Sexual Orientations

• Types of sexual orientations
  

--> Heterossexuality

(attracted to people of the opposite sex (men-women / women-men) - Hetero = different)

--> Homosexuality

(attracted to people of the same sex (men-men/ woman-woman) - HOMO = SAME)

--> Bissexuality

(attracted to people of both sexes (men-men / men-women/ woman-men/ woman-woman) - BI = BOTH)

• Causes of sexual orientation

Results of biological and environmental factors. Many researchers consider that, in general, it is already defined in first years of life.

• Doubts

--> Homosexuality and bisexuality are the options?

No. No one chooses their sexual orientation. The orientation there is sexual without having direct control over it. By therefore not correct to refer to it as' sexual option'.

--> The homosexuality is a disease?

No. After many decades of studies, the left homosexuality disease to be considered by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) in 1973 and the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1993. Homosexuals are at the outset, as healthy people as heterosexual and the same opportunities and capabilities they.

--> You can change the sexual orientation of a person?

No. The people subjected to the so-called "therapies for conversion "does not cease to have homosexual feelings, still often have behavior homosexuals. The APA believes that this type of therapy does not have scientific bases. Studies show they may, by contrary, put at serious risk the welfare of emotional people subjected to them.

--> It is true that homosexuality is caused by a childhood trauma, or the absence of a parental figure of the same sex?

No. The majority of homosexuals never had a trauma in their childhood and homosexuals have structures and nature of family relationships as diverse as the heterosexual.

--> All homosexuals are promiscuous?

No. The homosexuals and bisexuals establish relations emotional with the same degree of durability and reliability that the heterosexual. The emotional investment in relationships is not associated with the individual's sexual orientation, whatever it may for, although the relations between persons of the same sex yet suffer large negative pressures due to existing prejudice.

--> It is true that most homosexuals are of HIV / AIDS?

No. The truth is that today most people infected with HIV are heterosexual. In any event, the presence of HIV is in no way related to sexual orientation, but with risk behavior.

--> The unstable people are bisexual, or undecided unable to be faithful?

The bisexuality does not mean an indecision as to which sex if you prefer, or that a person is more promiscuous or unstable and, much less, which seeks to bigamy in its relations love. Bisexual people have the same capabilities of fidelity and stability in a relationship that the people other sexual orientations.

--> A gay couple, a man and makes of another woman?

No. Such statements are based on relations heterosexual and social roles still apply. In relations both members of the gay couple share indiscriminately the roles associated with socially both sexes, both in the organization of domestic tasks as in any other field.

--> The parents may be gays?

There are, throughout the world, many thousands of children created, both by a father or a mother homosexuals, for a pair of two women or a couple of two men, and Portugal is no exception. These children come from marriages or relationships heterosexual or previous use of the adoption or artificial insemination, for example.

--> Homosexuals are good parents?

Yes, Several decades of studies show that children created by homosexual or gay couples have a social and emotional development perfectly normal life and is even more aware of not discriminate against other people.

• Types of dicrimination
  

--> Homophobia

It’s fear and contempt for homosexuals. This term is used to describe the hatred generalized to homosexuals.

--> Heterossexism

Means the ideological system that takes heterosexuality as superior, promoting the oppression, denial and discrimination of people of different sexual orientation to heterosexual.

Women discrimination

We are in the 21st century and still women are discriminated.

This discrimination is felt not only in social life, but also in the business world. Women are still regarded as the guardians of their home, the mother, in spite of the feminist movemant of the 30s and 40s of the 20th century. Women are still seen as an inferior being, specially in India and China, women are victims of sexual abuses,sexual exploiration, domestic violence and genital mutilation.

Brutal example of racial discrimination

One of the most brutal example of racial discrimination is racism. The Gennocide end Aphartheid took place in South Africa during the 20th century.

Black people were "denied" from their civil, politicial, economic, social and cultural rights.

