Two decades after the Tiananmen Square Massacre in Beijing, this event still remains a taboo in China.
Censorship by the domestic government has become stronger and toughter than ever reaching newspapers, internet and all kind of media. Chinese press is actually forbbiden to make any statement referring this event. Even the citizens are prevented from making any research on the internet to find out what happened in the Tiananmen Massacre on June the 4th of 1989. Any attempt to find out either on Baidu or Sohu (Chinese search engines) is automatically blocked and the result is the sistem getting reinitialized.
Even if Google.cn is used for doing the same research, the results found are about Tiananmen Square as a historical place; nothing related to June the 4th. Results related to the event are blocked even in Google, and clicking on them gets the system reinitialized.
Furthermore, if the press wants to make any statement or reference about that date, a special permission from the government is required, otherwise jail and lost of job is the penalty.
Most of protests (specially in the Olympic Games of 2008, that was seen as a way of wiping out the memory of the people) are made from abroad; those who have mentioned any sight of this tragical event in China are in jail and today 31 journalist and 48 cyber-dissidents are currently in prison for "illegaly divulging a state secret abroad". The government is accused by all means for harassing journalists with abusive measures and for not letting exiled journalists to return to China safely.
lunes, 22 de marzo de 2010
FROM USA TO CANADA
Back in the XIX century, Canada was far from what it's considered today: a great destiny. It was the United States of America the country that would fulfill everyone's expectations; it was not cold, far, and most important, it was not insignificant.
However, a rapid expansion in the economic sectors that boosted the domestic economy demanded people from overseas, people different than the commonly preferred inmigrants (UK's finest and Americans) so they could keep developing using both domestic and overseas workers. Therefore, Canada started to choose who could get in and who couldn't based on skills (as today) and endly this policy led the country to have the highest rate of legal immigrant workers.
Canada today is considered one of the greatest places to live and work. Not only for its policy towards immigrants (which are recieved and treted with respect) but for its job opportunities for people from overseas. It's quite interesting how a well developed policy for atracting immigrants has led the country to have a solid domestic economy, an excellent quiality of life, lots of job opportunities. No matter how difficult it is, Canada is an example of how dealing with migrations might result in benefits for the host country; the rest of the countries should learn from this.
Another fact is that, Canada has managed to maintain the different cultures intact, instead of becoming a melting pot, the multiculturalism is seen everywhere, and more than that, pluralist multiculturalism. Its cultural richness makes also the country attractive for foreigners, which are the ones who bring good (and sometimes bad) things.
Info taken from: The Past and Future of Immigration to Canada, by David Verbeeten
However, a rapid expansion in the economic sectors that boosted the domestic economy demanded people from overseas, people different than the commonly preferred inmigrants (UK's finest and Americans) so they could keep developing using both domestic and overseas workers. Therefore, Canada started to choose who could get in and who couldn't based on skills (as today) and endly this policy led the country to have the highest rate of legal immigrant workers.
Canada today is considered one of the greatest places to live and work. Not only for its policy towards immigrants (which are recieved and treted with respect) but for its job opportunities for people from overseas. It's quite interesting how a well developed policy for atracting immigrants has led the country to have a solid domestic economy, an excellent quiality of life, lots of job opportunities. No matter how difficult it is, Canada is an example of how dealing with migrations might result in benefits for the host country; the rest of the countries should learn from this.
Another fact is that, Canada has managed to maintain the different cultures intact, instead of becoming a melting pot, the multiculturalism is seen everywhere, and more than that, pluralist multiculturalism. Its cultural richness makes also the country attractive for foreigners, which are the ones who bring good (and sometimes bad) things.
Info taken from: The Past and Future of Immigration to Canada, by David Verbeeten
sábado, 13 de marzo de 2010
lunes, 1 de febrero de 2010
Culture VS Organisational Culture
The best known definition of Culture, putting aside other meanings and interpretations, is the one commonly embraced by a vast number of authors which is: "set of behaviours, beliefs and attitudes that are shared by a group of people" whether it's a country, a city, an organisation or a family.
On the other hand, the term Organisational Culture refers to how those behaviours, beliefs and attitudes deal with the dayly interaction of employees and the dayly interaction of employees with the environment (the organisation itself), therefore, the organisational culture is related to the mission and objectives within the organisation and strives to facilitate both the fullfillment of the objectives and the relationship among employees. Simply put, organisational culture is generally used as a way of leading an organisation to achieve its goals by sharing those values, beliefs and behaviuors with the employees stablishing an indentity process with the organisation.
On the other hand, the term Organisational Culture refers to how those behaviours, beliefs and attitudes deal with the dayly interaction of employees and the dayly interaction of employees with the environment (the organisation itself), therefore, the organisational culture is related to the mission and objectives within the organisation and strives to facilitate both the fullfillment of the objectives and the relationship among employees. Simply put, organisational culture is generally used as a way of leading an organisation to achieve its goals by sharing those values, beliefs and behaviuors with the employees stablishing an indentity process with the organisation.
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