C. S. Rodríguez’s blog

Satirical micro-essays

Short texts, irony and uncomfortable questions that look at everyday life from another angle.

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Offence, censorship, polarisation and the media

THE JUST CAUSE THAT NEVER ENDS

Great causes usually arise around a real problem: a blatant injustice, persecution, unbearable pollution, a population deprived of its rights or a crisis that demands action. At first…

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Language, identity and representation

CULTURAL APPROPRIATION

Cultural appropriation is a concept used to describe the adoption, by an individual or a group, of elements belonging to another culture, such as clothing, hairstyles, music, recipes, s…

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Language, identity and representation

THE ACTOR WHO MUST MATCH THE CHARACTER

One of the ideas associated with so-called «authentic representation» holds that characters belonging to certain groups should, whenever possible, be played by actors who share that sam…

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Language, identity and representation

THE TERRIBLE CRIME OF PINK AND BLUE

Gender stereotypes are preconceived ideas about how people should dress, play, behave or live according to whether they are men or women. In childhood, they appear, for example, when pi…

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Language, identity and representation

MIGRANTS, AN AUDACIOUS STUPIDITY

A few years ago, immigrants used to arrive in Spain. Now you turn on the television news and they seem to have disappeared. Almost everyone is now a migrant: migrants arrive in the Cana…

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