tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71128333641225261532024-02-01T22:19:14.301-08:00Ecuadorians Inferiority complex: Facts and Analysis.TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-34084469270003023102010-05-25T09:26:00.001-07:002010-05-25T09:30:15.191-07:00Ecuadorian Inferiority Complex and Identity Crisis<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBvl0Y5XrVMPCsLwnPl-tgE3QeFsjD2oXU1bcujwzHpJw_V0ueU30_FVUdLfEMzXyFP8ib1bXJQL2HgWbFV9sxtllHeVxZ6VKw5JOClzs9g7RUByDRabz2yPjrn9lry9JYWBCzc0K97tA/s1600/ponce2.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBvl0Y5XrVMPCsLwnPl-tgE3QeFsjD2oXU1bcujwzHpJw_V0ueU30_FVUdLfEMzXyFP8ib1bXJQL2HgWbFV9sxtllHeVxZ6VKw5JOClzs9g7RUByDRabz2yPjrn9lry9JYWBCzc0K97tA/s400/ponce2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475245733918979042" /></a><br />Soon Available on video, stay tuned for updates...TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-31551584501275189342010-01-07T09:03:00.005-08:002012-03-24T16:18:07.388-07:00Ecuadorian inferiority complex: Facts & analysis<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i> <span style="text-align: left;">To understand the inferiority complex of Ecuadorian Community in USA and all over the world, let's go trough history to the roots of "el mestizos" witch is the ethnological definition of Ecuadorians and all Hispanics, as a result of the multi level cross breed between Native Americans and Europeans, Since the discovery of the "New World" Until the vague immigration of Ecuadorians aka "los mestizos " to the European conquerors descendants's land (USA and Europe)...</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: left;"><i>Ecuadorians are Unique in the sense that Native Ecuadorians are special savage tribe who been completely isolated from the modern world until the recent decades, forced contact with westerner caused the savage murder of explorers. </i></span></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Posts go in the Chronological order of the events, since the Discovery of the American Continent...scroll down the posts to go trough History and discover Ecuadorians inferiority Complex roots...</span> <span style="text-align: left;"> </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>Bon Voyage.</b></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><b>Mr. Core</b></i></div></div><div class="zemanta-pixie" style="height: 15px; margin-top: 10px;"><a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://www.zemanta.com/" title="Enhanced by Zemanta"><img alt="Enhanced by Zemanta" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_e.png?x-id=808240eb-f0ba-43f1-bc8b-247e117e053b" style="border: none; float: right;" /></a></div>TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-25255503445382238142010-01-07T09:03:00.001-08:002010-01-10T15:18:24.173-08:00Native americans(Indigenous peoples)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtfetf-WiLHJQILMIa0VhhUPfCEXeYocd4Y6XI8fDUecLArqrMBkB9NOtiprK188SG0r9vKV1GuUnfI5CQ6PrRS7C9XQMMRf7Gw6_BAGg4cPPg40XH6WPZiqCBqsyGS_L0lmt0R1339N0/s1600-h/330px-Amerikanska_folk,_Nordisk_familjebok.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 330px; height: 254px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtfetf-WiLHJQILMIa0VhhUPfCEXeYocd4Y6XI8fDUecLArqrMBkB9NOtiprK188SG0r9vKV1GuUnfI5CQ6PrRS7C9XQMMRf7Gw6_BAGg4cPPg40XH6WPZiqCBqsyGS_L0lmt0R1339N0/s400/330px-Amerikanska_folk,_Nordisk_familjebok.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425254321026878194" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Native Americans (also Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, American Indians, Amerindians, Amerind, Indians, First Nations, First Peoples, Native Canadians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are those peoples indigenous to the Americas, living there prior to European colonization. This term encompasses a large number of distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of them still enduring as political communities.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Indigenous peoples of the American continents are broadly recognized as being those groups and their descendants who inhabited the region before the arrival of European colonizers and settlers .</span></span></div><div><br /></div>TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-37163468611558802442010-01-07T09:02:00.000-08:002010-01-10T15:24:54.163-08:00Discovery of the new world:<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6rsr2X93dZrgXJbJLKkRTjddRwYuPWLrYkOkpCRHg-koe5W51w9l1tXUzUhBZoClP06Bu5AJdAWfwELE7ut7JKD2A2NfKWGk-nMtnWJ02zbUtDCPrrortY6_GpG7K39XGLKc1OEPjlLs/s1600-h/Casas-1A.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 375px; height: 315px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6rsr2X93dZrgXJbJLKkRTjddRwYuPWLrYkOkpCRHg-koe5W51w9l1tXUzUhBZoClP06Bu5AJdAWfwELE7ut7JKD2A2NfKWGk-nMtnWJ02zbUtDCPrrortY6_GpG7K39XGLKc1OEPjlLs/s400/Casas-1A.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425256107727879394" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Ever since the discovery of the New World the indigenous peoples have been treated not only unfairly, but also unrealistically pigeonholed into stereotypes. The early explorers, historians, nineteenth century dime novels and twentieth century western movies have contributed immensely to the stereotypical images of the American Indians. