Hinking (Kicking) of
this issue, Rhetoric, it seemed to me US speakers are more well known as ours.
Millions of people stared in front of a tv device to listen to their words, not
many US citizens would wait to listen what an african president would have to
say, not matter if he is a dictator putting world feet up. That might be the
reason for not many latin people speaking to you. You put me nervous.
Does it
exist somethink like a Latinamerican Rhetoric? I´m Lucy Tatiana Galvis Peñuela,
Colombian, and I´ll be talking to you for two hours ... I´m not that serious
...
Not many
people around me, Bogotá nowadays, do cultivate rhetoric but it is very popular
to include what people is thinking in the songs, we do really prefer the singing
voices as a way of being influent and to move masses. How come, I asked? That
comes from medieval experience of singning catholic rituals with a pedagogical
purpose. Think of a Baptiste church and you can catch Latins' feelings. To make
you figure out a first hand catch from latin streets, I choose
"Cantinflas", the popular mexican character because it looks kind of
contradictory he could communicate, thou flopping all discourses, he is too
influent, even today. All latins relate to "Cantinflas" because all
we people believe we are poor and loser countries. Thou inequity, we are
convoked to laugh as a preventing measure.
Then,
breaking through the corner, I may sound kind of puertorrican to you, you
always can find an old radio replying "Paquita la del barrio", an old
singer. She represents a genre of music where women attack men using really
rush words, the means of this is a way of equilibrating forces due extended
domestic violence in our popular families. So she goes like (a phrase from her
lyrics translated): "two-legged rat, creeping animal", then let`s go
friends to next match.
I`d like to
mention Rigoberta Menchu, a too bright indigenous lawyer, nowadays she has been
convoking latinamerican women to get back to school and become lawyers because our
countries are needing real leaderships. I don´t know if they have proper use of
spanish language, maybe not, oh, yes,
think she does, she is a mighty lawyer, "Cantinflas" and the
others, for sure not, but their entonation, the way they emphasize in convictions,
the way they represent our contra-cultural movements, are the arguments that
make me retrouve them.
I found
Socratic method resourceful for gathering my questions, so going further, I
found a couple meaningful latinamerican speeches at You Tube. First of all,
Fidel Castro`s Speech at UN after winning Cuban Revolution on january, 1959. It
is a four hour turning point speech about cold war. Then, an elder one, this is
not properly an latin speaker, but we recognize this north south path as important
in latin development of its culture and speech, this is well known President
Roosevelt`s I took Panama. It should be organized first this one, then
Castro`s, from a historical timeline, thou Castro is a main reference for our
modern speech, as I said, we don´t have too many speakers, or oportunities to
give a whole world outstanding speech, about any topic world woudl be
interested at.
Most of
Latinamerican Speeches have to do with relationships between USA and the rest
of continent. Then, we have speeches related to nature, environment, that`s the
one proposed by Chile`s President Pepe Mujica signing agreements about
sustainable development at UN. Speech turns about happiness,as a topic, and
it`s near in spirit to Seattle Chief letter to american president at the end of
19th century. As you notice is important indigenous ancestors' concepts for
latins dayly life. It`s that so, I found some conmemorative ones. 500 years
celebration of America`s discovery, and 200 years of Independence bicentennial.
I think we
still need to study a lot more about latinamerican rhetoric, this is not an
exhaustive review, but first step to follow traces and tendencies in
Latinamerica's discourses, so we can finnally point out Gabriel García
Márquez's speech receiving nobel prize, and south of continet dictatorial
speeches, I guess they might sxists for experts to study phenomena, before
saying latinamerican speeches show the way of construct a territory, people's
feelings at a range of time, and how they are important to convoke audiences to
be persuaded. Most of these latinamerican speeches talk to emotions and senses
more than to reason. Many people call this populism, and many latin people left
believing in this promises, which can explain why there are too little writing to
be spoken or worth keeping.
People is
not writing nor reading, they are suspicious practices, sum to lack of
oportunities for a right learning. Anyone believes in pseudo-prophets, anyone
propose new ideals, there are a lidership crisis, liders are getting murdered.
All we think school needs to start teaching people to think, but more of us
does not know what to think about? I have proposed a couple of thinks,
ontology, who am I? aesthetics, how do we perceive world? Epestemology, how do
I organize what I learn from world? ethic, what`s good or bad? logic, does it
have any sense what I think, say and do? and rhetoric, I do really have
something to say, it is my liberty and my rights. The way people construct
democracy, civilization, public politics. School at Colombia might have to
think of this within the curriculum, more important of know a huge quantity of
knowledges, kids are not garbage bags, is to establish formative processes for
living life at community, at the family. Though both purposes, only writing,
reading and saying is going to give us peace, and this rescue of historical
documents for that purpuese is going to be fundamental for our development
purposes, we have not do this homework.
Practical
excersice: Once Sócrates asked: (ask by yourself as been Socrates ...).
Socrates was smartian ...
You´re
going to love this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ry1uvwjbEE
What
Cantinflas means is: I don´t believe in speeches. Which speeches? Americans
ones.
Rigoberta Menchú`s: Qué es la paz? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou9EhesDabc
Rhetoric. Harvard. 2020.
No hay comentarios:
Publicar un comentario