By: Sylvia Davila MM
Bogotá/Copyright
Data and statistics are tools very much used by scientists, researches, journalists and people in general. Reviewing it, data regarding People is mainly divided by race, sex and religion. All of them concepts that have always been at the root of great confrontations in history. People are labeled as catholics, jews or muslims, white, black, latin, asian, men, woman, homosexuals. Labels that do precisely that: label people, set limits, differentiate, set apart, confront.
A world where people were labeled by what they do or by the stage of life they are, would have to be a different world. What keeps the world turning is not how people look, prey or lay but what they do. Mothers, retired people, students, farmers, soldiers, health specialist, teachers, builders, thinkers, etc. and, of course, children and elders. By focusing in the action itself or in the specific needs of people in certain stage on life, concepts that bear conflicting emotions like religion, race or sex would give way to all that people have in common. After all, what matters is what gets done./ January 11/2012 - Sylvia Davila M.(c)
Las estadísticas son una herramienta muy utilizada por científicos, investigadores, periodistas y la gente en general. Al mirarlas, casi todas dividen a la gente según raza, religión y sexo. Todos conceptos que han estado en la raíz de las grandes confrontaciones de la historia. A la gente se la etiqueta como católicos, judíos, musulmanes, blancos, negros, latinos, asiáticos, hombres, mujeres u homosexuales. Etiquetas que hacen precisamente eso: etiquetar gente, definir limites, diferenciar, dividir, confrontar.
Un mundo en el que la gente fuera etiquetada según lo que hace o el momento de la vida en que se encuentra, tendría que ser un mundo distinto. Madres, retirados, estudiantes, cultivadores, soldados, médicos, maestros, constructores, pensadores y, claro está, niños y viejos. Al centrarse en la actividad misma, conceptos cargados de emociones conflictivas como la religión, la raza o el sexo, darían paso a todo aquello que la gente tiene en común. Después de todo, lo que importa es lo que de hecho se hace./ January 11/2012 - Sylvia Davila (c)
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