Building Citizenship: building?

Building Citizenship: ... Building?

In these days, in International Plaza, which connects the cities of Santana do Livramento, Brazil and Rivera, Uruguay, better known as "La Frontera de la Paz" has implemented a program that is very laudable aim The search for greater awareness of what is meant by "citizen" a way of showing what is possible when society as a whole, pours its potential for common action towards the less fortunate.

During these meetings, citizens can, among many other activities, to regularize their documentation, make health checks such as blood pressure, diabetes, dental clinic, immunization, etc.. as well as different activities, all related to their welfare and recreation.

You may see public education efforts through activities aimed at young children: such as, respect for traffic signals, where children have age-appropriate vehicles, which move in circuits that can test the knowledge theoretical received.

Understandably, in these days of intense activity, a festive Queen of collective fun with great music and fun for everyone, with food stalls crowded, lots of beer for youth and adults, soft drinks and sweets for the most small, in a word, the square was full of people willing to make the most of this meeting to which the authorities have called with the suggestive name of "Building Sovereignty".

In those days the place looks his best, full lighting, policing, traffic inspectors, cleaning, toilets, finally, a whole infrastructure to enable adequate attention to an audience that comes to the family and spend long hours for almost all day.

During the course of this activity, people who have come with the slogan of "constructing sovereignty" behave in a very particular, in a blatant demonstration that for them the concept of citizenship is nothing but an abstract reference, something mentioned in the speeches, which does not concern them, and especially anything that forces them to the environment, at most care about their own clan, have fun with yours, to take full advantage that is offers without thinking at all in others.

What we see, everything conspires against what we understand as civic culture, what is happening there is a postcard that shows the degree we have reached antisocial behavior, behavior that is applied by everyone, adults who are the paradigms of everything should not be done, such as younger children, who grow up adopting these attitudes-factly.





I understand that this way of stating what we observed, may result in readers feeling that encourages us an intention to conduct a destructive criticism, to undermine all the efforts made with the good intention of creating awareness of belonging to a network social, which we call, citizenship.

We accept this risk, which may annoy or even mention irritate more than one, but, although it may give the effect of a suppository pepper, I think it's worth explaining the events that have led to our discussion.

Events such as: If we are eating, we drop the remains in the same place where we consume, at most the run with your toes so you do not bother, we, of course, the same goes for the drink, we drop the glass, once empty, our hand and something else, and stating that this is done both on the street or in the middle of a ballroom, not to mention the toilets, let alone men's or ladies, these designations are only used in the game of chess.

Behavior is not typical of someone who has a minimum degree of social awareness, acts performed in public square, for those who have been called for nothing less than "public building" acts are not limited to a particular event, such as you mentioned now, but are repeated in every public place, every day and every hour, giving a clear demonstration of the degree of predation that the so-called citizen, does the spaces should be preserved, as a common good that we belongs to all, and therefore, be an inalienable responsibility of each.

We refer to common attitudes that so no one represses, actions that annoy many, but that no complaint or claim, simply let "that life takes us," as expressed in a popular song, though, in the charter intimate, we are all aware of the extent of deterioration as a society is slipping us for some inadvertently, other times, those of barbarism, which unfortunately we could not overcome.

Hugo W, Arostegui