Hi, humans! Well, today we watched the last part of “Whale rider” and I
have to say that I liked the movie so much. Maybe because I don’t see happy
endings all the time, but I think one of the biggest reasons for me, is the atmosphere that surrounds the movie. I thought, during the entire movie, that I was watching something really pure. Maybe because the music, maybe because of the union between the landscape and the music. Is very nice to learn new things about distant places thanks to a movie. As Mimí said -somewhere in this portion of universe called ICD 2014-, we know nothing. But, why do people from New Zealand knows and respect their heritage and culture? Why people from other places can feel proud of their roots?. I remembered when Mr. Villa talked about the "All blacks" and well, I started looking for videos about them. I found this one -not about the All Blacks-.
It's awesome how they put their heart in that dance. While I was watching the video, I read some comments about it. One of them, said that "... the Hakka is terrible and disrespectful to the sport"
I believe everyone can have any opinion, but I can't see what's wrong with the Hakka. Maybe she was refering to a sport behaviour, but I think that keeping alive this kind of dances or cultural manifestations is very important nowadays. Globalization is very convenient for progress and all that stuff, but for cultural minorities can be really harmful. In EPE we read about a school, where a high percentage were Mapuche. The sad part about that story was their feelings about being Mapuche. They were not proud, they felt very ashamed sometimes. Their parents mentioned how mapudungun was disappearing from generation to generation.
I remembered a day when members of a Mapuche community went to my school. It was their New Year, the We Tripantu -which makes reference to a new rising of the Sun-. They were laughing and I don't think things have changed since then. Maybe it was something different for them, but we must show respect always. I don't know why we are not proud of our heritage, some people feels inferior because of having a Mapuche last name. I admire some qualities of them, like their persistence and strength. Nowadays is too much difficult to see their good things, because the media only shows their "sinister and violent" side.
While I was looking for more information about Māori, I found a very interesting site:
There you can find a lot of information about Māori and New Zealand, too.
After reading some of the entries there, I wondered which could be the equivalent of this site in Chile and I remembered this one:
http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-channel.htmlBut first, here you have two rituals related to Death and a question.
I used to look for information there. If you know about any other similar site, I would really appreciate if you comment it here :D
Oh! Finally, I'll let you go :G
Mapuche people also have rituals Why do you think we don't see often this kind of cultural manifestations in Chile?
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ReplyDeletei agree with you, most of the time, we do not give importance to our native peoples, ashamed to be part of our history and identity as a country, I would like that in Chile the cultures of native peoples be rescue and take more seriously as part of our collective identity.
ReplyDeleteYou said it, Pedro. I hope that happens some day. The Government has a big responsibility in that respect. I know there are some programmes related to this area, but they don't have much of an impact . We're going to be teachers, so, I think we should do something. We can try to save our heritage and promote our students -in the future- to do the same. Maybe we'll succed, maybe we'll fail.We need to try.
DeleteThanks for your comment, Pedro.
Regards!