Perhaps when
most people hear the word Chile, the first thing that comes to mind is Mexican
food, and I won’t deny that stuffed chilis are really good. However, there are
few that associate Chile with a Latin American country and maybe we need the
help of a map to find out where it is actually located.
Chile was a
scene where the Spanish troops had some of their largest battles in order to
accomplish their goal to conquer all of South America. These battles lasted for over 400 years. This
was due to the strong rival that was found between the tribal people of the
land, the Mapuches.
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One of the
main qualities that characterized the Mapuche people during the time of the
Spanish Conquest was that they did not know how to lose, and so no one could
beat them. It may be for this characteristic that when I started this IHUM 260
class and heard words like “twitter” and “blog” that I thought that this would
be the cause of an exception and the technology would beat me. I thought, how
would I, a descendant of these Indians who uses the same email address since I
was 12 years old, be able to accomplish this task. In my desperate search for what to do, I remembered
who I was and the legacy that I carry in my blood from my ancestors and I said
to myself, “ this will not be the moment in which I disappoint my ancestors!”
Who would
have thought that one day a Mapuche would be using twitter or expressing
himself through the means of a blog? Well, here I am the first of my kind. Some of you may be thinking that I am just an
indian using technology, but the truth is that because of the fact that I am
Mapuche, I do not know how to lose and I will not let a little blue bird named
twitter beat me. I will tell you all how things are going in all my battles
with this bird in my next blog. However, I hope that these battles do not last
400 years this time.