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Naturally, Native American women were no exceptions, they were stereotyped and misconceptualised. They have either been presented as primitive pagans or romanticised and mythified. On the one hand, the stereotypical Squaw image constituted the inferior, subservient, meek, lazy, wild and lustful woman. On the other hand, the stereotypical Princess was the guide, protector, helper, comforter, lover and rescuer of the white man. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">They got pwned by Columbusduring the colonization of America, and their spirits have been crushed ever since. Native Americans are relatively untrollable due to widespread depression about their decimation. </span></div><div><br /></div>TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-44767192948756610242010-01-07T09:01:00.000-08:002010-01-10T16:00:47.291-08:00Extermination of el Mestizos ancestors..<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmkl1UP8QN-dUfceppqbgVsQ5hK6kbU0S94yKXUe8_AIsRSXcbTOLOZC5GDVIqzL_hq1pcmCrzUmC0E2Bv1HzVSTU9aqDwAvyiqgUeXzpqpMmgRAZsQnpGbKtz5vgx7XoOAwYm0rjd2AI/s1600-h/Genocide.sized.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 392px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmkl1UP8QN-dUfceppqbgVsQ5hK6kbU0S94yKXUe8_AIsRSXcbTOLOZC5GDVIqzL_hq1pcmCrzUmC0E2Bv1HzVSTU9aqDwAvyiqgUeXzpqpMmgRAZsQnpGbKtz5vgx7XoOAwYm0rjd2AI/s400/Genocide.sized.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425265315041475026" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">The enslavement, torture, murder, and extermination of the native people of the West Indies followed quickly on the heels of Columbus and his men. It was obvious from Columbus’s journal that the Native americans were not as used to battle and warfare as the Spaniards. Columbus notes that “with 50 men you could subject everyone and make them do what you wished” and that the natives were “such cowards and so fearful” that they were, therefore, easy to rule. This idea was carried back to Europe, setting the tone for the relationship between the natives and the European explorers.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">The destruction of the Indians of the Americas was, far and away, the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">By then [1891] the native population had been reduced to 2.5% of its original numbers and 97.5% of the aboriginal land base had been expropriated....Hundreds upon hundreds of native tribes with unique languages, learning, customs, and cultures had simply been erased from the face of the earth, most often without even the pretense of justice or law. </span></div><div><br /></div>TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-50107716694455650882010-01-07T09:00:00.000-08:002010-01-10T16:06:47.288-08:00Europeans once ruled over 100 million Natives throughout the Americas.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0WA_145ZAPIwtsN0MarR4cNeoUNCf4Tpbhyphenhyphen8qL9ILfJfHqIWAfkVn7Qj5HPG5RkYcY549RsMgi_MHBCGKez1PstIRofezjAy7IJL3-r30CosE9MUhajxYHEaG9v2xjzr6Nq4Zw0V8ljg/s1600-h/Sand_Creek.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 369px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0WA_145ZAPIwtsN0MarR4cNeoUNCf4Tpbhyphenhyphen8qL9ILfJfHqIWAfkVn7Qj5HPG5RkYcY549RsMgi_MHBCGKez1PstIRofezjAy7IJL3-r30CosE9MUhajxYHEaG9v2xjzr6Nq4Zw0V8ljg/s400/Sand_Creek.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425266866653830066" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">European extermination of Natives started with Christopher Columbus' arrival in San Salvador in 1492. Native population dropped dramatically over the next few decades. Some were directly murdered by Europeans. Others died indirectly as a result of contact with introduced diseases for which they had no resistance -- mainly smallpox, influenza, and measles.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Later European Christian invaders systematically murdered additional Aboriginal people, from the Canadian Arctic to South America. They used warfare, death marches, forced relocation to barren lands, destruction of their main food supply -- the Buffalo -- and poisoning. Some Europeans actually shot at Indians for target practice.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Oppression continued into the 20th century, through actions by governments and religious organizations which systematically destroyed Native culture and religious heritage. One present-day byproduct of this oppression is suicide. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">The genocide against American Natives was one of the most massive, and longest lasting genocidal campaigns in human history. It started, like all genocides, with the oppressor treating the victims as sub-humans. It continued until almost all Natives were wiped of the face of the earth, along with much of their language, culture and religion. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A Spanish missionary, Bartolome de las Casas, described eye-witness accounts of mass murder, torture and rape. Author Barry Lopez, summarizing Las Casas' report wrote:</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">"One day, in front of Las Casas, the Spanish dismembered, beheaded, or raped 3000 people. 