Aboriginal Religion

Aboriginal Ceremony.

Aboriginal religion, like many other religions, is characterised by having a god or gods who created people and the surrounding environment during a particular creation period at the beginning of time. Aboriginal people are very religious and spiritual, but rather than praying to a single god they cannot see, each group generally believes in a number of different deities, whose image is often depicted in some tangible, recognisable form. This form may be that of a particular landscape feature, an image in a rock art shelter, or in a plant or animal form.

Wandjina bringer of the Wet Season rains to the people of the Kimberley.

Landscape features may be the embodiment of the deity itself, such as a particular rock representing a specific figure, or they may be the result of something the deity did or that happened to the deity in the Creation Period, such as a river having formed when the Rainbow Serpent passed through the area in the Creation Period, or a depression in a rock or in the ground representing the footprint or sitting place of an Ancestral Being.
Aboriginal people do not believe in animism. This is the belief that all natural objects possess a soul. They do not believe that a rock possesses a soul, but they might believe that a particular rock outcrop was created by a particular deity in the creation period, or that it represents a deity from the Creation Period. They believe that many animals and plants are interchangeable with human life through re-incarnation of the spirit or soul, and that this relates back to the Creation Period when these animals and plants were once people.

Aboriginal deities have many roles and no single description or term can describe all of these. Based on their primary role, they fall into three main categories, and any one deity may belong to one, two, or all three of these categories:


Creation Beings (also: Creation Figure). Many are involved with the creation of people, the landscape, and aspects of the environment, such as the creation of red, yellow or white pigments, so can be called “Creation Figures” or “Creation Beings”.
Ancestral Beings. In many examples, these deities are regarded as the direct ancestors of the people living today and so they are “Ancestral Figures”, “Ancestral Beings”, “Ancestral Heroes”, or “Dreamtime Ancestors”. Here, the one term “Ancestral Being” is used to describe these deities.
Ancestral Beings have taught the first people how to make tools and weapons, hunt animals and collect food, they have layed down the laws that govern their society, and the correct way to conduct ceremonies.
Even though regarded as ancestors of the people, such deities may not appear in a human form, but may be plant or animal, for example. In Aboriginal religious belief, a person’s spirit may return in human, animal or plant form after death. So an Ancestral Being may have the appearance of a plant or animal, but have done deeds similar to a human in the past.

Totemic Beings. / Totemic ancestors. A Totemic Being represents the original form of an animal, plant or other object (totem), as it was in the Creation Period. The concept of a Totemic Being overlaps with that of a Creation Being and an Ancestral Being because the Totemic Being may create the abundance of species, and people see themselves as being derived from the different Totemic Beings.

Native American's food habits

There were four basic ways for people in ancient societies to find food: hunting and fishing, gathering, farming, and raising domesticated animals. Native Americans did all these things, but the first three were much more common. There were not many domesticated animals in North America before Europeans arrived-- only turkeys, ducks, and dogs, and most tribes did not eat dogs (although some did.) In South America, llamas and guinea pigs were also raised by some tribes for their meat. The other three food sources were much more important to Native American life. Most tribes used two or three of these food-gathering techniques at once to get a varied diet. Every American Indian tribe that we know of took part in hunting and fishing to get fresh meat to eat. The Inuit and some Indian tribes of the far north relied almost entirely on hunting and fishing to survive. Some tribes were primarily big game hunters, migrating frequently to follow herds of bison or caribou. In these tribes, large groups of Native Americans usually worked together to drive these large animals into an ambush, a man-made pit, or over a cliff, sometimes setting controlled fires or building fences to cut off their escape. In other tribes, each Native American hunter would stalk deer, rabbits or other game, or set snares or traps for them. In fishing tribes, Native American fishermen would either catch fish or hunt marine mammals from their canoes, or else set fish nets and wooden traps for them. Hunting and fishing weapons varied from tribe to tribe but the most common ones were bows and arrows, spears, harpoons, fish-hooks, and blowguns.

