first let’s play a game if you know who
these people are raise your hand let’s
start Jaime Rodriguez okay if you don’t
know who this is
this is a very famous football player
and he plays for Bayern Munich let’s
keep going check okay most of you know
her name
but can I hear her name yeah if you
don’t know who this is this is a very
famous artist let’s keep going one man –
Santos okay
very few people this is one of one of
the country’s president and he’s won a
Nobel Peace Prize let’s keep going okay
who knows who this is this is Gabriel
Garcia Marquez he has won a Nobel
Literature Prize Bala Scott who knows
who this is well many people and the
I don’t know if you’ve noticed but all
these people come from the same country
and that is well Colombia but let’s talk
about the second to the last person I
said powder squad who you all seem to
know well this person pablo squad was a
bad impact in colombia you may know the
TV series narcos but that is propaganda
and does not tell the real story of
martyrs go at this man did have a bad
impact in Colombia TV series or not and
well that was in the past in Colombia
and what he did he was a criminal he was
a drug dealer and the only thing that he
cared about was money unfortunately many
people around the world just knows
Noah’s for that and also probably most
of your fav favorite bands or singers go
to Colombia may make a concert and give
flowers to this man’s grave well these
are just stereotypes and this is what
happened in the past now Colombia has
changed in many many different ways
first of all we have amazing fauna like
the Renaud ardham they also lent a horse
and many more butterflies and also we
have a lot of fauna a flora like the
orchids the faith the national flower
the friendly horn and the but the palma
de serra the national flag the national
plant also something that Colombia is
really famous for is well sombrero
in conclusion stereotypes are bad and no
one can tell you how your country is and
what they’ve done because they still
don’t know it and you know more than
more than them now I’m gonna tell you a
story that happened to my family once I
was walking in Bratislava
with my family and we were looking for a
restaurant then after some time with
find the restaurant but we did find a
man he he asked that where we came from
and then we said Columbia this man kept
quiet for some seconds and then he said
I’m sorry
I don’t do drugs this really impacted me
because well I don’t want to be known
for that or any country in the world
also after we got to the restaurant that
we finally found I I started thinking
and I told my family that I started
thinking and I wanted to make this about
my talk and also something that you
should know are two tips that I learned
the first one is just to ignore the
person that just told you that
and the second one like I just told you
think about the flora fauna well
coffee beans hats whatever and tell them
what is important and beautiful in your
country thank you
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