8/13/2019 Colombian Values
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Vctor Alfonso Anaya
Colombian Values
Colombia is a traditional country; we give importance to the
concepts of the
manners, morality, and Catholic values. In fact, religion is so
essential in our lives that ithas been involved in concepts of
family, education, culture, etc. Colombian society can be
defined as a contradictory society: a religious one such as one
can identify religious values
on all of the parts of our lives and also a freeloader one which
the outstripped is the
national hero.
The begging of Colombian society is the family. In the family it
is usual most of the things
as a child such as. Elements like: Values, ethics, how to relate
to the others, and religion.
The religious life in a Colombian stars since the age of one
year: Its frequent those
families baptize their children at that age. Since then the
child is always receiving
formation in the basics of Catholicism such as to pray every
year and go to the church. It is
frowned that adults werent baptized. In fact, religion is such
part of our lives that we
have many expressions that involve religious issues as: Thanks
god and God forbid!
Since Catholicism is the main religion in the national territory
it is not a surprise that one
of the most important democratic parties is a church-based one:
The Partido
Conservador.
On the other hand, despite of the huge influence of the
Catholicism there exist a
generalize idea of getting thing no matter the methods for this.
The Colombian admires
the excellence and success but he/ she want to get those things
in the simplest mannerThe easier the better is always a Colombian
phrase (Semana). The thinking of It is
wrong but does not matter has been an ideology that created a
lot of social problems in
the public order. Also, hardworking and discipline have been
forgotten and viewed as
unnecessary things. For example: there are a lot of people in
Colombia who prefers to live
with only the benefits of the state without working.
The contradictory essence of our society allows that a low
education level which promotes
an increasing decadence of the society as a whole. The
generalized thought of the society
is a negative perspective of the future of our nation. It is
important to eliminate the
freeloader concept in our society and to reinforce the religious
concepts with hardworking
ones that can be create a productive society with social
equality, peace and based in
fundamental principles.
