The latest statements by María Pombo (influencer pioneer With great impact on the fashion world and more than three million followers on Instagram, where its empire of family spin-offs to kardashian and ramifications of all kinds) have made half the Internet Hispano Clame: “influencer To your influences“. Some unexpected and reckless reflections on reading habits have put it in the eye of the hurricane, but they have also placed an important issue on the table: is it so necessary to cultivate the reading habit?
María Pombo does not read (almost). That has recognized in A video on Tiktiok To respond to a user who criticized the bookcase he had shown in a previous video. “The bookstore is precious. But if it were full of books that have been read, it would be much more. Now I see only,” said the commentator. Pombo has tried to defend himself with a “I will say it: I think you have to start overcoming that there are people who do not like to read. And you are not better because you like to read”
And he adds: “They all instilled the reading at some point in our lives, and we all had to try, but there are people who like and people who do not.” And he puts his two sisters as an example: “I have one that is also influencer and devours books; And yet my other sister, That is a pilotone has not read in his life, I believe. ”Of course, the criticisms that have multiplied in successive videoswhere Pombo has taught, to exculp Influencers His friends.
The inheritance chases her, but she is faster. Paradoxically, and this is a detail without more importance than underlining the irony of the situation, María Pombo is a great -great -grandson of the novelist, journalist and translator Santanderina Concha Espinawhich in 1926 was about to win the Nobel. And it is also familiar (distant, yes) of the Cervantes 2024 AwardÁlvaro Pombo, grandson of Maria Pombo’s great -grandson, The designer Ana de Pombo. Without a doubt, a singular and respectable lineage for someone who has generated a controversy right in the opposite direction.
María Pombo is the symptom. Without a doubt, the most conflictive statement of María Pombo is one that says that “you are not better because you like to read.” It gives off a anti-intellectual thinking that engages perfectly with the current era: We live counter-cilestized timesthat foster a vision in which each cultural or social group claims its own “truth” exclusive, which makes it difficult to dialogue and critical thinking. The Emotions -based policy and post -truththat normalize the lie, manipulation and extreme polarization, make communication less truthful and the least valued rigorous thinking. All this encourages Simplist and conspiracy speeches derived from … people read less.
Force or respect. The important thing is that the attitude of María Pombo puts on the table a conflictive issue: should we force the taste for reading or respect the variety of interests? An issue that has generated academic positions of all kinds. For example, A 2024 study It emphasizes that reading habits, influenced by the interests and self -efficacy of the student, are positively related to the development of cognitive skills. However, Another 2023 study That reviews the relationship between reading habits, study skills and academic success, indicates that intrinsic preference and motivation are key, and that imposing rigid readings can be counterproductive.
In general, we all agree (even María Pombo, even if he does not express it with total clarity): Reading is an intellectual activity of positive effects. But it is also true that the creation of environments rich in reading stimuli are necessary to develop the reading habit. A 2020 study He talked about the fact that the variety and freedom in the choice foster the interest than the imposition, and that position seems to defend Pombo. Let each one do what they want is important, but you don’t have to lose sight of what results objectively more beneficial.
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