Is real or only publicity?

Two centuries had passed and there is much history on Chile’s shoulders. This country had all kind of histories: sad, happy, successes, failures, disappointments, etc. All these events have forged a Chilean identity which raises and is seen by the world, and more so in the last decades. The world can’t be blind to the growing relevance of this long and narrow country. Something happened on this country, something made a change on the Chilean people, because is possible to feel the nationalism beats strong and hard.
Was the earthquake? Was the sports succeeds? Was the miners? Or is it only a publicity trick?

We have grown, there isn’t a doubt about that, but it has been a complicated growth. We haven’t follow a straight line, we had ups and downs. If we see Chile as a person, a human been conformed by millions of people with a common sentiment -as “meet dave” movie, but not so literal- it is not difficult imagine how that people loves their country.

The publicity can wash our brains, and believe me, the TV (and others medias) do that. But, if that were absolute, we not just copy the world, we would like them too. Today, there are less people who dedicate the “prisioneros” song (“¿Porqué no se van?”) in fact, the national turism have increased the last decades.

There is something more powerful than that. Facts and actions with national relevance don’t pass unnoticed to the people and have a profound impact on their minds. That’s the reason to explain the old and new Chile. Later, in comparison with the world, Chile have been experimenting a liberation and development process in too many ambits as artistic expressions, sex, politics, science, etc.

In summary, clearly, the bicentennial Chile have another perspective about and to the world due to the 180° spins along its history, spins that today, for example, positioned us as one of the most trusted economies. Also, Chileans stands at the same high than people of industrialized countries, proud to be part of this land by the own history, away from publicity.