Values: HARMONY

By Diana Hernández

Generally, Spanish people are of strong character, proud and serious people because from children are educated with discipline and rigidity.

On the families and the schools the formation is based on the respect of norms established within each familiar group.

In Spain the harmony is based on the profits and I put reached about each individual without considering the society. Some times the Spaniards prefer to work hard replacing special moments with their families and friends.

Although Spanish are intelligent people and intellectual he needs to worry to them more about the familiar unit. Spanish people prefer a harmony based on its pride that a harmony based on the happiness.

Value: The family in Spain

By David Fonseca

Spain is the second country most visited by the tourist because it offers fascinating meal, exotic places and many activities that you probably would like. One of the most important values of this extraordinary nation is family. Family, which is considered in that culture as the center of our society, while in practice the family has had until recently very little attention from political parties that have governed our country; now, they are considered an important point to conserve the national identity.

Currently, public policies to support families in Spain are inadequate on the European continent. This lack of interest is due to garrafal conservatism dominant in this culture. This is sad because the conservative policy has not been worried about the centrality of the family, without offering help and services that facilitate their development and growth of natural lifestyle.

Moreover, government believes that father works, and with his salary or income he is responsible for the achievement and sustenance of the family, while the mother is responsible for breeding and care of her children. Also, she is responsible for the household. In many cities of Spain, the woman cooks to her husband and children. Besides, while the childdren are not very adult, they are educated by their mother before to start the college.

This is a problem, because the family economy declines by 25% per year. In 1995, families in which the man worked, it had a limited economic sustainability, while families where men and women worked, it increased by 10% over 100% of their income.

However, democratic members in Spain believes that the family belongs to the national identity of the country, where social democracy has been known as the political tradition that has given more support to families, providing of services such as public schools and home care services for the elderly and persons with disabilities. This allow the development of each member. For them, women are considered on equal terms with men; they have the right to work for autonomy. responsibilities and career aspirations.

Spain or the kingdom of Spain has thrilling places and activities to do. I think that the topic of the families needs to be checked by the government. Family is the natural life structure in many places. Finally, It`s very important to understand that family in Spain requires ideological and economic changes to preserve economic growth and the national identity.

Value: Creativity in Spain

Andrés Felipe González Sandoval.
ID: 200410250.
English VII

The value of creativity in Spain

Spain, a country located west of the European continent, is characterized by a wide variety of values. One of the most important values of this country is creativity. People in Spain, before and now, is really creative in all aspects of daily life.

People of Spain are creative since antiquity; a clear example of this is the great Roman Empire, which holds the current territory of Spain since the 44 century. The Romans used their creativity to create large structures like the Roman coliseum. We need a lot of creativity to make a building with dark tunnels so as the night, also need a lot of creativity to make a roof covering a portion of the coliseum. The walls of the coliseum are so great that it seems rock cliffs, their statues are so real that it seems that life had its interior and is so sophisticated that it appears that had been built in the twentieth century. The coliseum is a great example of creativity of the Spanish people in the past.

Nowadays, people in Spain use their creativity in various activities like art, sports, music and food. The artists of Spain are among the best in the world and many important works of art were born in this country. The Spanish football team, use creative tactics game so that it looks as if the soccer field outside a chessboard. Spanish music combines rhythms of flamenco, with some percussion instruments from Africa, the result of this mix are sounds that resemble the music of nature, with sounds of birds, water, wind and horses. The food of Spain has combined sweet and sour flavors. Only in Spain can eat paella original, with shrimp and prawns from the Mediterranean Sea. This is a clear example of the creativity of the Spanish people at present.

In conclusion, Spanish people have creativity from centuries before Christ. Creativity is currently seen in all the activities. These activities make this country is one of the most prominent in many things and for this reason that Spain is one of the countries with more cultural values throughout the world.

Value: DEVOTION IN SPAIN

BY: Yuliette Marcela García Kure

Universidad de la Sabana

DEVOTION IN SPAIN

Throughout history religion has been a topic discussion, creating different positions in those countries and descendants of Spain. So you may know the influence of devotion in Spanish region, just how the religion influences the political and cultural development of a wonderful country.

Catholicism became the state religion in 1851, when the Spanish government signed a Concordat with the Vatican that committed Madrid to pay the salaries of the clergy and to subsidize other expenses of the Roman Catholic Church.

Thus we can see that Catholicism is the predominant religion in the country, most cities are Catholic and conducted various activities to make its largest faith. For example Spanish people hikes performed during Lent and people realize meet some traditional visits to the dead as a special day of the week holy, and also people make visits to churches and perform prayers, also tradition to go to church every Sunday. In each of the artistic monuments of Spain there is any religious image. But there are also other religions as Protestantism, Judaism, Islam (all since 1992), Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses and Buddhism, the latter accepted in 2007. Religion in Spain has had strong influence in art, literature and music. Most museums, as previous mentioned has meaning of the Catholic Church. Artists like Velazquez, performed works with religious messages, Christ Church, Popes, among other works show the influence of the church.

Anyone who visits Spain should be aware that almost all the cities have relationship with the church and this to develop in buildings, museums and in the different religious celebrations.

if you want more about devotion in Spain:

http://www.spainexchange.com/es/viajar_espana/seccion-7.htm

es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religión_en_España