This document discusses cultural identity and diversity in the Amazon region. It covers several topics: 1. The importance of promoting the Amazon region by helping local cultures bring out their best qualities without imposing external cultures. 2. Each indigenous group in the Amazon has its own cultural identity and wisdom developed from its relationship with the local environment. 3. The transmission of cultural knowledge through oral traditions and the growing interest in indigenous groups writing down their own stories, customs and languages. 4. The benefits of intercultural dialogue and understanding between diverse groups without threats to identity or hierarchies of power. 5. Concerns about endangered indigenous cultures and peoples, and the importance of families and communication within indigenous languages

1. CHAPTER TWO
- A CULTURAL DREAM
The Amazonian polyhedron
Caring for roots
Intercultural encounter
Endangered cultures, peoples at risk

2. CHAPTER TWO- A CULTURAL DREAM
The important thing is to promote the Amazon region, but this does
not imply colonizing it culturally but instead helping it to bring out the
best of itself. That is in fact what education is meant to do: to cultivate
without uprooting, to foster growth without weakening identity, to be
supportive without being invasive QA 28

3. That is in fact what education is meant to do: to cultivate
without uprooting, to foster growth without weakening identity,
to be supportive without being invasive QA 28

4. Just as there are potentialities in nature that could be lost forever,
something similar could happen with cultures that have a message
yet to be heard, but are now more than ever under threat. QA 28

5. The Amazonian polyhedron
-The Amazon region is host to many peoples
and nationalities, and over 110 indigenous peoples

7. Today, growing desertification once more drives
many of them into the outskirts
and sidewalks of the cities, at times in dire poverty

8. but also in an inner fragmentation due to the loss
of the values that had previously sustained them QA 30

9. Forest fires seen from space

11. Each of the peoples that has survived in the Amazon region possesses
its own cultural identity and unique richness in our multicultural universe,
thanks to the close relationship established by the inhabitants
with their surroundings in a non-deterministic symbiosis QA 31

12. Each distinct group, then, in a vital
synthesis with its surroundings,
develops its own form of wisdom. QA 32

13. 2 - Caring for roots– For those of them who are baptized,
these roots include the history of the people of Israel and the Church
up to our own day. Knowledge of them can bring joy and, above all,
a hope capable of inspiring noble and courageous actions. QA 33

14. For centuries, the Amazonian peoples passed down their cultural wisdom orally,
with myths, legends and tales, as in the case of “those primitive storytellers who traversed
the forests bringing stories from town to town, keeping alive a community QA 34

15. some peoples have taken to writing down
their stories and describing the meaning
of their customs.QA 35

16. professional sectors have seen a growing sense of Amazonian identity;
even for people who are the descendants of immigrants, the Amazon region
has become a source of artistic, literary, musical and cultural inspiration. QA 35

17. 3 - Intercultural encounter - Our own cultural
identity is strengthened and enriched as a result of dialogue
with those unlike ourselves. Nor is our authentic identity

18. If we ourselves do not increase our sense of co-responsibility for the diversity
that embellishes our humanity, we can hardly demand that the groups
from the interior forest be uncritically open to “civilization”. QA 37

19. it is possible to develop “intercultural relations where diversity does not mean threat,
and does not justify hierarchies of power of some over others, but dialogue between
different cultural visions, of celebration, of interrelationship and of revival of hope. QA 38

20. 4 - Endangered cultures, peoples at risk
“the family is and has always been the social institution
that has most contributed to keeping our cultures alive”. QA 38

22. there is a need to promote for the original peoples
“alternative forms of communication based on their own
languages and cultures” and for “the indigenous subjects themselves [to]
become present in already existing means of communication”.QA 39

