Yep, our negative life experiences accumulate, and leave deep traces.
My sense (having visited Chile often, speaking Spanish, having Chilean friends and cousins – including politicians) is that Chile lacks the two bases on which the “Nordic model” rests: ethnic and social homogeneity (before the recent waves of Third-World immigration began to sink Scandinavia) and evangelical Christianity (“Protestant work ethic”, etc.). There’ve been attempts since the early nineteenth century to free the country from Roman Catholic fatalism, and attempts to deny political power to various ethnic and social groups, all with the intent of constituting what would be a very different country. As matters stand now, all such attempts seem foredoomed.
“mem”, the vertical division in the population graphs is for sex, not for political preference.
Are we blessed by the presence of the very same RWS who disappeared from the former board long-long-long time ago?..
~LF (formerly “rune”)
Who else would post as RWS?
Welcome back, I bet you are surprised many of us lasted this long and are still here in Chilezuela.
