Why young people don´t interesed in politic in Chile?

Well, talk about politic is not very simple: nowadays we can see politicals campaigns in the streets in all the cities of Chile. The reason? the presidential elections will be in November 17 and joined with that decision chilean people should vote for senators, members of parliament and for firts time we can vote for regional advisers!!

Ok, that is the fact but in the reality young people don´t have interest to vote in every government election because the politics parties of left and right finally are not representative of the ordinary people. Young people think in how year to year politics take advantage of their positions for increase their properties so left politics and right politics take decisions that only benefit big bussines and the transnational bussines that gather the majority winnings of the country. That is very serious problem because the State don´t take control about it and the social inequality continue exist and is far away to end.

The problem to go vote is with the present politic class: the Oficialism continue defending Pinochet and how this year conmemorated 40 years from the Military coup all the facts that happened in this period can´t forget and con´t  forgive the tortures (Right supported the dictatorship) and today young people try to keep the memmory from in the future never more allow this type of human violations.

The Concertación have lost credibility in the last government because they were pronunced in agree with neoliberal politics against the village people interestes, for example they continue promoted the market education and they continue favoring the rich people bacause the taxes are paid for the middle class and the low class.


The faces are always the same, young people don´t exist in the formal representation. We need young leaders that finished with this situation!

Blog post 6: Living in poverty exerts a high cognitive toll on families

This notice talk about how the poverty exerts a high cognitive toll on families because children are  mentally and emotionally depleted by living on scant resources.

Andrew is a little boy that with his "singing shoes" and he´s one of Britain's 1.6 million children living in severe poverty. Chronic poverty causes health difficulties, educational failure, mental health challenges, and impoverished aspirations because the overexposure to stress has negative consequences on physical and emotional development.

About the consequences, there is a theory of causation that  concerns a kind of cognitive depletion, a sort of cognitive tax on the poor people. The constant preoccupation with the difficulty generated as a result of not having appropriate resources narrows down thinking, focusing attention on the concern at hand. This intense and concentrated use of energy reduces a person's mental bandwidth, preventing them from managing effectively other areas of their lives, because worry is consuming them.

Some scientists believe Andrew's preoccupation with lack of appropriate clothing could be potentially comparable to losing a night's sleep, or the difference between the performance capacities of an alcoholic versus a normal adult.

People who are relentlessly living in distressing circumstances, this cognitive overload is likely to lead to exhaustion and a sort of despair which can manifest itself in poor self-control. At some point, Andrew may get fed up enough to finally steal a new pair of shoes.

As a summary, a toxic combination of lack of safety and chronic poverty is depleting people (young people). They are too tired to be good, to make an extra effort, to try harder. It is at this point that they are prepared to discard everything.

Governments are preoccupied with lowering taxes for the rich, while emotionally over-taxing the poor. It will cost.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/30/poverty-high-cognitive-toll-children

My school friends

Hello! This week I´m going to talk about my group of friends that I have since I studied at Liceo in Punta Arenas. Well, the first thing that I can say is the frienship with they are live nowadays althought we lived in different cities because when we left secundary and enter to university some careers and the educational quality in Punta Arenas is not present than in another regions in the country.

So, my group of friends physically was separate: Carol studies in Punta Arenas, Andrés studies in Concepción, Karen studies in Valdivia, Claudia, Angie and Victor study in Valparaíso and Giordano and me study her in Santiago.

The most important thing about us is that every year or every holiday we ocasionally some of us go to Punta Arenas we joined to go out, talk of our careers and share remember the secundary times (I believe that the friendship with they is very important to my life). We try to meet in some week when we have celebrated days, for example: the last year we joined in the national party time in Valparaíso for two days and celebrated the 18! It was so fun :)

Also, someone of they visit Santiago for the day because my friends that study in Valparaiso are very near and I see they or sometines for study reasons I go to Valparaiso and meet with Angie and Claudia.

To Finally, I am very happy to have a group of friends as they because the distance is not an impediment to comunicate us and tell about our lifes. I love they!

I hope that this friendship never ends :)

University works: be a packing

Throughout university life many students work because they need money to live or they pay their careers. University people ( including me)usually work as  promoters, bartenders, sellers, cashiers, part-time workers, packaging, etc.

Today I`m going to particularly talk about the work that I do as packing in a supermarket along the year and how I mix my work with the psychology studies.

What means to be one university packing? To be a packing is a good job, especially  because this allow that  you  can juggle your time to study and the yourself  time that you have every week, and week to week you can select your work time according to your availability.  

About the winnings, in the supermarket where I work  in turns from 3.5 hours and the average is about 12 thousand pesos.

The downside of be a packing  is that sometimes we have to endure that customers don`t treat as in the right way or don`t value the work that we do and  don`t give  gratuity or people give us minimal coin (10 pesos for example), also the are some restrictions that every supermarket imposed  for system regulation.

Anyway, in my experience I recommend this work for any university student that  you want to work.