'Such inhumanities and barbarisms were committed in my sight,' he says, 'as no age can parallel....' The Spanish cut off the legs of children who ran from them. They poured people full of boiling soap. They made bets as to who, with one sweep of his sword, could cut a person in half. They loosed dogs that 'devoured an Indian like a hog, at first sight, in less than a moment.' They used nursing infants for dog food."</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Hundreds of Indians were killed in skirmish after skirmish. Other hundreds were killed in successful plots of mass poisoning. They were hunted down by dogs, 'blood-Hounds to draw after them, and Mastives [mastiffs] to seize them.' Their canoes and fishing weirs were smashed, their villages and agricultural fields burned to the ground. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><br /></div>TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-59662236583699130042010-01-07T08:59:00.002-08:002010-01-10T16:16:41.661-08:00History of Ecuador<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEqHgSP35TezQspDU7Rr1JB5Ba4cByXvJWLxu-2ed57y_NtIJFkV_mmFvdSXAgfBJ3jh1zGUyStIce0c-n_DzuP0spdDiRNg4aOXPVX9rSO-AsVsTCb5KjwdkCm0lNXVzJ0zBoyYCTZWE/s1600-h/mestizos.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEqHgSP35TezQspDU7Rr1JB5Ba4cByXvJWLxu-2ed57y_NtIJFkV_mmFvdSXAgfBJ3jh1zGUyStIce0c-n_DzuP0spdDiRNg4aOXPVX9rSO-AsVsTCb5KjwdkCm0lNXVzJ0zBoyYCTZWE/s400/mestizos.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425269468549524066" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Ecuador is the second smallest country in South America, quite densely populated</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">with 13.4 million inhabitants, and divided into three mainland regions by the geographic</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">barrier of the Andes Mountains with the addition of the Galapagos Islands as the fourth</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">region. The coast (Costa) is the largest and most populated area followed by the</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">highlands (Sierra) where the capital, Quito, is located, and also the city of Cuenca, capital</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">of the province of Azuay. The Amazon region (Oriente) is largely underdeveloped and</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">much less populated but is the largest territory and produces the oil that is Ecuador’s</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">main export.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">what’s really fascinating about Ecuador’s history is its indigenous past, which is present and palpable throughout the country today. Ecuador has both a large indigenous population and a large mestizo population. The great majority of the country’s indigenous peoples live in the highlands and the Oriente. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Ecuador's population is ethnically diverse. The largest ethnic group (as of 2007) is the Mestizos, who are the mixed descendants of Spanish colonists and indigenous Indians and who constitute 65% of the population. Amerindians account for 25% of the current population. The small minority of whites, mainly criollos, the unmixed descendants of early Spanish colonists, as well as immigrants from other European countries, account for about 7% of the population. Afro-Ecuadorian also a minority, including Mulattos and zambos, largely based in Esmeraldas and Imbabura provinces, make up 3% of the population. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><br /></div>TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-45814926690975506552010-01-07T08:59:00.001-08:002010-01-10T16:21:21.845-08:00How Did Native Ecuadorians Respond to Christianity?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIWXZqEtTPFwTH6kJA5KBsAWg6NtLj_nehQnil-RKQK8y8IFFEMDFg-lKNsikEFR4Yx4Mo8eWYinn8oWQReio52oVUk1mC-0JOE5mxAQeVJQLTov6BkWeH4080GnBzfdr2exAmGlhUhbc/s1600-h/Women+at+Globe.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIWXZqEtTPFwTH6kJA5KBsAWg6NtLj_nehQnil-RKQK8y8IFFEMDFg-lKNsikEFR4Yx4Mo8eWYinn8oWQReio52oVUk1mC-0JOE5mxAQeVJQLTov6BkWeH4080GnBzfdr2exAmGlhUhbc/s400/Women+at+Globe.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425270509621140738" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">An enterprising European official sailed to the Central American mainland in 1514. He hoped to settle large numbers of Spaniards there, to find gold, and to convert natives. He and his men adopted a simple approach.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> They traveled by night, stopping at midnight outside a chosen village. Before they entered, they declared loudly: "Princes and Indians, there is one God, one pope, and one king of</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Castile, who is lord of this country. Come at once and render</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">him obedience, or we will make war on you, kill you, and put you</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">into slavery."</span></span></div>TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-18179495258253245372010-01-07T08:58:00.001-08:002010-01-10T17:01:39.650-08:00Religion in Ecuador<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb40kCl82nLOvkOYPl1m7sTsHmqQ-ZGZTfWEScLKbXZ9WM_47kHlzL2_nhUNI9_PEpCWT0UfU8KcFuj4UE7jyxO1NBJZEiYIFA6nr6IhCkhb1fT-4MHiMfApoFthnGl-FGLXIBpXv0Z14/s1600-h/3259032-Going-whole-hog-in-celebrating-Christmas-0.