New Zealand

A cultural element that called my attention from New Zealand is how they respect each other and the maoris, it is impressive how two cultures live together and accept each other, because Chile, unlike New Zealand doesn’t respect the other cultures that live in our national territory. They even recognize Maori as an official language from New Zealand. Also through their history they have even had agreements.

That is one of the main differences, the acceptance and convivence of both cultures in their territory, small details like things written in both Maori and English make a difference.

Another difference between Chile and New Zealand is how clean their cities are, and how they take care of their environment, if you walk in Wellington you won’t see anything written on the walls, no rubbish on the streets, everything is clean. Also their green areas are clean and they take care of them.

A similarity between both Chilean and NZ’s culture is that both descend from aboriginal cultures, like the Maori, Mapuche, etc. The difference in that is how they respect them and we don’t.

What is it to be a New Zealander?

Being a New Zealander has both similarities and differences with being a Chilean. Being a New Zealander implies being kind and generous, even in small details of daily life like cars stopping to let people go across the street, or saying hello when you walk next to them even if they don’t know you.

New Zealand’s society has more than one culture (multiculturall), there are maoris, Asians, pacific islanders, people from european descendence, etc. And they all live together without any kind of discrimination for their skin colour, appearance, etc.

One aspect of New Zealand’s daily life is their way of eating, at breakfast they usually have cereal, toasts, similar to Chile, at lunch they eat a sandwich or something like that, not too much. Dinner time is special to them, they eat a lot, like a Chilean lunch, this is special because it is a moment when they can share a moment with their families and talk about their day, etc.

New Zealand is also a safe place, people who live in here don’t usually steal or do anything that is against the law, it is weird to see that, it is a peaceful place of the world, you could even leave your phone charging in the subway, then go somewhere else and when you come back your phone will still be there (we know that wouldn’t happen in Chile).

In New Zealand they also take care of their cities and green areas, if you walk in Wellington it is really weird to see trash or anything written in the walls, it is a really clean place.

To sum up, people in New Zealand are really kind and nice, they take care of the place and respect each other.

P.82 Activity 3.7

Text in pages 84-86

Make it plausible: He makes the speech plausible by sharing his personal experiences with the audience so it seems he is an expert in the topic. Also the fact that he compares it with his movies makes it more credible.

Be knowledgeable: pending

Keep it relevant to the Anglophone culture: pending

Know the right conventions for the text type: It seemed he was familiar with the text type, he probably researched about Michael Moore and he probably read other speeches before writing this one.

Blog Assignment (April 17th - April 24th)

1.- Which one is the technique you consider more effective?
A: I think bandwagon might be one of the most effective techniques because nowadays people "follow the crowd", they do what everyone else is doing. Bandwagon consists in showing that everybody is doing something, so you should do it too, or they tell you everyone has a (insert object here), so you should buy a (insert the same object here) too because everybody else around you has one. Basically they try to convince you by someone's or something's popularity.

2.- Which one is the technique that you consider less efective?
A: The technique I consider less efective is "Testimonial", this technique uses a famous person to try to make you buy something, basically they are saying "If you want to be like this famous person, then buy this" this is used when they are talking about a product, i.e. clothes. I think this is not the most effective technique, since it doesn't really persuade you because of the product's quality, they are mainly telling you that a famous person uses it, so not everyone would be convinced by it. That's the reason why people should consider the purpose and quality of the item apart from the person giving the testimonial

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