the colours of us - children and comparatives

Katz wrote and illustrated the story in affirmation of her adopted Guatemalan daughter and her friends, and the diversity that surrounds them. The message is heavy, but it's made palatable by the loving words and the brightly colored, lively illustrations, which are a combination of collage, gouache, and colored pencil. The pictures of Lena and her friends and city neighbors celebrate the delicious colors of the individual people, all brown, and each one different.


My name is Lena, and I am seven.  I am the color of cinnamon.  Mom says she could eat me up.
My mom's the color of French toast.  She's an artist.  Mom's teaching me how to mix colors.  She says that if I mix red, yellow, black, and white paints in the right combination, I will have the right brown for a picture of me.
"The right brown?  But Mom, brown is brown, " I say. 
"That's not so," Mom says.  "There are lots of different shades of brown.  Let's take a walk.  You'll see."

We go to the playground, where we see my friend Sonia.  "Sonia is a light yellow brown," Mom says.  "Just like creamy peanut butter," I say.  "My favorite."
Isabella is chocolate brown, like the cupcakes we had for her birthday.
Lucy has skin that's peachy and tan.
My best friend, Jo-Jin lives close to the playground.  Jo-Jin is the color of honey.
Two streets down, we meet my cousin Kyle.  His skin is a reddish brown, like leaves in fall.
...several people later...
Mom and I walk to the park to eat our lunch.  "Look at everyone's legs, Mom--all the different shades."  
...several more people later...
My friends leave and I go downstairs.  I am happy as I get out my paints:  yellow, red, black, and white.  I think about all the wonderful colors I will make, and I say their names out loud:  "Cinnamon, chocolate, and honey.  Coffey, toffee, and butterscotch."  They sound so delicious.  
At last my pictures are done, and I've painted everyone.  "Look, Mom," I say.  "The colors of us!"


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Afresh mottoes from BNW, was Huxley right?

BNW still held the position 56 in the best 100 novels at The Guardian in the UK ranking.

          

Have a look at current 2015 news, with some MOTTOes from BNW:

1- "A gram of Big Brother VIP edition 2015 is better than a damn."

The greatest good for the greatest number of people, according to Huxley, is to minimize any negative emotions or feelings.

LASt week share of TV mentioned the  23,7% whose choice was eligió Telecinco, 3.463.000 viewrs (21.8 in Catalonia).  

2-  "...COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY for ESPAÑA"

Fulfilling the Prophecy of Brave New World "Community, Identity, Stability" is the motto of Rajoy slogan for November elections. Alast intent on keeping the situation intact. In the stable state, the citizens must be happy with the status quo; not adventurous to imagine a better world (Podemos), and must not think of a worse one (PSOE).

3- " The more stitches the less riches..."

SALES in after Xmas spree: Creating consumption is one of the chief tasks of government because consumption keeps lower castes employed with no time on their hands for disruptive behavior.

 Last, but without doubt not least, a caste society being elitist in itself.

4.  I'm so glad I'm a Beta. Alpha children wear grey. 

As we have not data from the Reign of Spain, we visit a well-known Kingdom:The Alpha, Beta, .... society (BNW 1931)  Was Huxley right?The tone in that dystopia is pretty cold and calculating. The "manufacturing" of people seems perfect, or not?

'Deeply Elitist' UK Is Dominated By Oxbridge And Private Schools

The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, which is a non-departmental government advisory body, said it was deeply concerned about the dramatically elitist society which it said its report had uncovered.
While it acknowledged that many of the most intelligent individuals attend top schools and universities, the commission said that the disproportionate number of privately and Oxbridge-educated people in top jobs suggested a chronic lack of social mobility in the UK, and that those reaching the highest positions were not always doing so through merit. 

Of the Cabinet, 59% went to Oxbridge

Around 36% of the Cabinet also went to private schools, compared to only 7% of the public as a whole.A third of all MPs (33%) and 22% of the Shadow Cabinet went to private schools, the report found.The findings for politicians mirrored the wider trend for other influential positions in society.Those who have studied at Oxford or Cambridge make up 75% of senior judges, 50% of diplomats, 44% of public body chairs.The figures are drastically disproportionate with the national average of less than 1%.More than one in three (38%) of members of the House of Lords also went to Oxbridge.People who have studied at private schools also dominate the top jobs. They make up 71% of senior judges, 62% of senior armed forces officers, 53% of senior diplomats, 50% of members of the House of Lords and 44% of the Sunday Times Rich List.Judges are the professional group with the most advantaged educational backgrounds, according to the report.One in seven judges (14%) went to one of just five private schools: Eton, Westminster, Radley, Charterhouse and St Paul’s Boys school.

Areas of the media industry were also revealed to be dominated by the two Oxbridge universities: 47% of newspaper columnists and 33% of BBC executives studied at Oxbridge.

our neighbours- EU in Europe -The black ewes

Do we love our neighbours?

 EUphoria at the black ewes

"To pull their legs? a laughing stock? I am engaging with it and laughing a lot," says my friend Raf.

"If you do not get the joke.... 

You may have  (read part B below)  ancestry....  That’s why ewe don’t get it.

PART  A. 

Read about our cousins across the Atlantic:

• The tragedy of Canada is they could have had French cuisine, American technology and British culture. 

• Instead they ended up with British cuisine, French technology and American culture.

PART  B. 

• Minorised citizen  :              "Do you have color TVs?" /
• Part of the majority citizen "Yes, we do." 
• Minorised citizen  :                "Give me a green one."

 B.1.    No one else seemed to mind the cliches and the stereotypes of my poor neighbours:  

In jokes, they are depicted as generally primitive, uncivilized, and simple-minded in a naive kind of way.

• Chucki
• Belgium
• Derry
• Austrian 
• Lepe
• (....) 

 001_ Explore   this webpage:     https://www.nationalstereotype.com/



 B.2.    Albeit who is not a bit like this?

Explore  this webpage EU at 60:  ... link  



PART 1.   ORAL_2   

Your partner/s  can have very strong ideas about

 humour and stereotypes.

• “Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian and it is all organised by the Swiss. Hell is where the police are German, the cooks are English, the mechanics are French, the lovers are Swiss, and it is all organised by the Italians”

Which, depending on your preference, could be heaven or hell?

Check the would-be key... here




PART 2.   

Everybody makes mistakes sometimes....

inefable Yanko Tsetkov -map of prejudice:

CODA: 

Martin's Positive stereotypes:

 

such as ‘Japanese and Koreans are all very smart’, 

‘the French are very romantic’, and ‘all Canadians are polite.’”

Click an pick up your negative ones  

   mapping stereotypes

or Independence day!