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Ustedes los pobres, nosotros los ricos
En Colombia se dice que “los ricos quieren ser europeos, las clases medias norteamericanas y los pobres mexicanos”. Este libro explora el origen de este estereotipo en la presencia de las industrias culturales extranjeras, especialmente el cine en la primera mitad del siglo XX en la capital bogotana. Estas se convirtieron en instrumentos de segregación en las nuevas condiciones urbanas, para profundizar la estigmatización discursiva entre las clases sociales y mantener la estructura básica de la diferenciación social. Así, a la cabeza estaban las preferencias culturales eurocéntricas de las elites capitalinas, mientras se aceptaba lentamente la influencia cultural de los Estados Un...
The Island of Last Truth
"I don't remember who introduced me to Dr. Prendel. However, I do know that it was at the home of Martin Fleming, the psychiatrist, during a get-together of the faculty professors to celebrate his promotion from Assistant Dean to Dean, and I was immediately captivated by his reserved, taciturn attitude and the indifference with which he looked around him, as if he knew exactly what would happen and what would be said..." Legend has is that Dr. Matthew Prendel, an expert sailor, had been shipwrecked years before the action in The Island of Last Truth opens in contemporary New York. His boat was attacked by pirates. He survived thanks to an incredible stroke of luck, while his entire crew peri...