Farming was another very important source of American Indian food materials. Agriculture was most advanced in what is now the southern United States, Mexico, and the Andean region of South America. Native Americans in those tribes used special farming techniques like irrigation, terracing, crop rotation, and planting windbreaks to improve their farms, and they usually harvested enough crops to dry and store for the winter. Besides food crops, Native American farmers often grew cotton, hemp, tobacco, and medicinal plants. Other tribes further to the north planted crops in garden plots in their villages but did not harvest enough to last the winter, so they would split up into hunting camps during that time instead.

Gathering is a general term for collecting food that grows wild in the environment. Sometimes this is a very basic sort of task, such as picking blueberries from a bush. Other times gathering can be complicated and requires special tools and training, such as tapping trees for maple syrup or grinding and leaching acorns into edible flour. The kinds of wild foods gathered by an Indian tribe and the tools they needed to do it with varied a lot depending on where the tribe lived.

Televison: A Way of Discrimination?

Lately, everybody watches tv. On tv we can see the news, intereseting (or not) programs.. What we don't see are presenters black or from other ethnics. If we are not a xenophobia society why most of the tv guys are white?

If you pay atention is very rare we see a black face on our tv... To be honest I don't remember the last time that I saw a black person presented the news or a program on tv.

Why doen't those people appeared on tv? They are like us , they have deffects and virtues. So why this discrimination happens?

According with the author of a study, the filmmaker Joel Zito Araújo, believes that no representation of black and other ethnic groups on television involves loss of self-esteem by the population, which does not fall within the "standards" of beauty. "The children of black or other ethnic group as you watch TV do not see anyone like the same yes. So, look in the mirror when it identifies itself as something not appreciated the aesthetic"explained the filmmaker.

I hope this discrimination doen't go on because we all should have the sames rights. This rights shoudn't be all theory (like they are) but practiced.

Journalists on RTP

Housing

Simple shelters covered with overlapping sheets of paperbark. Northern Territory.

With much of Australia having a mild climate, people often slept in the open, warmth and comfort provided by the campfire, and often people kept warm by sleeping between two small fires. The dingo, as a camp dog, also slept beside people providing warmth.
Aboriginal housing mostly consisted of simple shelters made from a framework of straight branches, then covered with leafy branches or sheets of bark.

Larger, more elaborate shelter made from frame of branches, covered with bark. Northern Territory.
The covering depended on locally available materials at the time. In some areas sheets of soft paperbark, easily pulled from trees, were available. In other areas stiffer sheets of thick stringy-bark were cut from trees, but if these were unavailable, then bushes and leafy branches were used.
In the tropical north, where a richer environment allowed people to camp in the one area for longer, more elaborate structures were built, sometimes elevated platforms with a fire below designed to make smoke and repel mosquitos.
One type of simple bark shelter consisted of bending or folding a length of bark and burying the ends into the ground to fix them.

Simple shelter made from bent over stringy-bark. Northern Territory.

In wet and cold conditions, closed dome-shaped shelters were made, commencing with a framework of sticks bent over and meeting in the centre. These were between one to two metres (three to six feet) high and this framework was covered with available materials – sheets of bark when available, but in desert regions, layers of spinifex grass, twigs and leaves.


All of the previously used information about aboriginal culture was extracted from:
http://www.aboriginalculture.com.au/index.shtml

ABORIGINAL ART

Naturalistic art style. Man spearing a kangaroo, Kimberley.

Religious and ceremonial aspects of life, being so important, are the inspiration for much art. Aboriginal art and decoration is an integral part of traditional life, and occurs as body decoration in ceremonies, on bark shelter and rock shelter walls, on trees (dendroglyphs), carved on rocks (petroglyphs), weapons, utensils, and sacred objected both natural and carved.

