¿Teen books are still in fashion?

On August 24, 2012, the Cordoba government made a quiz about, how much the teenagers read per a year? The results of this were not so bad. The quiz also revealed other data regarding thematic modules. They asked teenagers about their relationship with the books and the answer was not very encouraging.

From the Cordoba Youth Secretary, it was said that the 70% read. The 44% manifest reading between one and three books per year, and a 27% trust reading more than 3 books per year. In the “reading categories”, the girls go forward from the boys. They read much more than them.

Beside, Argentina is located in the 17 position of the country’s that most read, with a weekly average of 5.9 hours, which positions is on the top of the list in Latin America. But India tops the ranking with 10.7 hours per week. This data comes from the survey and markets media agency NOP World, which established a readers top 20 nations, comprising Thailand, China, Philippines, Egypt, Czech Republic, Russia, Sweden, France, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, Poland , Venezuela, South Africa, Australia, Indonesia, Turkey, Spain and Canada.

According to NOP World, Argentina has 42,610,981 inhabitants who work 5.9 hours to read, its population 15 to 54 years formed 54.6 percent of the total population. In a similar survey which established the 20 countries most "addicted" to internet without working, the agency revealed that Argentina ranks number 15 with 13.694 million network users spend 8.9 hours to navigate.

Actually, More than 12,000 families have committed Cordoba in an educational project to promote reading of their sons and daughters in through new initiative that develops in 167 schools in the province. The purpose of this activity is to encourage students reader dwell beyond the scope participate to school by parents.

The danger of a single story

In the video of “The danger of a single story” we will see a woman call Chimamanda Adichie, from Nigeria, those talks about the danger that have a single story.  In my opinion, she wants to said that the Africa continent have only a single story. What means this? Africa have a single story because always we see in Africa poor people, that can’t work, that live in the street because they don’t have a house, etc. For me all this shows to the rest of the world that Africa it is a poor continent. All this things makes you think that Africa it is a very horrible continent (I won’t like to go to Africa). Also the media it is a very important character in this problem because they show to the world the bad and poor side of Africa. But also the Africa continent has some good things like some resources very important and very valuables. For example, we have the oil that in the actually time it is the most important resource in the entire world, Africa have a country that is in the 3 position in the world that have the most deposit of fresh water, etc.. In conclusion (my opinion) what Chimamanda Adichie want to say is that not one thing can represent all people, a hold country or a hold continent. Because of this thing we see Africa in some way that they are the poor and more horrible continent. Finally she says that little stories can break and change the humanity of a hold city.