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb40kCl82nLOvkOYPl1m7sTsHmqQ-ZGZTfWEScLKbXZ9WM_47kHlzL2_nhUNI9_PEpCWT0UfU8KcFuj4UE7jyxO1NBJZEiYIFA6nr6IhCkhb1fT-4MHiMfApoFthnGl-FGLXIBpXv0Z14/s400/3259032-Going-whole-hog-in-celebrating-Christmas-0.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425281101435965314" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Approximately 95% of Ecuadorians are Roman Catholic, and 4% are Protestants. In the rural parts of Ecuador, indigenous beliefs and Catholicism are sometimes syncretized. Most festivals and annual parades are based on religious celebrations, many incorporating a mixture of rites and icons.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">With the Conquerors came the venerable (or ominous, depending on your point of view) "guns, germs and steel" and the Abrahamic desert religions, both of which were instrumental in the subjugation of the local people. Almost immediately after their arrival, the mixing of "white" blood and indigenous blood began. Today, "pure blooded" Euro-Americans, a distinct minority in Ecuador, wield an inordinate amount of the economic power. Mestizos (people of mixed blood), who come in every shape, size and color, are the majority of the Ecuadorian population and hence hold the political power. Mestizos also form Ecuador's vast "middle class." </span></span></div><div><br /></div>TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-88469359564876446852010-01-07T08:57:00.000-08:002010-01-10T16:59:18.749-08:00Los Mestizos....<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK6ST1UPMMtZS_SuDV8vakRzyZGxNiCDv_E29Oi-qRhe4LXyvUsPi4gj_H2QeCHMD8s-XU3ZTv-eHSz7Yfvei0lZ6a1D3Eoq0UJY4eJbGb9i58zqTYMyhNc8D8TquVs0HLYvz4rSduHrM/s1600-h/890.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK6ST1UPMMtZS_SuDV8vakRzyZGxNiCDv_E29Oi-qRhe4LXyvUsPi4gj_H2QeCHMD8s-XU3ZTv-eHSz7Yfvei0lZ6a1D3Eoq0UJY4eJbGb9i58zqTYMyhNc8D8TquVs0HLYvz4rSduHrM/s400/890.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425280391846108226" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">By any standards, Ecuador is considered ethnically diverse. The breakdown of the population is as follows: mestizo(mixed blood, 65%), Amerindians (25%), Euro-Americans (6%), Afro-Americans (3%), and Oriental (1%). Further, Ecuador's Amerindians are divided into 12 distinct indigenous nationalities. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Los mestizos</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">any person of mixed blood. In Central and South America it denotes a person of combined Indian and European extraction. In Ecuador—it has acquired social and cultural connotations; a pure-blooded Indian who has adopted European dress and customs is called a mestizo (or cholo). </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">As Catholicism and Western lifestyles have become more common in Ecuador, indigenous views and lifestyles have not only become less common, but are seen asinferior. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">..groups of Ecuador include a number of Indian-language-speaking populations (often referred to as indigenous peoples or Amerindians) and highland and lowland Spanish-speaking mestizos (people of mixed Indian and European descent). Ethnicity in Ecuador is often a matter of self-identification. Most Ecuadorans consider themselves mestizo and tend to identify with their... </span></span></div><div><br /></div>TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-49096378912126473082010-01-07T08:55:00.002-08:002010-01-10T17:06:14.372-08:00Ethnic groups in Ecuador<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHLbAc5nqsDDp2vr2mC0qjeo66Emnw2dWjA_H9pKWSfbrESt2WVujTE7bMYJ0BKfuEOjM5PGMFSK70qE23BniL8crWCgukIa6QMJHzHDAxxF0Ozt7ikDWjAr4V4F_AwGL6Fw8oQ4fZmRo/s1600-h/015.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 326px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHLbAc5nqsDDp2vr2mC0qjeo66Emnw2dWjA_H9pKWSfbrESt2WVujTE7bMYJ0BKfuEOjM5PGMFSK70qE23BniL8crWCgukIa6QMJHzHDAxxF0Ozt7ikDWjAr4V4F_AwGL6Fw8oQ4fZmRo/s400/015.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425281946720005378" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">The main ethnic groups of Ecuador include a number of Indian-language-speaking populations (often referred to as indigenous peoples or Amerindians) and highland and lowland Spanish-speaking mestizos(people of mixed Indian and European descent). Ethnicity in Ecuador is often a matter of self-identification. Most Ecuadorans consider themselves mestizo and tend to identify with their region of birth; the mestizo culture is highly regionalized. In the highlands, residents of Carchi (in the far north) and Azuay and Loja (in the south) have developed especially strong regional identities. An individual of Indian descent who has adopted European dress and customs can be classified as a mestizo or cholo (mestizo-Indian). There are also some Ecuadorans who speak only Spanish but consider themselves Indians. These include individuals living in traditionally indigenous districts in the Sierra and children of migrants to the city or the coast. Many people living close to the Pacific coast on or near the Santa Elena Peninsula no longer speak an indigenous language but still exhibit traces of indigenous customs and identity. Descendants of Africans and more-recent immigrants from a variety of foreign countries, including Lebanon, China, Korea, Japan, Italy, and Germany, make up the remainder of the population. Most modern censuses have not inquired about ethnicity, language, religion, or origin, so the numbers of different groups are not precisely known</span></div><div><br /></div>TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-71970436787207876342010-01-07T08:55:00.001-08:002010-01-10T17:09:47.849-08:00Huaorani (Aucas):Ecuador's Secret People<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBorsG5dcR0iFcSAELFJtM8J_laxFzfarLiWwYzioGSvWBsXduU2jd_KG3O2DMZqiYiAj2_JsikNcu-rPsdvifIgQmUra2QQTPND3b4mYwjwcrApYE9dAcsqLUfrdqitRx9z8Z-f7Nl38/s1600-h/AW_Waorani124.