There is an enormous variety in the styles of Aboriginal art, with both regional variations and a time depth, where for each region the styles have varied as one goes back in time. For example, studies of Kimberley (north Western Australia) and Kakadu (in the Northern Territory) rock art show many evolving styles dating back tens of thousands of years.

Much of the painted and carved art can be divided simply into two broad categories or styles – naturalistic or figurative and non-naturalistic or non-figurative. However, Aboriginal art is much more complex than this and includes stencils, thread-cross strings on poles, free standing carvings and objects including beeswax models, charcoal drawings, drawings and designs in sand, the application of feathers and feather down, and so on.

The difference between these two styles is rather basic: a naturalistic style or figurative style means that any person looking at the art is able to recognize what basic subject is being depicted. It looks basically natural or is a figure of the intended subject.

Non-naturalistic or non-figurative styles include abstract styles and geometric patterns, the most common being those seen in the art of Central Australia. Here, for example, the arc shape might represent a man or woman sitting at their campfire, or it may represent a boomerang. A circle might represent any important person or place, or even represent the story of an important event that took place.

Aborigines’ Social Organisation

Australian Aboriginal culture varies throughout the continent and people from different regions have different Ancestral Beings, different tools, weapons, basketry and different art styles. Since the arrival of Macassan (Indonesian) on northern Australian shores after 1700 AD, and later European colonisation in 1788, Aboriginal culture has evolved and changed further.

People lived day to day in family groups, banded together as hordes, and meet at times of ceremony, when one to several hundred members of a single tribe come together. Members of different tribes meet together at the largest ceremonies and gatherings, when there might be over 1,000 people at one gathering.

Aborigines have complex social and marriage laws, based on the grouping of people within their society. They also have a complex kinship system where everyone is related to everyone else. In order to understand the complexities of their social organisation, it is best to consider it in the following way, dividing it first into three main aspects. First, the physical structuring of society in terms of numbers – family, horde, tribe, second, the religious structuring based on beliefs and customs, totems, and marriage laws, and these beliefs divide people into moieties, sections and subsections, totemic groups, and clans. Third, there is also a kinship system that gives a social structuring. The social structuring and kinship system can become very complex and difficult to understand for non-Aborigines, but is a natural part of life for Aborigines, and its details vary from tribe to tribe.

In other words, the physical structuring encompasses a total of 500 individuals grouped into parties of 10-20. These parties group up to go hunting.

The religious structure is very complex, and by trying to simplify it, many misunderstandings may occur. Nevertheless, it is a small risk worth taking.
Basically, their religion groups each singular individual to one of the two moieties, or Ancestral Beings, of Aboriginal culture. These Beings also consist of several plants, animals, or places, leaving many Aboriginals to be related to the both the moieties and their representations (read: Totem.)

The kinship system, or social structuring, is much more personal. Each individual is called one thing by another relating their social structuring. This is most evident when a non Aboriginal joins the tribe, being adopted into their society he is then named something like “father/mother” or “brother/sister” or any other familiar noun. This is because the Aboriginals need to have in their own mind the kinship relationship they have with the new member.

The kinship system allows individual naming for up to 70 relationship terms in some tribes. That is, far more than the European terms "father/mother", "grandfather/grandmother", "uncle/aunt" etc. It is also the system where brothers of one's father are also called, in one sense, "father", and cousins may be called "brother" or "sister". A person knows, of course, who their real mother and father are, but under kinship laws, they may have similar family obligations to their aunts and uncles, the same as they would to their mother and father, and this is reciprocated.

Religious Discrimination

In the world there are many religions, each with their belief and faith and each individual is free to have your own religion, belief, faith and opinion and expression on this. This is called freedom of religion. The freedom of religion also includes freedom to not follow any religion, or even did not think about the existence of God.

Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by all 58 member states of the United Nations on 10 December 1948 at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, France, defined the freedom of religion and opinion:

Every man has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change religion or belief and freedom to manifest religion or belief that by teaching, practice, worship and observance, individually or collectively, in public or in private.

