“The joy that appears
when a foreigner comes,
and how we show him/her
the country remembers me
the colonial times, being
Chile the last corner of the
empire.”
Do you think Chileans are openminded? Have they been this way
through the history or is it
something recent?
-I don’t know if we have to say Chileans.
Maybe it has to be with Chileans’
generations. Today, there is an opening
to a large number of topics. Without
having statistics, it is possible to say that
the generations post- coup d'état are
more open-minded to talk about topics
with strong values within them such as
abort or equal marriage.
It is important to consider the impact of
mass media communication that has
increased
this
process.
That
is
categorical, but it also says that the
history is a process that doesn’t stop but
gets accumulated. Therefore, we should
expect that every time we are getting
more open minded.
-Do you think that Chile’s history
has been cyclic?
-No, the History is a constant. Some
acts can be similar in the form, but
they are in different contexts.
The History is like an arrow that doesn’t
stop, in its route there are some
elements that are added, some are for
changing, other for a term. If we would
had another coup d'état (there have
been many in Chile), it wouldn’t be
exactly as Allende’s, or Ibañez del
Campo’s or Jose Miguel Carrera’s. The
circumstances are different. If you do
a survey to people who have had
relationships in many opportunities,
most of them would say that each
relationship wasn’t a repetition. The
facts can be similar, but the contexts
are completely diverse.
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