English language Challenges

Studyng a diferent language represents always a big challenge. And that not only because a new language require a lot of time to learn it well, it is also very important to incorporate the  new grammathic structure of the language and manage it well. And that isn't a easy work to do for us as spanish speakers, because english  have a very diferent grammathical structure that forces to think the language in a completly new form. A example for that is the verb 'to be', that for a spanish speaker can have two diferent meaning, namely, 'ser' or 'estar' depending of the context of the sentence. But, at the other hand, english learning have a big advantage: English is nowadays the universal language of the whole world. This special condition of english makes it a little more easier to learn, because it is very easy to get in contact with the language throught tv series, movies, books, adverticements, etc. Fortunately, this special condition makes that at least a basic level of english 'floats in the air and can be catch by anyone'.

I think for me isn't very dificult english to speak and learn, maybe because I already know the german language that seems like english. Despite that, knwoing german has also a bad side: I tend to confuse some words or expresions of the two languages. 

The english lessons have been a successful experience for me because it give me a instans to write and think in english, that is always a good excercise to practice a language. I think that a method like this, that is focus in the use of the language and not only in memorize it, is better to learn it because the method makes sense to the student and not only force him to do some things in order to reach a sufficient level of english.     

My future job

I don't know what I will work at in the future, the only thing that I'm pretty sure is that I will not work as a tipical sociologist. I know that it sounds very naive, but I really expect that in the future I won't do the same work as a tipical sociologer of our country. The reason behind my determination is that I hate my career when it becomes a meaningless practice, like the sociologers that spend much of their workdays studyng irrelevant things like the toothpaste preferences of the old people or the sexual behavior of the women after eating a chocolate tablet. Thatsway for me is very important to find a workplace in where I can do something full of meaning for me, like for example work in a ONG that thinks about the way of making a society without pollution and poverty, or maybe work with people that are thinking to implement a new social model. All this options would be nice for me, but I know that it isn't easy to find such a job, thatsway it is importan to do things every time in order to reach a good job and not only sit down on a chair and wait to get it. Based in this conviction I started to write my ideas in a notebook, tryng allways to give them a clearly structure that could be understand by anyone. I'm convinced that only through this efforts I will get a job that will be in the line of my thoughts and beliefs and not only sell myself to the labour market.      

Discrimination

Discrimination isn't a isolated problem of some people, in fact it is one of the most important aspects of the human being. This is a very sad reality that every society and also every single person of the world should fight, but there is some obstacles that make it a difficult fight to win. The first difficulty come from the psychological structure of the human being. It is wellknown that one way to give yourself as a person more selfconfidence and esteem is to discriminate another person and make him fell bad. That also works to hide your own problems, because when you discriminate somebody you externalyse your own problems and weaknesses. At the other hand, in what social life refer, the discrimination works reforcing the social links of a human group by damaging another group that is consider from the principal group as an inferior one. One historic example is the german people against the jews in the second world war, period inwhich the nazis built their own identity in opposition of the jew identity.
Thatswhy discrimination is a difficult human problem to fix. A lot of scientist and thinkers believe that it isn't posible to change this situation because the tendency to discriminate is one of our deeplier instincts. Howerever, in my personal opinion, I believe that we aren't totally governed by our tendency, we can change this situation if we take more conscious control of our cultur enviroment. And that's because the human cultur is the most poweful weapon that we have created, it can transform our way of life like not other animal can do. Then, why wold be so imposible for the humang being to change a basic tendency, if our culture do that every time?   A cuestion that we all should think about.