"What we are now is a consequence of the past"

We are now the result of multiple events that took place long time ago.

The way you think, speak and even relate to other people might be involved too.
Why? Because you know how you don't want to be, and how you wish people thought about you, looking up to you.

Once we are inside (or we hypothetically are) a different community, country etc, and only a few are different from the rest;  What would you do if you were that few?
Mingle under the social pressure and forget who you are, where you come from? or decide to show your culture, your beliefs or your way of seeing life to everybody else?

In my opinion the most rational thought would be to show my lifestyle, different from their own so they could understand me where I come from.
But things aren't' that easy, some people just don't accept those who have "different" beliefs and collide with their own. They set them apart and sometimes even discriminate them for it.

This way, people from around the world often do not show to the world how rich is their culture and start to create communities to keep their traditions and because we in the first place made the difference.

And how is this useful? It is not. We loose the chance of knowing a different way of seeing life, things and all what it includes which can be pretty self-rewarding.

This way we let cultures to die, without learning about them or getting to know them.. we are letting part of our possible history to die denying it or even worst ignoring it. Because we can keep traditions and also be a "part" of this modern world, one thing does not exclude the other.


So here's a question:  considering that Chile is a country who has a rich ethnic history,
Do you believe we have forgotten our past, where we come form?