Poverty in Cancun, Mexico.

Three years ego I went to Cancun, Mexico. When you see at T.V. or in the computer you always see the place beautiful, but that it is just in the places where tourism come. When I was in the hotel I decided to explorer Cancun. The first time I was not sure to do it because I heard from some people that some place are dangerous. I took the bus and did the trip and after almost two hours the bus goes  far of the tourism place. I saw poor people actually young people at the street. Is sad that a place where every year has a lo money you can find children living at the street. I think the government needs to do some rules for people who are owner in some place where they win a lo of money (some owners are foreign,) they need help to the poverty to have better life. With the money they can provided programs to the children after and before school, summer cam where they can learn about personal and social safety, drug awareness, emergency situations, and crime prevention. But not just the children need help, the parents need more money to support their children. They can give better benefits for workers and rise the minimum wage.  It is sad, but this problem is around the world and the  children are the future and some government don't support them.
By Margarita Cortez

Does the World Still care About American Culture?

Does the World Still care About American Culture?

I think in this time the world doesn't care about American culture because with the technology we have right know like internet people can see another cultures. Long time ego American was the number one because his economic was high, people from another countries want come to learn American culture, but most of today's young people grew up in the absence of some important values, young people don't recognize what is good about themselves. Some people are negative about their own culture. Last summer I went to Mexico, I took my children and some nephews to the museum in that place we can see old things about Mexican culture, I was very surprise when they told me that they want to go to another place because they were boring. I stared explain them that culture is very interesting. They probably see the world very differently. I think culture is part of people's lives. Influences their views, their values, their loyalties, we need to have perspective and understand our own culture to understand from other countries, it is good to be flexible  and open to other cultures. We need a flexible mind with witch we can learn about mistakes in our history and turn them into positive lessons. People who are older we need to teach young people the of importance to learn another culture not just American culture. It is sad that young people can have more opportunity to meet another culture using internet, but they are more worry about to pretend to be someone else  or how be popular.
By Margarita Cortez