Although the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined the freedom of religion and opinion, there is religious discrimination between individuals of some religions and individuals to others. Being considered religious discrimination such as racism.

This type of racism is practiced in African, This type of racism is practiced in most African religions, Indian, Orthodox, Jewish, Jehovah's Witnesses and spiritism religions.

Most cases of religious discrimination is given in the workplace and in schools.

The Homeless

Seen as a social problem, the homeless or beggars, are present in almost all countries as an indicator of maladjustment (cases of alcoholism, addictions, psychological disorders, etc.). Reflexes or economic conditions.

The homeless are people who simply have no fixed residence, living in public places in a city, so it is common to identify.

Most of the homeless has support of associations, such as CAIS, MIA, Citizen Portal of the homeless and Community Life and Peace, but not by the government, should pay more attention to the problems of these people.

The number of homeless has increased significantly, both in men as in women, elderly and young too. The main reasons for this increase are the cost of living and unemployment.

In Lisbon, Portugal, a study conducted by the municipal camera in 2004, shows that one third of the homeless are between 25 and 34 years, the majority are male (76%) and Portugal (64%) and not drugs (only 20% are drug addicts). However, use of drugs is a problem that is most associated with this. This study suggests that to know that there are at least 930 are homeless in the streets of Lisbon (the real number of people are homeless in the country is not known).

Of all the homeless immigrants in Lisbon, the vast majority is from Ukraine. Romania, Angola and Cape Verde have been below the list of countries of origin of the homeless on the streets of Lisbon, which also housed German, Brazil, Guinea, Moldovan and Russian - though in smaller numbers.

The people are homeless presents further characteristics:

• 89% is unemployed


• 28% have vocational training


• 92% have relatives living, but only 37% relates to them


• 39% do not have the family doctor


• 7% have HIV


• 28% Consumes active substances


• 43% have childrens
  

By being seen "by hand" by society, no one gives them work, and use these as the most common economic begging (27%), followed by support / institutional subsidies (22%), support of friends and relatives ( 13%). The income from Social Inclusion covers 10% of the homeless population.

A homeless, Kevin Barbieux, the United States, decided to use the Internet to talk about the experience as a resident of the street, and has even created a blog for this. Only in this way and through associations is that we, "not the homeless," we can know and understand, though evil, because only the skin feel what they are is that they would because the value, life and day to day of homelessness.

The Nazism

The Nazism was a political system (based on Italian fascism of Mussolini but led to a more extreme degree) ruled by Adolf Hitler in Germany, from 1933 to 1945. Besides the characteristics fascist (totalitarianism, nationalism, militarism, imperialism, the personality cult and the violent repression), also called the Nazi anti-Semitism and racism.

The theory defended by Nazism, and even for some advocates, that the Aryan race was a race superior to all others, which led to the massacre of many thousands of Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, Gypsies, Slavs and even homosexuals, because they were considered, among others, "parasitic races", "racial enemies", "animals", "wild".

Today, the term Nazi is used to describe all groups of people with racist and nationalist ideals violent and trying to impose unpopular or extremist solutions to the general population, or who commit crimes and other violations on others without showing remorse, such as neonazis movements, existing in several countries. The often associated with neo-Nazis and skinhead youth subculture, although not all members of this culture are connected to Nazi ideology.

Although we know that there are people of all colors: white, yellow, black ... there is only one race, the human race, and that we are all different and yet all the same, even today, sometimes even in schools, people with different religions or races are discriminated, bad treaty and rejected.

A well known case is that of Israel, common and highly controversial subject of "Nazi" when applied to the way that Jews deal with the Palestinians and its racial policies.

Discrimination of women

Although men and women have equal rights, society treats them as different.

Previously the role of women was restricted to the maintenance of the home and caring for the children. Only men could participate in politics and other public activities.

Over time women began to play a slightly different, in time of revolution, manifesting itself mainly to the right of voting and the rights won by the revolution should be for both sexes; At the time of the Industrial Revolution, or is in the nineteenth century, the number of women employed increased significantly, although still not reduce the wage difference between sexes, which had to justify the assumption that women who have to maintain.

Only in 1893 it was granted for the first time in New Zealand, the right to vote to women. In 1918, Germany and the UK allow the female vote, while only come to France, Italy and Japan in 1945. In the decades of 1930 and 1940, these claims were formally acquired in most Western countries (the right to vote, education and access to the labor market). Thanks to two major wars that involved most of the men, taking the jobs left vacant, women were increasingly able to work. At the end of both wars, there were campaigns that devalued the female work, showing that the advances made were still restricted to the legislative.

Already in the 1960s, the movement, influenced by such publications as The Second Sex (1949) of Simone de Beauvoir, is the view that the hierarchy between the sexes is not a biological inevitability, but a social construction. Beyond the fight for equal rights, embodies the question of cultural roots of inequality.

Even today, even after so much struggle over the centuries by the affirmation of women in society and, in 1945, equal rights between men and women have been recognized in international document by the Charter of the United Nations, women continue to be down (as much as in developed countries as in developing countries) in several aspects, such as at work - where men continue to be paid more than women - pregnant women at the party, in family life in which some women are forced to be at home to take care of the family and make the deals of the house, old-fashioned, being controlled by men, sometimes even suffering from domestic violence.

It made all these economic, political and social and achieved by women, while for others not, on 8 March every year is celebrated International Women's Day to make a tribute to 129 women’s that died in a factory burned fighting for better conditions of work. Annually on 25 November, it is the International Day to Combat Violence against Women, having been proclaimed by the United Nations (UN) in 1999 as a way to alert and report that even today, still is practiced violence against women, that the data from the public, puts humanity to one of the most dramatic failure of the most basic human rights.

Prejudice

What's prejudice?

Prejudice it's an opinion formed beforehand, without further consideration or knowledge of the facts, without trial trained taking into account that the facts contest, suspicion, irrational hatred, aversion.

In our days, prejudice is a very common thought. There are very tipes os prejudice, for example:

1. Racial Prejudice
2. Prejudice as to social class
3. Prejudice about sexual orientation
4. Prejudice as to nacionality
5. Prejudice against disabled people
6. Prejudice between religions
   

This tipes os prejudice are the most commons. Here, I put an example of prejudice against man.

Who sais that pink is colour of woman?

Who sais blue is colour of man?

In our society a man who dressed pink is considered less man. Why? Is not a colour like all others? If it is why some people joke with that?

Some people should learn:

A woman dressed in blue doesn't become less woman.
A man dressed in pink doesn't become less man.

Prejudice against Immigrants

In our days is very common hear about immigration. Immigration in general is made by personal initiative, the search for better living and working from those who migrate, or to escape from persecution or discrimination for religious or political. Was the main reason of migration occurred in Europe and Asia to the Americas in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.

This process can also be encouraged by governments of countries that want to increase the size and / or the qualifications of its population, but also are, for example, Canada and Australia since the twentieth century.

However, today immigrants are considerated, by some people, a problem. This happens because some people do not accepted the differences between them. This is denominated by xenophobia (my colleague allready talk about this problem on another post).

What that people don't understand it's that immigration has some advantages for the country of arrival. They should learn to accepted de differences, just because one person isn't like us, it doen't means that is a bad person; sometimes, is better than ourselfs.

Dear Mr. President

Dear Mr. President,Come take a walk with me. (Take a walk with me)

Let's pretend we're just two people and

You're not better than me.

I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly.

What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street?

Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep?

What do you feel when you look in the mirror?Are you proud?

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?

How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?

How do you walk with your head held high?

Can you even look me in the eyeAnd tell me why?

Dear Mr. President,Were you a lonely boy? (Were you a lonely boy)

Are you a lonely boy? (Are you a lonely boy?)

