Living Santiago

I have been thinking over and over about the hard relationship between germans and immigrants. Every country should at least consider migration, as a subject gaining importance in the world. One becoming smaller and smaller. People trying to get into Germany, Spain, the USA and many others left home looking for a chance: a new life, better universities, work oportunities and so on.... Migration becomes also, a cultural matter to be consider. How are countries reacting to this on going process? Lots of aspects involved like education, healthcare and cultural integration. As important as it looks like, is already being consider by authorities in many countries.

There is another important subject related to cultural exchange wich has not been take care of as it should. This is not produced by migration nor diplomatic relationships, but cultural activities and productions. Let me ask you something: Which were the tools used by the USA, in order to became world wide known? If we let the, military and economics movements out of the frame (just for a second), the cultural aspect becomes an outstanding issue. Do I even have to mention the power remaining on Holiwoods productions (or the music bussines)? I don’t think so.

Chile (I imagine the hole Latin America as well) is becoming every day destiny of massive productions, modifing cultural paradigms and structures. Emo, Punk, Skinhead (and others) are tendencies wich literaly “landed” here a few years ago, but now there is a new process taking place in my country. Called (by the press) “The silenced ‘japanization’ of chilean teenagers” has been spread all trought middle class. Impulsed at first by comics as well as anime, now fashion and music (specially rock and JMusic) are the hit.

Is this a results of an asiatic cultural move? Is this other step on their way to the top of the nations ranking? Meant to be or not, the results are on plane sight: Young people are more intrested on oriental languages and the asiatic way to think. In short term to be consider, the ‘new’ oriental concept is inn. How will chilean society react is something we are about to discover.