Anthropology~

Hello! Well, today I will tell about why I am studying anthropology. I always knew that I wanted to study a humanist career, but not like the typical careers like laws or psychology, so I started to find out about different careers, and finding information about each one, I decided to study anthropology, because it seems to be very interesting. I think professionals in this area contribute to society through the effort to understand the different mentalities of different groups and cultures, and using that knowledge they try to improve the life conditions of the people, but from the idea of what they consider like a better lifestyle, not what we think it’s better for them. This is what I want to do, because I think that a real vocation always involves a social purpose.

For that, I think that professionals in this area need to have the skill to interact whit people, to comprehend how they think and live, an needs to puts in the others place to understand the other’s situation, mentality and culture (because  this is essentially what anthropologist do).

My favorite subject is ethnography, which is being with the people in their own environment, looking their activities and behavior and being part of that, participating whit them. I also like biology and how it is related with the different cultures, the different genetic information and even the running of the cells, it is incredible!  

But I am just in the first year, so in the future we will see how it really is. (: