Well...
So, Monday was hectic and got home by 3 am, which of course made it impossible for me to blog since I crawled to bed and fell asleep almost immediately... However, it is never too late to double-blog, right?
Continuing with my "Tasks", I've been asked to reflect on the following statement:
Latinos
today are a force to be reckoned with—growing, not only in numbers, but also in
influence—changing the fabric of the country we live in, and thanks to the
breadth of today’s technology, able to establish a true sense of belonging.
Well, YES. The statement pretty much summarizes all we've been talking about for a week. We've said before that Latinos' influence has been growing up by the hour, and I mentioned a few examples of Latino people making a difference in the arts, media, politics, etc.
Technology helps establish a true sense of belonging because it is everywhere and we use it for everything. TV shows, news, blogs, social networks and many, many other sources of technology have, as I have said before, made cultures merge, share and mix in order to create a global hybrid that's expanding a new wave of "being" in the country we live in.
Social networks have killed distances. What seemed so far away, remote or distant became the number one mean of communication between people, creating social, cultural and practical bridges that allow us to share our lives through posts, pictures, events, tweets, comments, blogs, tags, hashtags, shares and more. They have created a sense of universal community in which people from different paths of life get to comment, talk, exchange points of view, discuss and even advertise themselves and/or their work.
As long as we have something to talk about and someone to listen (or read) us, we will belong...
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