this war is that it was totally heartless.

I think that no war is justified in any circumstance, the violence is not an option for me and for that reason I would never be willing to go to a war and put my life in risk and hurt other people.

I don’t know if the World War III will ever take place, but I just hope that the humanity have learned something and stop thinking that the violence is the way to put their interest above the others, because firstly they shouldn’t put their interest above the others.