Are the terrorist the natural born killers?

Yesterday, a Belgian writer Frank Andriat was at our university. Basically, he is a French teacher in a good high school and he started his career, because he just wanted to understand his student’s problems. What a banal story, isn’t it?

Once upon a time, he was watching the news about a hideous attempt in Belgian metro. The journalist described a whole story and he did mention the family name of a terrorist responsible for this terrifying crime. Andriat couldn’t believe in it. That was his old student’s name. After checking some information, he found out that it was a brother of his student. A brother of a wonderful kid and sportsman who is banned to go to the USA for the championship, because of his brother crime.

One of the ways to become a terrorist is being a good, muslin boy without a lot of friends. They will organize a charity association which helps homeless people. They will say: Look, you are useful, merciful and nice boy. You make a world better. Maybe we want to help us brothers in faith in Syria? And step by step, you will be becoming a terrorist.

This is not a “crème de la crème” of French filmography, but if you understand how a normal boy becomes a cold blooded murder, you should see “La Désintégration” of Philippe Faucon and read a teenager book called “Je t'enverrai des fleurs de Damas”.

Bonne lecture.

Refugees have three heads

We don’t know Afghanistan and the Near East, because they don’t teach us about this part of the world. As a result of watching television, we considered this country as a hell. All the people are miserable there because of the poverty, fanaticism and the war. We should emphasis that Afghanistan has suffered from not only the international war with Soviet Union but also from a civil war between lots of tribes.

We are afraid of terrorists, so everybody does, but unfortunately that fear close us up. Europeans don’t want to invite any refugee, even orphans, because we are too scared by the danger of the terrorism. But seriously… why? Is a fear the only reason to not help another people? Maybe, we just should present them as a normal people to encourage the Europeans to support them?

“Rose afghan” is a Frank Andriat’s book about Afghanistan. Belgian writer destines his book to teenagers to get them familiar with a misfortune of Afghans. We see the world by the eyes of teen girl who just wants to live in peace. She doesn’t know the true meaning, because she was born in country where the war lasts from years. She is so lost, sad and desperate that we would like just to help her.

Ps. Frank Andriant will be this week at our university !

Am I pretty ?

One week ago, my cousin was coming back from a trip to Hawaii. As a client of American Airlines she ordered a coffee and was enjoying her pleasant flight. The stewardess’s served her a coffee and after that, se notice something: the average of age of the stuff was 40 years old. It could never happen in the Europe. Every time, she has been taking a flight, a stewardess was nice-looking, smiling, very young girls, but she has never met a mature woman.

Why in the magazines even a woman who is 50 years old, looks like a 30-year-old woman or someone after a plastic surgery? Why could we accept a face without a facial expression (Botox), but we could not accept a TV woman presenter with the gray hair?

Naomi Wolf in “The Beauty Myth” explains the entire problem connected to the cult of beauty and youth in our Occident society. The profound researches prove the sources of inequality and the impact of this on women.

It is vital, especially for a young girl who enters in the adult life that the ideal woman exists only on paper. We should encourage that girls to study, travel and focus on spiritual and emotional development instead of being obsess with her body. The “beauty myth” causes anorexia, bulimia, complexes, lack of self-confidence etc…

BTW : It’s worth going to the CK Zamek in Poznan to see an exhibit called “ZŁe kobiety”.

All that sex

Nowadays, the lack of sexual education takes us back to the Middle Ages. The young people, specially in Poland, acquire the knowledge the field of sexuality due to porno movies or the “fairy-tells” of their friends. It is not possible to talk with parents about it, because the love making is still a taboo. Moreover, most of the society is reluctant even to talk about their bed problems with a partner. According to the researches, a lot of woman are faking orgasm to please her man and because they are too ashamed of it.
Why don't we want to solve this problem and we are pretending that everything is just fine?

Let’s analyze the polish language: How do we call “vagina”?

Cipa – it is very vulgar
Cipka – it is less vulgar, but is still a bad word
Kaczuszka/ muszelka/ pierożek – it is so childish
Wagina – it’s way too medical
Srom – it has a connotation associated with a shame ("sromota, sromota, wstyd!")

As we know, our perception of reality is based on language we used. To sum up, without an adequate vocabulary is hard to start a conversation…
I would like to recommend “Sztuka Kochania – historia Michaliny Wisłockiej” to all people, young in particular. We should break this ridiculous taboo and teach our polish society to talk about love making.