How can you say

No child is left behind?

We're not dumb and we're not blind.

They're all sitting in your cells

While you pave the road to hell.

What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away?

And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay?

I can only imagine what the first lady has to say

You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine.

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?

How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?

How do you walk with your head held high?

Can you even look me in the eye?

Let me tell you 'bout hard work

Minimum wage with a baby on the way

Let me tell you 'bout hard work

Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away

Let me tell you 'bout hard work

Building a bed out of a cardboard box

Let me tell you 'bout hard work

Hard work

Hard work

You don't know nothing 'bout hard work

Hard workHard work

Oh(How do you sleep at night?)

(How do you walk with your head held high?)

Dear Mr. President,You'd never take a walk with me.

Would you?

Racism

It's understood that racial discrimination is any distinction exclusion in terms of race, colour, etnic or national origin, which restrains, freedom, equal, social, economic rights.

One of the basics of human lights is the principle that all human beings are born freely and equal in dignity and rights. Therefore any act of discrimination because of the race or etnic rigin stands a violation og this principle.

Child Exploitation (Case on Brazil)

In our world (mainly on poor countries) there are a serious problem: child exploitation.

In this post I will show you a specific case on Brazil.

"It is forbiden any work for minors fourteen years of age, except on condition apprentice": that is what tells the Status of Children and Adolescents. However, in Brazil, as in most of the world, there is child exploitation. Thousands of children and adolescents work and a lot.

Why do children work? There are adults who support saying that child labor is a disciplinary practice, prepares for life, is a way to avoid idleness. Indeed, the main reason why children work is the poverty of their families.

This is a serious problem because if children work, he/she can't frequent school or made activities adequated of his/her age which afecct their formation.

Most working children live in rural areas. Working conditions in the field are very difficult and harmful to health. Only children sometimes receive payment and even then, very little, in general, child labor is considered aid and is not paid.

A scholar of the matter stated that "it is difficult to find in Brazil a commodity that has not the mark of the hand of a child" (Carlos Alexim, the International Labor Organization).

In several regions of the country, are therefore, child labor, activities in arduous, dangerous, unprotected, with no labor rights, without payment or very poorly paid - and no school. More than half of children and young people who work trying to reconcile work and study. This reconciliation is difficult, with many comings and goings. Often young people end up abandoning their studies.

Childrens working

Xenophobia is...

• Xenophobia is a word a Greek origin meaning aversion againststrange objects or people.
• Xenophobia is a fear, a phobia or an excessive, uncontrolled aversion towards people, races, cultures or objects we don’t usually know. It is a preconception which is related with the feeling of hatred against foreign people or ethnic groups.
• This term is also used to name any prejudice related to sexual options or even psychiactric illness.

Rich Countries Versus Poor Countries

Small definition of Wealth:

-->Wealth is the situation on the abundance in the possession of money and property.

-->Rich is the person who accumulated substantial wealth for the society in which he lives.

Some images of wealth

Inside a limo

However, in our world doesn't exist only a good side. Now I will show you the part of the Earth that some insisn on ignoring.

Smal definition of Poverty:

-->Poverty can be understood in several ways, mainly:

-->Material shortage, typically involving the needs of daily life such as food, clothing, housing and health care. Poverty in this sense can be understood as the lack of essential goods, services and economic resources, including lack of wealth.

Some images of poverty:

Childrens weak
Poor child

Our world is so unfair for some people who suffer with war, hungry and more things that we never imagine. What's worst is that the innocents are the most suffering and those who have less guilt.
This is a map that show us which countries where there is more hunger (red is extremely alarming and green is low to moderate hunger; white are the countries exclude from study and blue are countries with no values).

Melhor Mensagem 2007

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Melhor Mensagem 2007

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This presentation show us the differneces between a poor anda a rich country. It's a complement for my post "Rich countries versus Poor cuntries".