23. LIST OF PRESENTATIONS IN ENGLISH
Advent and Christmas – time of hope and peace
Amoris Laetitia – ch 1
Amoris Laetitia – ch 2
Amoris Laetitia – ch 3
Amoris Laetitia – ch 4
Amoris Laetitia – ch 5
Amoris Laetitia – ch 6
Amoris Laetitia – ch 7
Amoris Laetitia – ch 8
Amoris Laetitia – ch 9
Amoris Laetitia – general introduction
Carnival
Christ is Alive
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 1 – Church and Family today
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 2 - God’s plan for the family
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 1 – family as a Community
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 2 – serving life and education
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 3 – mission of the family in society
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 4 - Family in the Church
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 4 Pastoral familiar
Football in Spain
Haurietis aquas – devotion to the Sacred Heart by Pius XII
Holidays and Holy Days
Holy Spirit
Holy Week – drawings for children
Holy Week – glmjpses of the last hours of JC
Inauguration of President Donald Trump
Juno explores Jupiter
Laudato si 1 – care for the common home
Laudato si 2 – Gospel of creation
Laudato si 3 – Human roots of the ecological crisis
Laudato si 4 – integral ecology
Laudato si 5 – lines of approach and action
Laudato si 6 – Education y Ecological Spirituality
Love and Marriage 1-
Love and Marriage 2 – growing up to sexual maturity
Love and Marriage 3 – psychological differences and complimentarity
Love and Marriage 4- causes of sexual attraction
Love and Marriage 5- freedom and intimacy
Love and Marriage 6 - human love
Love and Marriage 7 - destiny of human love
Love and Marriage 8- marriage between Christian believers
Love and Marriage 9 – sacrament of marriage
Lumen Fidei – ch 1
Lumen Fidei – ch 2
Lumen Fidei – ch 3
Lumen Fidei – ch 4
Medjugore Pilgrimage
Misericordiae Vultus in English
Mother Teresa of Calcuta – Saint
Pope Franciss in Thailand
Pope Francis in Japan
Pope Francis in Sweden
Pope Francis in America
Pope Francis in the WYD in Poland 2016
Querida Amazonia
Resurrection of Jesus Christ –according to the Gospels
Russian Revolution and Communismo 3 civil war 1918.1921
Russian Revolution and Communism 1
Russian Revolution and Communismo 2
Saint Patrick and Ireland
Sunday – day of the Lord
Thanksgiving – History and Customs
The Body, the cult – (Eucharist)
Valentine
Vocación
Way of the Cross – drawings for children
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24. LISTA DE PRESENTACIONES EN ESPAÑOL
Abuelos
Adviento y Navidad, tiempo de esperanza
Amor y Matrimonio
Amor y Matrimonio 1 - 3
Amor y Matrimonio 4 - 6
Amor y Matrimonio 7 - 9
Amoris Laetitia – cap 1
Amoris Laetitia – cap 2
Amoris Laetitia – cap 3
Amoris Laetitia – cap 4
Amoris Laetitia – cap 5
Amoris Laetitia – cap 6
Amoris Laetitia – cap 7
Amoris Laetitia – cap 8
Amoris Laetitia – cap 9
Amoris Laetitia – introducción general
Carnaval
Cristo Vive
Domingo – día del Señor
El camino de la cruz de JC en dibujos para niños
El Cuerpo, el culto – (eucaristía)
Espíritu Santo
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 1 – iglesia y familia hoy
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 2 - el plan de Dios para la familia
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 1 – familia como comunidad
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 2 – servicio a la vida y educación
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 3 – misión de la familia en la sociedad
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 3 – 4 - participación de la familia en la iglesia
Familiaris Consortio (FC) 4 Pastoral familiar
Fátima – Historia de las Apariciones de la Virgen
Feria de Sevilla
Haurietis aquas – el culto al Sagrado Corazón
Hermandades y cofradías
Hispanidad
Laudato si 1 – cuidado del hogar común
Laudato si 2 – evangelio de creación
Laudato si 3 – La raíz de la crisis ecológica
Laudato si 4 – ecología integral
Laudato si 5 – líneas de acción
Laudato si 6 – Educación y Espiritualidad Ecológica
Lumen Fidei – cap 1
Lumen Fidei – cap 2
Lumen Fidei – cap 3
Lumen Fidei – cap 4
Madre Teresa de Calcuta – Santa
María y la Biblia
Medjugore peregrinación
Misericordiae Vultus en Español
Papa Francisco en Bulgaria
Papa Francisco en Rumania
Papa Francisco en Marruecos
Papa Francisco en México
Papa Francisco – mensaje para la JMJ2016
Papa Francisco – visita a Chile
Papa Francisco – visita a Perú
Papa Francisco en Colombia 1 + 2
Papa Francisco en Cuba
Papa Francisco en Fátima
Papa Francisco en la JMJ 2016 – Polonia
Querida Amazonia
Resurrección de Jesucristo – según los Evangelios
Revolución Rusa y Comunismo 1
Revolución Rusa y comunismo 2
Revolución Rusa y Comunismo 3
Santiago Apóstol
Semana santa – Vistas de las últimas horas de JC
Vacaciones Cristianas
Valentín
Vocación
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