NEXT SPANISH STEP (week 6)

A while after the so called “white” arrival, we know that the South America that used to be a couple of years back were now totally changed and different. We also know that that the native-Colombians were somehow discriminated, because under Spanish criteria, this new race were “less than humans” or better said “less than Spaniard people” and so they were forced to work like slaves like the 90% of a day. But also the sickness that the new oppressors brought were really damaging to the Natives because before they came, America was really a clean, continent without all the dirtiness the Europeans had. And so like they were not get used lots of them died.

As if this wasn’t enough the Europeans decided to put a new law which purpose was to establish and control even better the natives, and this law said “ El pueblo debia tener Una iglesia,plaza y calles bajo la administracion de un cacique y su población nodebia superar los 300 vecinos”. And so these poor natives had to change their lives from living in their own wide spaces with their own home, families and food free to do wht they want, to becoming slaves of a land invaders which had no rights whatsoever, to tell them how any people they could have and what religions to follow. Also the languages the natives spoke were prohibited by the Land lords. But still a few of this were secretly talked. But many died because of it.

The Natives were not slaves of the Spanish but they treated them like if they were, because all the excessive hard work, the way of living and the lack of payment was a signal of the worst, Also because the massive take out of Colombian soil for money was only for Spain and not one bit of gold for the ones who at the first place own it.
As the Natives were in such a bad shape, the Spanish people were lacking out of employees ( the Spanish true blood didn’t had to work) and so the “cachacos” and “criollos” replaced the workers for the Spanish factories of Gold and Jewls could be established once again.

Of all this we several years later can only wonder if this case of non official slavery and the constant injustices of the Spaniard would ever lead to something good? These injustices made the liberation of Colombia many years later possible.

SPAIN AND THE AMERICA CHANGE OF CULTURE
(WEEK 5A)
After a few years of the European arrival America had changed, from being a total different thing of what was Spain to becoming one pretty much the same. The difference was that the inhabitants of South America were a mix betweeen “ cachacos” “criollos” negros” “blancos” because of this, the jerarqy was starting to born as the whites were the riches and the owners of the lands, the black people werent allowed to have a house of their own, so they were the most pooor class. The Cahacos, and Criollos were of halve, meaning not poor but not rich either. The Natives or indians werent able to go to any parties o events of the rich or middle people but neither were as discriminated as the black people.The Spanish had right to maximum 10 blacks and five indians as slaves. So slowly but surely America was becoming a new Spain but with the people more despearte to fir in. Thats why so many prostitutes where now working in the streets, and so a lot of people started to cheat to their wifes and the familiar problems started. Things that didnt happened before because one indian had the right of having seven female accompanions.
As the new era begun, the changes were drastic, because all the territories of the Natives were destroyed to make houses for the kings, the cities were finally called names, as the first cities were Santafe De Bogota, Cartagena and Santa Marta. As the people tried to settle down on the diferent parts of Colombia, The materials were also distribuited depending on the class of the people. The “Divine Crown” had the right to the best materials for making a home as well as the best floors even the glasses. As for the middle level were happy to choose between zinc or icopor The natives had to build his houses with wood and the Black had n o right to any elements.
The food that was on the first place from america, was sent to Europe and less than the half was sent back to america to be distribuited, and once again the discrimination was shown. The good food was of course for the White europeans, The one that was a little bit raw was for the middñe, and the one who was Rotten was for the natives and black.
So these discrimination was really desperate and america was really in a very bad moment. Something needed to change.

THE EUROPEANS AND THE NEW AMERICA
(WEEK 4A)



When the Europeans (Spaniards) came to South America they didn’t only take the gold as everybody thinks but a lot of other things:


THE FOOD

The Native Americans had a system of cultivating food such as coffee which The Spanish never had seen or done before, It surprised them a lot. This new food (also the fruits) where a phenomenal market for the newly arrived because back in Spain this product sold really well. So they started to massively take these elements and duplicate the sells. But as the Cultivation had to be done on certain seasons and not all the time in the year, the Arrived wanted all the time the plants to be farmed and so the product was damaged and finally died. As that business was over then the fruit was also taken with excess. The trees with the fruits were doubled and every single of any fruit was seeded. Once again the ambition of the Europeans made damage to Americans.



