Wanted to know more about Van Gogh...

Well, no only about Vincent Van Gogh but also other artist and museums around the world. This site contains an amazing collection of some of the most important world artists, and there is the option to make a tour inside the museum as real as people were there. Besides, it is posible to watch some workarts in format of high definition image, with such as clear images as if you have a microscope to zoom in to the picture very close. Of course you could see some paintings of Van Gogh like like "The self-portrait", "The bedroom" or "sunflowers" as we watched on the episode of doctor Who. Awesome!!!

The complete website is

www.googleartproject.com

But if you search for in google with words "google museum project" you can reach the site, and select at the first view Van Gogh Museum

my comment

With respect to the first video I think the hosts were rude with Mexican people. They consider that all Mexican people are lazy, use big hats.
I wonder if they talk in that way about the country they are from. I don’t think they would do that.
They say we eat tortillas but… Is there something wrong in that fact? I think they haven`t visited Mexico.
Mexican people in general are not lazy. We have to work at least eight hours a day, but if we have a lot of work to do we have to work more, as well we are not always allowed to take vacations. Due to the economic situation people have to do the work that the people wich was fires used to do. This is a gossip tv program.
With respect with the second video, the host came to Mexico. I think it was great because he really feel, saw, taste how Mexican people live. He didn`t focus on gossip at all.

Ican´t post my vote on the blog. I don´t know why.
But I vote for mary and maxxx!

Top Gear comments about México

I hadn´t seen this program before, so when I first heard the comments the British hosts made about Mexicans I feel disgusted and offended, but then I realized that the hosts use to made that kind of bad jokes which aren´t funny for the countries they made fun of.
First of all I don´t like the stereotype “Mexicans are lazy” in every country are all kinds of people even in England exists lazy people. One example that contradicts the lazy stereotypes about Mexicans is that many compatriots migrate to the United States looking for a job, because unfortunately here they don´t have many opportunities. Then the comments they said about Mexican food are derogatory and without real facts, they only express their opinion based in stereotypes. I´m sure that every tourist who had visited Mexico knows that we don´t only have “cheesy and greasy food” we have a variety of dishes for every taste, like the ones shown in the program of Anthony Bourdain. Finally I don´t agree when the hosts said that Matretta car was slow they didn´t test it.
People shouldn´t believe in stereotypes, we have to make our own opinion based on facts and our experience. I hope that the people who see Top Gear have an open mind and consider visiting Mexico to notice that many stereotypes about our culture are false.
I`m proud for being Mexican!

No reservations and top gear

In my opinion, I think hosts at top gear don't have any information about Mexican culture at all, so, from my point of view, they can't make any comment about Mexican food and people. First, they have no idea about food heritage in our country, because not everything is tortilla as they believe. Even corn is the base of Mexican food there is a variety of dishes that don't require corn. On the other hand, they suppose that stereotypes are true, but it's false.Speaking personally, Mexican aren't lazy, we work very hard, and everybody can realise in the number of people who travel to USA and look for a job and try to have a better life.

On the other hand,I would say that Anthony Bourdain's travel is a better idea to avoid stereotypes, because he decided to visit Mexico and eat their food before giving an opinion. But I disagree because he just visited places on the street and he ate fat food, also he stayed on a cantina drinking tequila, I think it contributes to stereotypes, because people from other countries can think we always eat junk food and that we are drunk people. In my opinion we could've choosen better places to visit and give Mexico a better image.

TV programs might give wrong stereotypes

Neither Top Gear nor Anthoni Bourdain programs give the realness of Mexican food, however, both stereotype Mexican food. It is true that Mexican food is a World Cultural Heritage and its complexity may attract many people around the world, nevertheless, not everyone loves all Mexican food as Anthoni Bourdain tries to convince you. However, I disagree completely in the idea that Mexican food is made of cheese, greasy and always has tortilla, in addition, in Top Gear, they named the Mexican car tortilla and say that probably it’s slow, but it can actually achieve 240km/hr and accelerates from 0-100km/h in 4.9 seconds.

Both programs leave no room to other opinions; they generalized their experience and probably there is more to say about Mexican food, both pros and cons.

I think that...

With respect to the TV shows that talk about Mexico I think we have two different opinions. In Top Gear they just make fun about the Mexican people but it is clearly they don´t have any idea what is Mexico, they don´t know the real Mexican food and they haven´t ever met a Mexican. It is true that the main idea of this TV show is make fun about everything but they should know there are limits.

On the other hand in the TV show Anthony Bourdain No Reservations he didn´t make fun about Mexico in all the single program, he actually came to Mexico and he made an opinion about Mexico, the Mexican food and the Mexican people. I really liked this TV show I think it is funny and amusing but without be offensive.