Can There Be World Citizenship?

The author’s propose could be a utopia if it was presented 100 years ago. However, our world has changed to a direction that all its citizens are closer together. As it was discussed in the writing response about the different generations, I tried to show the proximity of people from different countries through the advancement of technology. Inventions such as internet and airplanes put us together as we have never been before. Because of those facts the mankind, on my opinion, is on the path to a kind of worldwide citizenship. The creation of the United Nations also can play an important role in this unification of people, as the author mentioned if we learned about the United Nations since elementary school and the position that each country has in the committee, would make our people aware of our union since very early.
Probably war is the biggest enemy of world’s union. It puts people away from each other, raises differences and hate among citizens. Humans have a hard time dealing with differences. Some of us do not accept for example religions or cultural differences, which can lead to conflicts between interests or merely because of this human difference that make all of our diversity. I am sure that when the proximity between people of different countries increases, everybody will have more opportunity to know each other better and the quantity of wars will consequently decrease; then we will be able to get our world citizenship.

Built by X -Generation Me and The Why-Worry Generation

Generation X worked hard; fought for their accomplishments. This generation faced the uncertainty of the coming future pos Second Great War. Their future was a mystery more than it is for the generation Y’s future. The cold war was always side by side with their lives; the dangerous of an atomic war to explode in American territory per example was imminent in their minds. Maybe all this stress made the Generation X more “man”, strong to grow in a suffered society. However, generation’s readings of this week, written by generation X members, tries to evidence how spoil generation Y is. I complete agree with many of the points presented by them, which described the spoiled kids, teenagers, and adults of the generation Y. Though, remember that we are a generation raised by the X’s. In addition I say that Generation Y has a much higher familiarity with communication, media and digital technologies than all the other generations have ever had. The proximity produced by airplanes, internet and cell phones has put this generation together as was never seen in the history of the mankind. A friend in Alaska can receive an email from you just right after you click on send; you can fly from Los Angeles to New York in less than an afternoon. More creations of generation X. The baby boomers gave us the easiness to acquire knowledge from the internet, where you can find explanations, biographies or any material for research much faster and practicable than any other book. The libraries used once by generation X can soon become obsolete. And that’s not a bad thing. I do not know if my generation will succeed, but I know we were raised by the ones that call us spoiled, made us like that. Even though we are spoiled, the possibilities to expand our intelligence in exponential levels are right in front of the screen of this laptop, created also by generation X. They can say anything about the Y’s but they were the ones that made us as we are.

The Ways We Lie

White lie
“I will repeat one more time: I didn’t kiss her
Façade
Wearing a Giorgio Armani T-shirt in a Hollywood club but having to get up early in the day after to go your Mac Donald’s job
Ignoring the Plain Facts
“My dog is happy even though it lives in a 160 square inches cage”
Deflecting
“He appeared from nowhere in front of me” – A drunk driver lying after running over a person on the side walk
Omission
A police seeing a co worker committing a crime and not reporting it to his superiors”
Stereotypes and Clichés
“She is Japanese; she will solve that equation easily”
Groupthink
A fraternity member lies to a court about a crime that one of his brothers committed
Out-and-Out Lies
A football coach asks his player why he came late to the practice; however, the coach saw the player in a bar at 4am of that morning.
Dismissal
“The professor is wrong, I am right”
Delusion
“I killed her because I have mental problems”

Big Rant - Today's Music

People rant about and because many things. Any fact that confronts with your expectations or beliefs can lead you to intense anger followed by complaints and more complaints. Factors such as the price of gas, president policies, weather, babies crying, too much homework and all the innumerous examples that I could give can make a person explode in complaints.
Rant is totally acceptable; you have the right of complaining in most of the situations that drive you crazy, and it can also be very constructive for example complaints that increase the quality of a product or service. However ranting does not look good all the time. It is not nice in the society point view some cases of complaint. For example, a person complaining in a violent way or some people making their complaint a scandalous could look ugly.
As a human being, I also would like to leave my rant. Music in these days is crap. Justin Bieber? Snoopy Dog? In my opinion, we are going backwards in our musical evolution. After having the compositions of Beethoven, Bach and Mozart, or enjoying the poetry of Jim Morrison and the Jimi Hendrix guitar solos now we are obligated to content ourselves with Brittany Spears and Lil Wayne. Our new musicians do not aggregate any specie of benefit to our society and in addition, they get rich because of us in exchange of a low level of pop culture that they throw in our heads. I agree that music’s finality usually is to make us dance, and some of today’s music really get us shaking. However, the quantity of terrible songs made by brainless musicians out there is huge and I just want to complain about it, people agreeing with me or not.

Small Rant - Soccer

Don’t ever disagree with me when the subject is my soccer team. As a good fan I root and defend my team until death. I watch every single game that they play; if I am away from a television I still find time to at least listen it on the radio. I read all the news on their webpage, every single day. What I want to say is that I really love my team. However, all my fellows do not run for the same team that I do, actually most of them run for our biggest rival. My team has won many more championships, beaten them many more times than they have beaten us and so on. All the enough reasons to make me the winner in any debate about which team is better are in my side. However, they also love their team, just as I love mine. That’s when the rant starts. They argue their team is better because they have more fans, or because they have more games transmitted on sports channels. Whatever! That does not say that your team is better; I rather have half of their number of fans but beat them in every game just as we already do, than having numerous fans. Who cares? They apparently do, and blindly keep the thought that they are better. We can argue for hours without getting anywhere else but the same opinions that we had in the beginning. However, there is one other situation that actually pisses me off the most in those soccer discussions. It is when certain annoying individual comes to make funny at my team for losing a final against some other team that is not even his team. His team did not even qualified to the playoffs but he has to make funny at me for our vice position. That drives me crazy. Sometimes they remind me of “trolls”. Doing everything possible to make me explode in anger (It doesn’t mean I will punch somebody in the face because of that though) .They try to speak louder than me, laugh at every argument I use, just like a child. The fact that my team just lost, added with irritating commentaries; it is the perfect mix to make me rant about you for a long time.

RULE

Write whatever you want as long it does not affect the feelings of other people. Vocabulary such as racist or disrespect religious commentaries will not be tolerated.