LANGUAGE

As the invaders came with the Spanish as Language they couldn’t understand what the Natives were saying especially because in all they conquered were about 3000 different languages. So they decided to put a new rule which dictated “as we are the conquerors of this place and emperors of the world we shall put our language as the only and principal of this lands, anybody who dares to cuestionate the punish will be dead by hanging” . (Translated to English, Colombia imagenes de su diversidad, pg 56) So when the “new dictators” conquered a village they taught to the natives how to speak it and so they could go to the next village to warn them about the Spanish coming, and that if they didn’t learn the Spanish their destiny would be worst. By this method the invasions were easier and that’s why many languages in our country were lost and our homeland language is Spanish.



RELIGION

The Indians believed in a source of gods which implied their ancestors and that they would guide them to make the right Decisions through life. Now the newly arrived Believed mainly in the religion Catholic and Christian. In every village they conquered they installed a church in which summited the Indians to bow a different God they were used to.


HUMAN RIGHTS

The massive Conquering of South America, made a huge change in the New World. From every aspect of the live, so all this massacres, wars did it take any meaning or we were better before the Europeans arrived?

SOCIALS WORK (3A)

AMERICAN CULTURES BEFORE EUROPEANS



All the cultures in America before the Europeans came were sacred, everything had its purpose, it was a very organized constitution in which people didn’t lived to get rich, but to serve some main purposes that determined a live.
The bosses or the leaders were called “caciques” and were the ones that controlled the wealth of each tribe. In ancient America it was habit that in order to show honor and respect to their leader the people made him different types of tributes:
For example there was the party tribute which was an obligation to the people work in what the “cacique “ wanted in party season ( mainly were religious acts). Also were tributes for crops, military services and Wanderings.

When the Europeans came they where only interested in gold, silver, money and jewels, which make it totally different from the Natives in which converted the gold and other precious stones into sculptures of the world around them. The luxury stones were found in rivers and lakes which provided the Indians a lot of it and without any ambition slowly and cautiously the Americans took out only the necessary. On the other side the Spaniards massively took out all the gold in the mines and the work that Indians made were made into golden bars for a better market sale. The Indians let this figures be taken away because at the beginning they thought Europeans where monsters, because for them the objects such as swords and mirrors where unknown, but the obsession with money and power, made native realize the ones invading were human.

Now I wonder, who is smarter the Europeans that took all the fancy jewels and gold they could, or the Americans that in an organized way lived in a better civilization?

COLOMBIAN HISTORY
WEEK 2A
COLOMBIAN TERRITORIES, WHAT BELONGS TO US

The map and geography of a country is not only about showing what piece of land belongs to you, is much more than that. It shows how that the territory occupied belongs to a nation which is glad to have it, and it is like the house, is unique special you would do anything to keep it safe. But in the case of Colombia this image of a nice state, has been erased in time.

Since the time the Spaniards came we haven’t shown really the true valor’s that make us defend with dignity our country (I don’t mean in the military way) because by brides and cheap negotiations our country is now more small than it used to be, it had more land and space but as times passed, from the day that our liberator Simon Bolivar freed us from the Spanish embassy we have done nothing but fight between us and try to negotiate the piece of lands like if it was a domino board. Or that is what I felt the author was trying to transmit in all those angry pages.
For the things to work for the Colombian people to stop the desperation we shall know how beautiful this country is and the little piece of land remained on the map we shall take care of it.

introduction to socials blog (week 1)

Most of the blogs try to give a short piece of information about something saying only a unique point of view (personal) without exploring different opinions from different angles about a specific thing. My blog will be different; it will have the information needed from the subject, without taking sides. I won’t say rather this is good or bad, I will check out all the sides of the history and in base on that I will give my statement.

I hope is good and I will try my best.