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 390px; height: 264px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBorsG5dcR0iFcSAELFJtM8J_laxFzfarLiWwYzioGSvWBsXduU2jd_KG3O2DMZqiYiAj2_JsikNcu-rPsdvifIgQmUra2QQTPND3b4mYwjwcrApYE9dAcsqLUfrdqitRx9z8Z-f7Nl38/s400/AW_Waorani124.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425283096644702450" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"> </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">The Huaorani, Waorani or Waodani, also known as the Waos, are native Amerindians from the Amazonian Region of Ecuador (in the Oriente region) with some marked differences from the others ethnic groups from Ecuador. (The alternate name Auca is pejorative, given by the neighboring Quechua Indians and commonly used by Spanish-speakers as well. Auca – awqa in Quechua – means "enemy".) They comprise almost 4,000 inhabitants and speak the Huaorani language, a linguistic isolate i.e. unrelated to any other language. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">They revere the jaguar and call themselves, Huaorani which means "human beings" or "the people," and refer to everyone else as cowode or "non-humans."</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">Huaorani culture and society is shaped by their will to self-isolation. Very little is known about their past, except that they have for centuries constituted nomadic and autarkic enclaves fiercely refusing contact, trade and exchange with their powerful neighbours, be they indigenous or white-mestizo colonists. Ever since their tragic encounter with North American missionaries in 1956, the Huaorani have held a special place in journalistic and popular imagination as "Ecuador's last savages".</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">Indeed, there is much about their life-style that would invite the label. They have no writing, no reason to count higher than 10 and no history other than a tribal recollection that their ancestors came from "downriver; long ago". They roam naked in the jungle, hunting monkeys and birds with wooden blowguns and curare-tipped darts; for pigs they use spears. They also Use spears to deal with the incapable elderly, and unwanted babies are strangled with vines, burnt or buried alive. And by and large their contacts with the Quechua or any other outsiders have not been notably peaceable. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"> Despite the "civilizing" efforts of missionaries, they have largely retained their distinctive way of understanding the world. Relations with outsiders, seen as murderous enemies, are fraught with hostility and fear; there seems to be little space for communication and exchange, other than complete avoidance or the threat to 'spear-kill' .</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><br /></div>TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-30198105887329300972010-01-07T08:52:00.002-08:002010-01-10T17:55:54.472-08:00Cannibalism in Ecuador.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwqCZy0PxG4k_g_skN80V5pyrUc-NEqlR0UonUy4wZNhTvhDjhqjvbXqc1JePH_ZO0apmt6AwIdASJLAsgIVDUWsikuWfixXflPvIY9OEApVGglQ4E2pykkEYU1Cw8u3vT-d2YTQk4IOA/s1600-h/cannibalismart.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 295px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwqCZy0PxG4k_g_skN80V5pyrUc-NEqlR0UonUy4wZNhTvhDjhqjvbXqc1JePH_ZO0apmt6AwIdASJLAsgIVDUWsikuWfixXflPvIY9OEApVGglQ4E2pykkEYU1Cw8u3vT-d2YTQk4IOA/s400/cannibalismart.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425295085137599186" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">The Huoarani tribe in Ecuador that represent the Ecuadorians mestizos natives roots is canibalistic. The Huoarani tribe is the tribe that killed Jim Elliot and several others while in his missionary trips to the tribe in 1956. It's the only tribe on earth that is still canibalistic it's also known as the Aucas. Those tribes represent the “wild” Mestizos to the opposite of the already domesticated or civilized ones who inhabit urban areas.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">"Men, women and children all go for the huge pots - gigantic vessels and uninhibitedly fish out bones and pieces of meat with their hands. Steam rises from the pots and disappears seconds later in the roof made out of leaves. There's a strange, yes almost eerie atmosphere in the hut. The Indians are slurping and smacking, and shamelessly giving free rein to their excess gastric pressure; they lick their hands up to their elbows, only to instantly return to dip them into the hot brew. The result is a unique and almost savage mixture of noises. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Approximately 96.4% of Ecuador's are Highland Quichuas living in the valleys of the Sierra region. Primarily consisting of the descendents of Incans, they are Kichwa speakers and include the Caranqui, the Otavaleños, the Cayambi, the Quitu-Caras, the Panzaleo, the Chimbuelo, theSalasacan, the Tugua, the Puruhá, the Cañari, and the Saraguro. Linguistic evidence suggests that the Salascan and the Saraguro may have been the descendants of Bolivian ethnic groups transplanted to Ecuador as mitimaes.