I'm from Colombia. I can say that Colombia has beautiful landscapes, a wonderful culture and food. Many of my friends who are not from Colombia told me that when they visit Colombia they can see how friendly Colombians are, they fall in love with the people, food, music, community and language. I feel the same, I'm so proud to be a Colombian and I really enjoy sharing my culture with other people while I learn about their cultures and countries.
I have to say that Colombia has many problems too. We have a high level of poverty and unemployment. The minimum salary in Colombia is around 249.37 USD. Many people have to live with less. Unbelievable right?. Also many people have informal jobs so they have an uncertain future, they won't have a pension. Some people said that you have to work hard and it's your responsibility if you're poor but I think that's not true. I'm not a socialist or anything like that. I understand that some people want to be rich and they work very hard for that, that's ok if it's their desire. But all people should have the basic needs covered. People need to have the opportunity to recieve a good education, healthy food, health care, a house, love, etc. We have resources to build a better system in Colombia, to provide those opportunities to more people. From my point of view we can start improving our educational system, we need more young people taking action through politics and decisions in the congress. We have to work hard against corruption, social problems, inequality, poverty, illiteracy, etc.
I believe in young people who are trying to give Colombia a better future. We have to support those leaders who have the potential, the passion and the ideas. I don't hate my country but sometimes the situation is overwhelming.
Despite I'm not a native, I really appreciated your text and I didn't find any mistake. I'm a guy who lives in Brazil, so we've got similar experiences and feelings about our countries. Here, we also have been surrounding of riots, scandals and things like that.
Although, I consider myself a socialist because I don't believe that we could reach this "better future" within a capitalist society. It may work in the United States, Europe or Japan, but it'll never happen in Latin America.
Hi! American native English speaker here! I corrected some of the mistakes, but overall I understood what you were saying. Honestly, a lot of what you say feels similar to my own opinions about the USA. We do not have the best system to care for the poor in our country, but I also believe in young people and a brighter future. Best wishes!
Yeaaah🤧🤧🤧 my feelings are alike!!! I love my country very much, I wanna the greatest future for it, that all layers of population have a well-rounded education, opportunities, health treatment and so on. But sometimes I feel disgust towards the people. On one hand, we frequently joke about leaving our homeland, how poor we are and how unequipped and inadequate our school facilities are. On the other hand, to my mind, we have quite many "privileges" or advantage s: free education and medicine, many holidays, more options to buy an apartment, money from the government and so on. But there're many people who just take advantage of it, I mean, mostly young parents decide to have children as the government will pay for it, with every another child the sum will increase, so poor people just relay on this money and... surprisingly! There's not enough money, so they keep on living in poverty with 3 children and depts 👍and then it turns up the main part of money was spent on alcohol and cigarettes and over time their children have different illnesses :/. people are so used to being provided with all that's needed that they've just got lazy and put up with reality ✌️😗 Sorry... I've written pretty much, so don't get all my words seriously:))
(In response to what Peter said, I don't think capitalism works in the U.S. either. There is a huge class divide in the United States, our healthcare system is for-profit, and higher education is outrageously expensive... among so many other things. It's all a mess.)..... Marbell, I share some of these feelings in regards to my own country; I know what it is like to hate some things and love others! I don't know a lot about Colombia's history but it does inspire me to see so many young people working for a better future and I appreciate you writing about it.
Oh and one more correction that I couldn't comment: in your title, it should be spelled "hate" (heat=calor).