Understanding Lima…
diciembre 5, 2007
I am not living in Lima since 2005 and I had gone there two times since then, a good average to be in a city that had seen me to grow, the fact of had grown in a big city is interesting because It make your beginning and your end to know about the future cities you are going to visit.
Lima is so different in a lot of levels, it has a social contrast high but not high as other latinoamerican´s cities as Mexico Df or Sao Paulo, this social unbalance is given because of the racism and pseudo superiority of rich people against the poors. This complex society pyramid is common in LatinAmerica but with their own particularities in Lima, since my perspective.
I start with the education I had received, because in this aspect I had learn the two faces of Lima, the one bossy and the other popular, starting in the fact that I had lived in the same neighborhood for 23 years, I had seen how it had changed, changing the land lords, the people and so on, basiclly because of the emergentic social grown. Then in my school time I was in a catholic school (an historic school, with a lot of famous politician in their resume), this was a time when my bubble was consolidated as the main piece of my life, I guess is really difficult to find a good non catholic school in Lima, because of the social hipocresy that reign in the peruvian society but I won´t write about it this time.
Then in the college time I could see really the complex variety of people around my same city but I could not know before of my social bubble, with college I had a lot of works in different neighborhoods of Lima, some wealthy and some poor, this is the biggest thing about my university, because of the knowledge I had receive about people in my country.
Any person that is not from Lima as a common tourist in anywhere in the world, can´t see really this differences about Lima, in some way I think, we had lost the capacity to feel that we are a team and we had sectorized our activities, our friends and life to put them in an unbreakable bubble that sepparate our world. My main thought about this reflection about this is that there is not big deal to change the city, change the rules or anything, just ourselfs, because that´s who we are really.
