Friday, September 9, 2016

"Multiculturalism in Chile" by IMN Country Representative for Chile, Dr. Miguel Lopez -Astorga.

 Multiculturalism in Chile


Chile is a country with a great cultural diversity. There are several reasons for that. On the one hand, the existence of native indigenous people, who lived and live in different geographic areas of its territory:
Norte Grande, Norte Chico, Zona Central, Zona Sur, Zona Austral, and, of course, Rapa Nui (Easter Island). On the other hand, the arrival of Spanish immigrants in the sixteenth century caused mixing processes, mainly in the center and the south of the country. Likewise, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, other groups of immigrants also came (in addition to Spaniards, who arrived in this time too, Italians, Swiss, Frenchmen, Yugoslavs, and Germans). Besides, Chile received Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese until the middle of the twentieth century .


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