Macedonia is global for cultures

The Segovian campus at IE University has become yesterday afternoon, and it is an outstanding festival without borders and with a small opening when someone asks for cooperation, approximately 200 volunteers jump to the football field that includes the theater. It is the role of Hayk Areg Khaachikyan, which creates a koro similar to its surroundings just an opportunity, but this fulfills its function: a completely intertwined world, the world of 35 nationalities represented in football shirts, regional fashion and flags drawn on the face. It puts them for Armenian dance: steps to the side, at the forefront, the back of the body and palm trees. The rhythm accelerates and takes, at the center, his teammates are to believe in the march, from two girls who wandered with the interlocking arm to four stimulating the jump. The rest follows the party as if they were Armenians for a moment. This is the World Village Day, the Diversity Festival, and the common reason for embracing other cultures as if it were their own.

It is the fifth year that Sigovia University celebrates with an event that also contains its issuance on the Madrid campus and not only touches students, but the employees. Each knows their culture in a position with food or letter. Dominica Pigon, a member of the Life campus at IE University, summarizes an event containing eight local companies, with prizes for the best decoration or performance, from a balloon trip in a hotel or restaurants such as Basaban or Casa Kumala, from this moment when they can show their place “in many cases the students themselves were the ones who promoted care.

Not only 35 nationalities, but they really draw a map around the world, from the Latinians (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia or the Dominican Republic) to Europe (France, Germany, Greece or Armenia), passes through Africa (Kenya, which is defined as “stars” from the east, to the Moroccan), to the Middle East (Lebanon). Open for them.

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“Year after year, we see more and more students participate. Bigon, who talks about social learning, says in a more relaxed environment than the classroom, even if I don’t want to participate actively, I want to go to the event and learning.

The attention of the campus exceeds, so the option is on the table to open it in front of groups of all kinds, also locally. Global Village Day is the ice of the annual work of university clubs of different nationalities, whose events are organized with a double value. “Not only to believe their community inside the club, but to present it to the entire university.”

The scenario serves everything, from singing to dance, reading poems or assumed simply, what Argentina did, few but noisy, with the World Cup they won with Leo Messi, with a body of cardboard, as if it were yesterday. From Albicileste and football to Matrioshka S Russas, or the Armenia Council chess or Moroccan tattoo of henna.

To eat, everything they want. France shows intersections, Switzerland chooses cheese and chocolate, the Mexico season shows Nachos and Kenya driving, fried bread with coconut milk.

“This year we are very happy to participate. Differences about what unites us, which is culture. Diversity is one of our pillars, for us, it is obligatory to encourage it. ”Demetrio mínguez, the assistant student, summarizes, with a call to touched the thousand.

While the mayor of Segovia, Jose Mazaria, the campus travels to learn about the various proposals of students, in the football field, Piñata was finally broken and Esteva is preparing for pure Segov dance and that knows that international tide of the dance on Jota, the dance of the place where half of the world overlaps.