What is your opinion regarding this?
I think that the treatment given to the Chilean natives
is awful. We (the chilean community) need to be concious that natives (as we) are people who belong to this country. Also, we have to be proud of them, because, remember, they were the onlyones who could stop the Spaniols, or, Do you want to be an Spaniol?
What do you know about our native people? Did you learn about them at school?
I know a few things about them, the thing is that I learned about them at the university, when I took the OFC about folklore, and not at school.
Do you identify with them in any way?
Even though I am not Mapuche, I think that we are people who have a country in common, and we have to leand about the other, because that could give us the identity that we lost.
What Chilean characteristics do you or don't you have?
I like everything that is connected to Chile, but not the gobernment. For example, I like the Chilean music, dance, food (even though I'm vegetarian), culture, geography, diversity, etc. The only thing that I don't like is the gobernment, because I strongly believe that they don't represent us as a community, they just represent their interests.
What things make you proud to be Chilean, and what things make you feel ashamed?
I am proud of Chilean natives, because they have the guts of persist fighting for their rights. But I am ashamed of being Chilean, because, as I said before, of the gobernment. They have made fun of everything that have happen in Chile like the Mapuche hunger strike, or the 33 miners, etc.
In your opinion, what is the so called "Chilean culture"?
Chilean Culture is wath we are lossing. What this means to me is the love that we feel with our country. How much we feel that we belong to this country. And that is not shown by dancing Cueca at September 18th, or eating Empanadas and Chicha. We need to love our country (and with "our country" I am not refering to our gobernment) every day.
I agree with you when you say that the government is baaad as hell, because they don't do what a real government should, that is to represent us as a democratical country. From my view, it's bad that you haven't learned anything about our native tribes at school, becuase everyone should know something about them, although, it's a good fact that you had learned here, at college.
ReplyDeletewell, it's kind of funny that the same examples that I gave are the ones you gave as well (cueca, empanadas, and chicha).
Well. Best regards, look yourself after, and have a great long weekend :) ... Bye-bye.
We are never satisfied with the government; maybe the solution is people need to be registered to vote in the presidential election including myself. On the other hand, I agree with you with love our country. For instance, in my case, I’d like to know all my country and learning more about it. I really think my country is very beautiful and having a lot things that it’s absolutely worthless.
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