CITY EVACUATION POSSIBILITY!!!!!! 😱

THURSDAY 21st, APRIL 2016 (SUNNY WITH TOXIC AIR, ASHES AND CHEMICALS IN THE AIR)



Sadly something really bad happened yesterday, and the danger may be still there or here too, yesterday a petrol plant or chemical plant exploded in the outskirts of the city, well a little bit further, between 4 states (my city Coatzacoalcos, and other 3 Nanchital, Minatitlán etc.)

I was a little bit closer to the place (at the internship thing in the city center) but not enough, I mean the explotion felt stronger but only the walls shook and trembled, I thought It was the sound of a ball hitting the walls so hard but I left the library and the big somoke mushroom was so astonishing something had exploded so hard.

The smoke was so dark and it was about time for ashes to start falling, the principal and teachers had to evacuate the school, everything was so quick and I left early too. The ashes were like snow and they produced itchy skin and while going home it smelled like gasoline and the smell caused  sorethroat.

Late that day the president annouced there were no classes tomorrow (today). A lot of people died and the chemicals in the air and the risk of bursting pipelines might be a big reason to evacuate the city. This is so heavy, this has never happened before, I mean things had exploded before but It has never been an evacuation.

It'll feel so extrange if it happens, I would have to leave my home. Oh God! I would't believe it.




I'm so sorry for the hudreds that died in the explosion and we are aware for the news.
I wonder what will this mean to my life?

THE MYTH ABOUT MEXICANS

Today I would like to talk about something that attracted my attention, I was reading an article about the myths about Mexican people and then I thought, well I live in Mexico and I know what's going on here so I want to deny some things that are internationally thought that Mexicans are.

First I want to clarify some points , I'm not 100% Mexican, I'm the result of many migrations that occurred a long time ago, I mean I was born and rise in Mexico but I can say that my ethnicity  is not "latino", I'm  white and mediterranean raze, well a long time ago, well a really long time ago my family was French that's why my father has the last name Seymour but well I don't own it because is my dad's second lastname, well, then we were Spanish and my family a long time ago moved from Spain to Mexico. So my great grandparents were Spanish, curiously both from my mother and father.

This is just to clarify some facts, as I live in a seaport, you know, here there  are some differents ethnicities.

Also I want to say that my family has some traditions inherited from our ancestors and many form Mexicans.

But well I lived all my live here and I know about this place and I can opine about it, and also I want to say that just because  I don't like the weather of my city, some traditions, the insecurity and what the politics do with this country, that doesn't mean that I don't like Mexico, it's true that I'm not patriotic but I still like this place.

1. Not all Mexicans are brown, as I said there are lots of ethnicities and a clear example It's me, even you don't know how I look like, why would I lie?, so I'm white, my hair it's black and my eyes are brown but still white and Mexican, and also as we all know being brown of any colour it's ok, remember I'm denying wrong facts about Mexicans.

2.Not all Mexicans are gang members, rarely have I seen a guy member of a gang, and there are many gangs as in any place, and not because somebody is brown and Mexican/ Latin that means that he is obviously in a gang, I have seen white guys in gangs, here in my city. (but rarely I see them).

3.There are Mexicans who don't drink, or are smoker or drug addicts, many people drinks as in  any place, in fact most of the people I see don't drink, or smoke., and is not like if there were drug addicts in every corner of this place but we do have drugs, I meant not me but there are xD.

4.Most of Mexicans are very polite, seriously most of the people is polite, we always say, please, thank you, scuse me, I'm sorry, pardon me etc.., obviously there are people that maybe are having a bad day and you know, they don't care, as well as there are people here that simply is not polite because they weren't taught to be like that or maybe they don't want to.

5.It's true that the education in Mexico is a little bit poor, but it doesn't mean that there aren't  people with tons of knowledge or with a degree, and I think the school is not related to how polite we are, that's up to you. 

Quoting the article author "Movies have created an image of the Mexicans as a not educated person because they always make Mexicans the waitress, the gardener, the gang member, or the housekeeper and not the lawyer, or the cop. These all-false images are kept by viewers and think that all people are the same and that they judge the people by what the media says about that ethnic group."

6.Most of the Mexican men are open minded these days, the macho man thing is just a stereotype, as in any place there are men that think they are the kings of the house and the hit their wives. as the author of the blog said "The movies made the complementary punch to declare a Mexican macho in how they make them act in the movies."

Finally I agree with all that the article guy said; "most of these stereotypes are false and that the Mexicans are not a perfect culture and that every culture has ethnic problems. That many people judge other cultures for what they hear or see on the news and only see the bad part of the culture, not the good part. I will leave the judgment to you and hope that you judge anybody for what they are and not for what you have heard about them."

Also all this is not true, we don't wear those hats, neither the thing around the shoulders I don't even know how is it called, we don't live in deserts, actually there many kinds  of ecosystems in Mexico, where I live It's so hot but still a tropical place, a jungle, there are also a lot of forests, and there are cold places like Puebla and Chiapas. Not all Mexicans are brown as well as not all British people  are white, something that it's true is that there are a lot of nopales xD,  personally I don't like tortillas but I eat them any way.

Also real tortillas are like this!;

Not like this:

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DECREASSED CRISTMAS

9 DE DICIEMBRE DEL 2014 10:03 AM (16 DÍAS NAVIDAD, 22 AÑO NUEVO)
(25° BRUMA Y YA FLIPA EL CALOR)

Navidad..., muchos dirían que es un pretexto para el suceso de muchas cosas o la excusa a muchos de los gastos e irresponsabilidades de muchas personas, yo no estoy seguro de que pensar hacerca de esto, no porque no signifique nada para mí si no porque de tantas opiniones y conceptos hacerca de la navidad que para mí es difícil crear uno sin pensar en las cosas que ya he escuchado de otros y aceptarlas como un pensamiento retorcido que sale de mí.

Así esta es una de las ocasiones en que no reflexiono o pienso en todo esto si no que me dejo llevar un poco por la locura de esta temporada, bueno eso siempre y cuando no haga lo que no haría.

Algo que sí pienso es que es un bonito pretexto (con todas y sus imperfecciones) para ser lindo con el progimo, ya que como humanos nos cuesta encontrar un pretexto o un razón para hacerlo todos los días.

En mi casa cada vez más el "espíritu navideño" se hace más pequeño, por ejemplo en estos días ya tendríamos el árbol puesto en la casa.