Tribes Guaraní missions are victims of discrimination
Posted April 20, 2011
The media and cultural battle does not occur only in the print media with national coverage. The dispute over the meaning and appropriation of the "stories" also includes regional newspapers responding to the many economic and political interests sometimes sector. In this case, the missionary journal First Edition, which belongs to the provincial deputy Claudio Wipplinger (Work and Progress Party), published in its April 3 edition of a drawing, which claimed to be a "joke" showing a child member of the Guarani community M'bya with his mother "cooking" a netbook after the provincial government deliver these educational tools in the framework of the Equal Connect driven by the national administration.
This vignette highlights the grotesque and pitiful the very high levels of discrimination, racism, xenophobia and prejudice that prevail not only in the media but also in political and economic areas that claim to represent society. The drawing, at a level of initial analysis, intended as an "attack" the governor missionary Maurice Closs, with a caricature of the president and the text: "Can not say I do not invest in education ... giving the M'bya netbooks ". But, by the way, the medium also belies any grotesque position regarding the Guarani ethnic groups, where they are still considered people under no opportunity for personal development. Demonstrating an old-fashioned colonialism discriminatory, prejudiced and reactionary, which says it makes no sense to provide the development tools for the colonized, because they know what to do with them. With this paradigm, they said, too, that the wealth that they had not useless. And they stole everything. E imposed a speech, to every ethnic group and the whole society "sanctimonious", who said they did not deserve anything. Or education or health, or land. A situation of neglect and abandonment that continues until today. On the site of the Mercosur Media Network ( http://www.mediosdelmercosur.com/opinion/desprecio_a_la_discrimina.html ), Silvia Torres stressed: "That students Guarani indigenous peoples or other gain the benefits offered by the state should not be more than an ordinary episode, liable to be highlighted or questioned like any other, but never cause for ridicule, scorn or, as in this case, the cause of a discriminatory remark. For what the author meant the picture? What students Guarani not give a good use for netbooks? What they think or deserve only food and, therefore, need not have access to computers? What to have a different ancient culture from the Western and Christian "or the simple fact of being poor should not have access to advanced tools such as these devices?"
addition of brutal discrimination and crafty, how bad is that highlighting the clumsy media operations of an industry that claims to represent the provincial deputy Claudio Wipplinger, former provincial president of PRO.
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