Writing in a Second Language

This year I have decided to have a different experience on the new year holiday. I’ll go to Amazon Forest, precisely to a city that is 2 hours away from the capital, where the access is only by boat. I’ll meet a group of people I don’t know previously, but I’m sure this will not be a problem, because I believe that trips are a good context to make friends.

The trip will have 8 days and the idea is to dedicate 2 days for social work with the community of the region. We have been talking to the village leader and he told us that people of that region want to learn about entreupreneurship and business and some of us will study and prepare a speech with good tips about these topics. Moreover, we will help to paint some houses and build some trash bins to help on the nature conservartion.

On the other days, we will have several activities, like a day listening histories of the indigenous people, a night learning about how to survive in the Forest, boat trips around Rio Negro, a lot of opportunities to taste the local food, time to swim in the river and the new year eve party with Brazilian and regional music.

It is clear that convervative opinions have gained prominence in the political scene of several countries and influenced the political direction of the world population. In Brazil,  the election of Jair Bolsonaro demonstrated a turning point in brazilian political conduct. After 16 years led by a left-wing political party, the majority of the brazilian population decided to elect a leader with convervative opinions, who is not afraid to appear racist, misogynist and sexist. 

 In the United States, it is also posible to observe a leader with similar thoughts. It is true that each country has different reasons for the rise of conservative opinions, but it is posible to visualize some themes that are recurrent debated and understood as true flags to be defended by theses people. Protection against immigration, national identity, respect for traditional family values and religious beliefs are usually the themes defended. 

In my opinion, there was no increase in the number of people who think conservatively, but the evolution of social networks has enabled people to join their voices to fight for what they believe. In addition, access to information has enabled people to follow the political process more closely.