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SIXTH TASK

        Where is the Outrage? Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times.                                 In this lecture, Henry Giroux gave us important aspects to keep in mind, when talking about education. he points out that education has been directly affected by political and corporate. unfortunately, the corporations and politics that are closely related have directly affected the way of teaching in an educational institution. Imposing new forms of teaching, which is based solely on the transmission of concepts, it is because this system does not want people to think and question those concepts. This could carry out new ways of thinking, putting into question the system itself. However, the market according to Henry not only has influenced in the education but also in the culture, removing the possibility to people not only to think by their own but also how they should act.  Givi...

FIFTH TASK

STEREOTYPES   Stereotype is considered as an overgeneralization of a certain group. the majority of them are related with  the culture and the behavior of  the people. between countries is common to have those stereotypes, many of them do not harm any country, however there are negative stereotypes that in a certain way affect and is harmful to the culture of a country.    Colombia has been one of the most criticized countries, due to our history, while many of Colombians struggle to demonstrate and give a different meaning to the history, there are few who are responsible for the bad reputation of the country.  one clear fact is that  When you ask a foreigner about Colombia, what he  usually thinks immediately is drugs, violence, kidnappings, etc., but we are much more than that.    This not only makes that people can to refrain visit our country, but also that when a colombian wants to travel abroad, we are criticized for...