Colombia - Critical Social Dilemmas Part 3

For foreign nationals and expatriates with young ones you should have a number of the following concerns in addition to a few the others of your own in these crucial areas. Here in part three, we continue steadily to consider critical problems of Colombian culture including the consumer protection laws, educational program, crime, minorities and the impact of unemployment that reaches as high as 80% - and no, that is not really a misprint. Continue reading...11. The training program advances vagabond attitudes.There currently exists an insurance policy in public schools TO not "fail" students. Classes can be missed by you (Did YOU ever play "Hookey?"). It is possible to fail even an endless sequence of "makeup" exams. You can overlook review, class involvement, homework or nearly effective activity in class and the novice will still "pass" to the next grade level at the end of the institution year. Now in lots of schools, there's no preparation. Slothful, slow, uncaring and unmotivated pupils pass from one rank to another with practically no effort at all realizing that they very nearly can not fail. This implies that barring all else the pupils do not obtain rude "wake-up" phone until they enter the university level or the workforce and find out, that in life, you are able to fail. The quality of Colombian education can vary widely according to site, charge and administration from primary through the college level.12. There's little or NO customer protection.Talk in regards to a bone to pick, this one's a biggie for me personally. No time before gets the term "Caveat emptor" - "Let the buyer beware" been right. From buying a home or condominium, to a vehicle, main appliances, furniture or services and products (maids, plumbers, electricians, technicians) of most varieties, there's practically no recourse for an unwary customer. Moments are disappeared by sellers following a important selling, it is rarely made by consumer cases to a the courtroom and enforcement of contracts or legal arrangements can be laughable. Employees, when chosen for in-house jobs in just about any job, trade or company should be constantly be "watched" to avoid robbery, using extortionate "breaks" or merely "goofing off" face to face. There's no "overall system" for certifying individuals or experts, so discovering qualified support workers can be quite a small problem all of the time.13. Towns and regions of the united states inhabited mainly by minorities are very under-developed.The first several times I went into black-populated regions of the Pacific coast, I not quite cried at the absolutely primitive conditions people reside in - here is the 21st century, I reminded myself. Guys have landed on the moon, orbited our planet for days at time, plumbed the ocean's frigid depths and constructed structures that remain true through the clouds. Yet individuals are obliged to call home without even the standard of amenities. No running water or toilets. No energy. Forget even the sign of a phone. Unpaved streets and roads where there are also roads at all. Frequent flooding. No sewage services. Flies and mosquitoes infest every thing getting the foreseeable illnesses using them. Nutritionally bad food diets consisting of but a couple of fruits, veggies and what they may look. In 2001 though, gorgeous Colombia topped Vanessa Alexandra Mendoza Bustos, actually from one of Colombia's lowest most pristine areas - the Choco, its first black Miss Colombia. A more recent black Miss Colombia finalist also mentioned that she'd "never seen a vehicle until she was not exactly 20 years old!"14. Unemployment is generally at sky-high prices and is continually rising.The stark distinction of the "Haves" and the "Have Nots" has hardly ever been more pronounced than it is here. The town of Cartagena, the so-called "crown jewel" of Colombia is but an example. While vast amounts are spent to fund the pageantry of the Miss Colombia Beauty Pageant, just a couple of blocks away nearby citizens endure flooding, open sewers, aging structures and other essential features - even while the competition is in progress. The unemployment rate among blacks in the region is reputed to stay excess of 80%. Could it be any wonder that crime is just a significant problem there and in other locations as well? But this of course, is not the facial skin of Cartagena that gets publicized beyond Colombia.15. Violent crimes are viewed passe.It was once that crazy, heinous crimes surprised, staled and impressed even the staunchest people. Not here, not anymore. When Luis Alfredo Garavito, one of Colombia's many infamous guilty serial child murderers (who has confessed to significantly more than 200 child murders over a year period) premiered from jail, not after, but TWICE, households and people were ultimately up in arms. Every time he premiered, more children died. He almost got launched again several years back, but fortunately, hasn't been up to now. Violent murders on the streets of Cali, Bogota and Medellin, Colombia's three largest cities, hardly price the TELEVISION or tabloid news anymore with only the most peculiar, awful or heinous of the actually being documented. If you had personally witnessed 11 crazy murders in the streets as I have in the last a dozen years?In part four, the problems of crime, coffee and beautiful girls are those types of on touch how would you feel. See after this you.