Movie "The Corporation"

Question: Do you think corporations are the root cause of the problem, or is it consumerism, capitalism, or all three?

I think that the three are a complement to create the problem: because the corporation by it self don`t have the complete capacity to become in a problem that we are facing today, but when it is linked with the capitalism the intentions of profit increase and some important things as values an culture can be forgotten anymore the role of consumerism as a helper of corporations to create the culture of buy things we don`t need and it help to corporation to increase its profits

For those reasons we can see that sometimes corporation are only acting by the proper benefits, without thinking in the employees, the community, the investment in the social problems, etc and factors as the capitalism and consumerism are helping it to happen, as something normal without considering the damage.

It is also the big importance that is acquiring today the capitalism and the consumerism that are generating the problem, because the corporations are getting more involved in fulfill the needs of a world dominated by capitalist vision no matter what must be made to achieve these objectives, forgetting important bases such as moral, ethics and transparency

Corporate culture and National identity

I can find these relationships between the Corporate Values and the National Identity:

•Both work of a similar way but in different scenarios, national identity can influence citizens of certain country to act of a similar way according to a bunch of values, customs, traditions, etc, and corporate culture can also affect the behavior of certain amount of people that compose a corporation

•Another relationship between both concepts is that Corporate culture can help a corporation to achieve high performance and to do things well and National identity can also help a country to get certain goals and growth because citizens are disposed to give all them effort by the country, and it can be an advantage in comparison with a country with citizens without National identity

•The National Identity of certain country can influence in the way the things are made in a company because the people used to the the things of a similar way, and it will be reflected y the company, because it conform the bases of the company and it will need to be deep related with the projects of the company, because there can not be a clash between the way projects execution is planed and the corporate culture that is already established in the company

DEFINITION OF CULTURE FOUND IN THE WEB:

I`ve found a lot of definitions of culture, but to me the most interesting for me are as follows:

• Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving.


• A culture is a way of life of a group of people--the behaviors, beliefs, values, and symbols that they accept, generally without thinking about them, and that are passed along by communication and imitation from one generation to the next.

http://www.tamu.edu/classes/cosc/choudhury/culture.html

• “Culture is the collective programming of the human mind that distinguishes the members of one human group from those of another. Culture in this sense is a system of collectively held values.” -- Geert Hofstede

• “Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic ‘taken for granted’ fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment.” -- Edgar Schein

http://changingminds.org/explanations/culture/what_is_culture.htm

Definitions of Culture:

For me culture is:

• Is the reunion of customs, beliefs, traditions, food, behaviors, history, living style that is proper of some geographical zone and that change according to the place evaluated

• It´s something that makes different the people according to the culture to which belongs, making everybody different and allowing live in a world diversified by the different cultures that exist in the world

• Is a tool created by men designed to develop a superior race thanks to the use of language, writing, painting, technology, etc. And that tool have being changing with the time according to the needs of men.

WORLD WATER DAY Freshwater Conflict photos

Date of the document: March

Hi!! here is a document published by National Geographic about the world water day, here are some pictures to reconsider the importance of water to the hole world and to change our customs to protect the water

Fertilizer

Factory Waste, China

Photograph by Greg Girard

Discharge from a Chinese fertilizer factory winds its way toward the Yellow River. The Chinese government’s 2010 national pollution census revealed that the nation’s grievous water pollution problem was twice as bad as previously estimated because agricultural wastes were not included in earlier estimates.

Industrial pollutants, like chemicals and heavy metals, and untreated human waste also help render much of China’s freshwater unsafe for human consumption.

Eritrean Refugees

Photograph by John Stanmeyer

Momina Mohammed and her eight-month-old son Ali eye an uncertain future from a refugee camp in Suola, Ethiopia, near the Eritrean border.

Mother and child are both suffering from severe malnutrition, as are thousands of other Eritreans who fled across the border to escape harsh lives under their own government. A lingering drought had already claimed the lives of many domestic animals, like goats and camels, on which many people depended.

Water Conservation, Australia

Photograph by Amy Toensing

In drought-ravaged southern Australia this Hallett Cove family not only shares showers, but carefully captures the runoff in buckets. In this arid land water is simply too precious to let go down the drain.

Children Gathering Water, Iraq

Photograph by Karim Kadim/AP

In a war-torn landscape, the broken water pipes of Baghdad’s Sadr City allow children to fill their containers, but waste much of the area’s meager water resources. For many Sadr City residents, the water situation improved when a new water treatment plant came online in 2009.

But piped-water systems in Baghdad and many other parts of Iraq and the world are expensive to maintain and require power to drive their pumps. Breakdowns in such infrastructures, caused by warfare or simple wear and tear, restrict water supplies and cause contamination.

Girl Carrying Water, Darfur

Photograph by Ron Haviv/VII/AP

A weary girl carries water for her family in a refugee camp outside Nyala, North Darfur, Sudan, during the summer of 2005. Some 2.7 million people were displaced by the conflict in Darfur, which appeared to be easing toward a close in early 2010. Refugee camps lack basic infrastructure, and residents must spend much of their time on survival tasks like finding clean water.

United Nations officials say each person on Earth requires 5 to 13 gallons (20 to 50 liters) of clean water a day for drinking, cooking, and keeping themselves clean. Refugees must make do with far less, and are often dependent on aid groups or governments to deliver water by truck.

Source: http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/photos/freshwater-conflict/#conflict01-carrying-water-darfur_13144_600x450.jpg