</span></span></div><div><br /></div>TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-810375463622206262010-01-07T08:52:00.001-08:002010-01-07T08:52:39.302-08:00Ecuador - Indigenous Flags<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU28KoQocG0P5nDDV_C7J6amgDhphp8FbF0oqw2FiQmHFDj2X7oAjWGiorNH58BqVa7mMfBWx4puskIobIaqPF_GahDpwWyZVdx6Bp-c8KUxby54N-pQa2kr1X6Pwdtr_QEe9osXNJQ90/s1600-h/ec%7Daind1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 113px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU28KoQocG0P5nDDV_C7J6amgDhphp8FbF0oqw2FiQmHFDj2X7oAjWGiorNH58BqVa7mMfBWx4puskIobIaqPF_GahDpwWyZVdx6Bp-c8KUxby54N-pQa2kr1X6Pwdtr_QEe9osXNJQ90/s400/ec%7Daind1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424041844142095378" /></a>TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-76074927558533414972010-01-07T08:51:00.001-08:002010-01-07T08:51:55.315-08:00Operation Auca<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;">Operation Auca was an attempt by five Evangelical Christian missionariesfrom the United States to make contact with the Huaorani people of therainforest of Ecuador. The Huaorani, also known by the pejorative Aucas (a modification of awqa, the Quechua word for "enemies"), were an isolated tribe known for their violence, against both their own people and outsiders who entered their territory. With the intention of being the first Christians toevangelize the previously unreached Huaorani, the missionaries began making regular flights over Huaorani settlements in September 1955, dropping gifts. After several months of exchanging gifts, on January 3, 1956 the missionaries established a camp at "Palm Beach", a sandbar along the Curaray River, a few miles from Huaorani settlements. Their efforts came to an end on January 8, 1956, when all five—Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Ed McCully, Peter Fleming, andRoger Youderian—were attacked and speared by a group of Huaorani warriors. The news of their deaths was broadcast around the world, and Life magazine covered the event with a photo essay. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;">Americans brutally attacked in Ecuador, officials say</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;">An extended trip to Ecuador by two Americans changed from a dream to a nightmare after a brutal attack last week, according the couple's blog and U.S. officials.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;">State Department spokesman Robert Wood confirmed Tuesday that the U.S. Embassy in Ecuador had been told that two Americans from Bend, Oregon, were attacked in the city of Esmeraldas, on Ecuador's northern coast. But he said he could provide no further information because of privacy laws.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#660000;">Two State Department officials, however, said that the man was stabbed more than 24 times and that his fiancée was beaten and raped.</span></span></div><div><br /></div>TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-59701827871235554272010-01-07T08:50:00.002-08:002010-01-07T08:51:13.708-08:00THE WORST PEOPLE ON EARTH<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"> </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">Time magazine called the Aucas “the worst people on earth”.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">They were, the magazine said, “A pure Stone Age people, they hate all strangers, live only to hunt, fight and kill. Their most notable products are needle-sharp, 9-foot, hardwood spears for use against human foes. . . . Even their neighbors, the Jivaros, famous for shrinking human heads, live in constant fear of the fierce Aucas”.</span></span></span></div><div><br /></div>TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-62021534698337077602010-01-07T08:50:00.001-08:002010-01-07T08:50:35.897-08:00MEET A TRIBE OF JIVARO INDIANS<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">The Aucas and Aguarunas are blood kin. They are both Jivaros. They were both headhunters The Aguarunas would kill as quick as those Aucas killed those five missionaries in Ecuador. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Most men have more than one wife – sometimes as many as six or eight. The father lives in a large thatched roof house that looks to be about 30 feet wide and 60 feet long. The roof, made of palm leaves, reaches nearly to the ground to keep the rain from blowing in. The entrance is at either end. The doorway is only about four feet high. The opening has a board across the bottom to keep the pigs out. It is difficult for a six-foot gringo to get into one of their houses. You had better be certain you are welcome before you even attempt to enter. The Aguarunas don’t take to strangers. