I personally feel admiration for the Mapuche. Literally translated as prople from the earth, they are the original inhabitants from what today is the south of Argentina and Chile. The Mapuche are composed of various groups who shared a common social, religious and economic structure, as well as a common linguistic heritage as Mapudungun speakers
Ever since I was a child, I heard about their pride and their bravery. The spanish invaders try hard to dominate them, but that was never entirely achieved. Even today they resist as a culture, undermined by the common chilean person, the mapuche fight to have validation of their ancestral land, and the state of Chile does not recognize their existence as a nation within the country.
Nowadays chilean media talks about 'The mapuche conflict" to refer to a series of violent acts allegedly done by mapuche freedom fighters, when, in my opinion, the right thing to do would be to have dialogues with their leaders and try to get to a solution for a conflict that has gone on for too long.
What do you think about this? let me know in the comments.
Nowadays chilean media talks about 'The mapuche conflict" to refer to a series of violent acts allegedly done by mapuche freedom fighters, when, in my opinion, the right thing to do would be to have dialogues with their leaders and try to get to a solution for a conflict that has gone on for too long.
What do you think about this? let me know in the comments.
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Chile since it's conception has treated our natives terribly, whether it was through the Selknam genocide, or the prejudice perpetuated to the Mapuche, some of which are treated in inhuman conditions, and it's repulsive.
ResponderEliminarJust how you say it, one of the things that I really admire from the Mapuches it is their pride and their bravery, specially the fact that they have survived millions of years in this conditions and no one ever has exiled them. However, I really hope that the things with them get better, its so not fair that the things keep being so violent every day against this ancient culture, I mean we are in the XXI Century and it's hard to believe that this kind of things and attacks keeps happening.
ResponderEliminarI hope the people realize that the Mapuches are our ancestors and many thing in our lives are a mix between them and Spanish people, so I think we should respect that and respect them because they are a part of us besides that they are people and we should respect them just for that. I can't understand the violence in those days, I can't understand either how a person can be so angry with another person that he/she hasn't done anything to him/her.
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