Maybe, we are not so patriotic because we know that we lived in a country full of lies. Supposedly, we have an identity but that is only the influence of other cultures. We don´t have anything own, and that is terrible. We never think in ancestral people but in these celebrations everybody loves Mapuche and Rapa Nui culture. We are Chileans only when our Chilean teams play soccer.
I don’t know anything about native people, I´d like to learn. I think we should have bilingual education, in my school I didn’t learn anything about ancestral people. I remember I made a presentation about Onas but that wasn’t enough.
I really I can´t identify with a culture that I don’t know. I hate some people when they said “I´m brave because I have mapuche blood”. They said that and they don’t know anything about them; besides, they don’t know the problems that affect in their lives.
If we think that Chileans are lazy, I could say that is my principal characteristic. I like diversity, I think Chileans are different among them we are heterogeneous. Also, we love double meaning and these kinds of jokes.
I´m not proud to be Chilean. I am not saying that I hate to be Chilean but I really we have to improve a lot like country. The problem is not the people, is our government. Well, we have a bit of responsibility if we are more interesting in important things we could change our reality. We have to support native people.
The so called Chilean culture is an invention, it doesn’t exist but that happens in other countries too. The nationalism was an invention of the high level before of Chile´s independence. They needed create a new state in order, and the patriotism was the perfect way for reach some goals like win territories and minerals in the war of the pacific. I´d like to live in a world without frontiers and lies.