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> At the foot of every bed is a fire for cooking. They place three logs end to end and where the logs meet they build their fire. To cool the fire down they pull the logs apart. To get more heat they push them together. Those fires never go out. There is no chimney. The house is filled with the smoke of 20 fires. You are aware of the darkness when you enter the low narrow doorway. It is not just the darkness of the black, smoke charred roof. It is an evil darkness. An Indian man never turns his back to anyone. They stand with their backs to the wall. They will not allow even their own brother to walk behind them. That is the evil darkness of heathenism. You sense the foreboding spirit in the way they treat their children. I have never seen a man pick up a little child and put her on his knee and tell me this is my daughter or granddaughter. I have seen a father kick a little child across the room as if she were a soccer ball. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Headhunting and head shrinking is a common practice. It not unusual to find a shrunken head in the home of a Jivaro Indian. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Their marriage customs were a cause of many killings. Before an Aguaruna girl is three years old she is already married and living with her husband. Yes, three years old. An Aguaruna man is supposed to marry a specific girl. He must marry the daughter of his father’s sister. A man who has seven or eight wives will soon have 40 or 50 babies. They don’t want those kids. They are not going to raise them. If the woman cannot abort that pregnancy they will kill many of those babies the day they are born. </span></span></div><div><br /></div>TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-87397860943416816482010-01-07T08:49:00.001-08:002010-01-07T08:49:48.049-08:00Ecuador: Rumbles in the jungle<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjkUu2ikzJ9xIJvXnhfJ2wlcrVVaCwoSG8UH1iH__okABAG8IsW7vZUa1umVm-bPE3H2rwIcLtRi675DyMVe-sBsbWp8sIBEC3iH5SvuwXu-ATcdXn18Nb2Vvgw-KLknQZ6V7H1kejFZE/s1600-h/015.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 326px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjkUu2ikzJ9xIJvXnhfJ2wlcrVVaCwoSG8UH1iH__okABAG8IsW7vZUa1umVm-bPE3H2rwIcLtRi675DyMVe-sBsbWp8sIBEC3iH5SvuwXu-ATcdXn18Nb2Vvgw-KLknQZ6V7H1kejFZE/s400/015.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424041104776215042" /></a>TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-5547284140447417272010-01-07T08:48:00.001-08:002010-01-07T08:48:57.108-08:00Homosexuality Among Native Americans:The two spirit.<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;">Definition: is a Term coined in the early 1990's by Native Americans during an LGBT gathering in Winnipeg. This modern term is used by many LGBT Native Americans to depict the dynamic balance of masculine and feminine energies within them. </span></span></span></div><div><br /></div>TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-10236869934860686122010-01-07T08:46:00.004-08:002012-03-24T16:21:39.380-07:00Burned alive for being a thief<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUCciC1CeIFZCdV_qYPgEfBKSjU8CxXRiiq8xjLnQyl0zrkZcZKJ5-XACxcwh4NdIZ75RFyYkuFCbuNZv_O1NwNPK2UfSrh_UXb_EftxhtokItKtdGeNIR8g3ZWMZs-x5x1zShice-HtE/s1600-h/burningman_468x625.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424040680411999746" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUCciC1CeIFZCdV_qYPgEfBKSjU8CxXRiiq8xjLnQyl0zrkZcZKJ5-XACxcwh4NdIZ75RFyYkuFCbuNZv_O1NwNPK2UfSrh_UXb_EftxhtokItKtdGeNIR8g3ZWMZs-x5x1zShice-HtE/s640/burningman_468x625.jpg" style="height: 400px; width: 300px;" width="480" /></a></div>TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-17842869224347780812010-01-07T08:46:00.001-08:002010-01-07T09:20:32.619-08:00Homosexuality in Ecuador : A life style :<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmWJjbuHTVDAD07KADPNbX5FO77nqYiHnTFu4zg7IBqwx5KHntIK9lctVeRojsedIffmbJcav2Te-iVEKpPi_aNugY5mt3hmMdVjJcweiBpZw4u5_amnYt-0w35v6NvwIVvtb-4MPb28c/s1600-h/ecuador+new+year.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmWJjbuHTVDAD07KADPNbX5FO77nqYiHnTFu4zg7IBqwx5KHntIK9lctVeRojsedIffmbJcav2Te-iVEKpPi_aNugY5mt3hmMdVjJcweiBpZw4u5_amnYt-0w35v6NvwIVvtb-4MPb28c/s400/ecuador+new+year.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424049023619802690" /></a><br /><div>In 1998 Ecuador became the first country in the Americas to adopt constitutional language granting protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation. </div><div>Pics of gays cross.</div>TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-42068219223815619712010-01-07T08:45:00.001-08:002010-01-07T09:38:18.279-08:00The History and Process of Head-Shrinking<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Although there were many headhunting cultures throughout the world, only one group was known for the ancient practice of shrinking human heads (tsantsa). They were called the Jivaro clan who lived deep in the Ecuadorian, and neighboring Peruvian Amazon. The Jivaros are one of the most primitive societies that have caught the attention of the Western world because of their unusual customs.</span></span></span></div><div><br /></div>TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-5435843471620423892010-01-07T08:44:00.000-08:002010-01-07T08:45:05.532-08:00Safety and Security in Ecuador<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Ecuadorian thieves are opportunists. It’s extremely rare for visitors to be accosted by muggers or someone brandishing a gun or knife. Instead, they wait to catch someone unawares: a purse casually slung over the back of a restaurant chair or an ignored backpack at an internet cafe will quickly disappear. To protect yourself, never leave anything unattended and take extra care in places where careless tourists might leave their things unwatched, like cafes and bars</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">There are several places in Ecuador where pickpockets lurk, such as sporting events, public transportation and markets. The common denominator to all of them is crowds. Pickpockets can only work their trade if you are surrounded by jostling bodies. