Chilean culture

First of all I would like to say that I don’t feel good talking about the Chilean culture or the national holiday, because I think that at this time we just celebrate and commemorate the victories and legitimize costumes by the dominant class.

Now, if I have to define the things that I think that make people Chileans I would like to think about the popular costumes: like some kind of food (carbonada, cazuela, corn cake, empanadas, mote with huesillos, humitas, some kind of shellfish, etc.), country costumes related to the work on farms (like the traditional “party” named trilla where the people harvest chickpea, wheat or other kinds of vegetables and the neighbors and family go there to help in the harvest, but later everyone eats and drinks wine), some dances of the different cities around the country and the typical popular parties.

At the present I think that the most deeply rooted costumes are derivative of the popular parties and conserve things like eat a lot, drink so much, and dance. In the present most of the people makes barbecue, eat beer and other alcohols, dance modern kinds of music, and the most rooted traditional dance is the cueca, a dance that in my opinion is not much traditional.

I don’t know if I feel identify with some national element like nationalism or solidarity, I could say that I feel identify or angry about some injustice or about the domination that the most of the people in the country suffer, but I don’t know if that is a feeling promulgated these national days.

I don’t know what we should celebrate instead of the costumes imposed by the Chilean dominant class, the Spanish Conquistadors and the politic slogan imposed all these years. It’s difficult to say that we should celebrate Mapuche’s or aborigine cultures costumes because at this time we are not part of that and it could be a false commemoration with an exotic interest.

A place that I like

Hello everyone!

Last semester was stopped, as you know, by the strike. So we didn't have holidays. Today I'm going to talk about a place that I like and I would like to go in holidays(we have a little break next week because of the Independence Day).

I don't have one favorite place, because I really like travelling an knowing new places. So I don't prefer the country, the mountains or the beach, because it depends to the specif places, there are ugly and crowded beaches or countries that I don't like. 

But if I have to choose one of them I'd prefer in this moment the country, because of its tranquility. I usually goes to the country of my father's family. It's a huge place with some animals, a river and avocado trees. My favorite thing there are the old and abandoned houses of my father's ancestor.

It is on the sixth region, near to Melipilla, on a rural district named San Pedro. And I have go there all my life, because my grandparents used to live there. It was the meeting point of the hole family, to celebrate birthdays, holidays and to get together.

Now when I go alone or with my parents I just used to sleep so much over the grass, walk for the hills, and read. But I use to invite people with me, because that is a perfect place to lose contact with the things that we used to do.

I'm not sure about the place where I'm going this holidays, but I'm sure that I'll go there some days.

Regards!

About the last term

HI everyone!
The last term was too rushed, the strike took more time than we thought and the end of the process was really disappointed.

I was part of the strike but it's difficult to me take a precise position, because I think that the strikes are not the choice of the most of the people at the faculty, no one has the total clarity to propose the best tactics to work and to convince the others. The worst thing is that the most of the people is not thinking about the methods, is just acting quickly and repeating a process, since 2011.

Anyway,the last weeks of the last semester were chaotic. Everyone was studying for days with no rest (studying, reading or doing homework).The contents that we review at class were few and the lectures were a lot, so it was difficult to survive.  

This term I expect that the things will be better and I really believe that the time to work will be more, so we should review all the contents.