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">The Girls</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Ecuadorian girls look very indigenous with straight black hair, high cheekbones, thin eyebrows, and small eyes. Their bodies were not blessed with curves, but every city, no matter how small, has at least a few natural beauties. Regardless, this is not a country you should be coming for the girls, as most of them look like pictures of Native Americans in your high school history textbook. In smaller cities, the white man is looked on with an extra dose of curiosity, and his gringo status will attract an occasional prostitute working pseudo-undercover.</span></div><div><br /></div>TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-17667960646000504832010-01-07T08:43:00.001-08:002010-01-07T08:43:55.860-08:00Quito:<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Quito is not your everyday destination. It's edgy, scary and a tiny bit dangerous because of the constant threat of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions (Quito is located at the base of an active volcano). On the other hand, Quito is fresh, exciting, foreign and beautiful, making Quito a perfect junket for the adventurous American tourist. The trick is to see the sites of Quito without getting hurt or robbed. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Remember, Ecuador has a average income of only about $5 per day, and a visit to Quito transports you into a world where you are a relative-multimillionaire, a tycoon with mucho spending power who can live like a King in Quito. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">The Two Prostitutes Of Tena </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Tena is the whitewater capital of Ecuador. Before I bent over some Class IV rapids on the Jondachi River with my monstrous rowing stroke, I studied the townspeople by watching them from a park bench in the central square.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Within half an hour, two random girls sat on my bench even though all the others were empty. The alpha of the pair sat next to me and kept “accidentally” touching my leg and whipping her hair back and forth in dramatic motions. The giveaway was that it was 1PM and they were dressed like they were going to the club.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">A bourgeoisie Frenchman I met told me he doesn’t get involved with locals from countries that are not equal to his own (i.e. Westernized); otherwise the girls are just seeing dollar signs and there is a good chance of getting drugged and / or robbed. I do agree with him, and it’s not a big deal in Ecuador because the girls here are extremely ugly, but it would be a shame if you travel through Brazil or Argentina and resign yourself to only sleeping with other tourists.</span></span></div><div><br /></div>TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7112833364122526153.post-12731609033882215322010-01-07T08:42:00.000-08:002010-01-07T08:43:09.214-08:00Ecuador<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">Ecuador is a constitutional republic with a population of approximately 13 million. In 2002 voters elected Lucio Gutierrez president in generally free and fair elections. In April following large-scale protests in Quito and the public withdrawal of support by the military, Congress voted to remove President Gutierrez. Vice President Alfredo Palacio assumed the presidency to finish Gutierrez's term. Civilian authorities generally maintained effective control of the security forces.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">While the government generally respected the human rights of its citizens, there were serious problems in some areas. The following human rights problems were reported:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">unlawful killings and use of excessive force by security forces</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">torture, abuse, and killing of suspects and prisoners by security forces, often with impunity</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">poor prison conditions</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">arbitrary arrest</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">high number of pretrial detainees</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">corruption and denial of due process within the judicial system</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">attacks on those publicly critical of former President Gutierrez</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">violence against women</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">pervasive discrimination against women, indigenous people, Afro-Ecuadorians, and homosexuals</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">trafficking in persons and sexual exploitation of minors</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">widespread child labor</span></span></div><div><br /></div>TaMerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12696906813841675891noreply@blogger.com0