Indifference Syndrome

For being honest, I didn't expect this career would be so different like the image I use to have about anthropology. Speaking about my experience this year and a half I can say that things went well, but not only for the career but by my own merits to seek the approach of Asian studies and international relations that I have developed even so I must say that none of this could have done without the support that many people of this faculty have given me, there are very valuable people here for me. What comments can you make about your experience learning English at university? What about the use of blogs? About learn English, I feel that I need a greater challenge to learn better because all things I want to do in the future are related with know English and have good skills speaking and writing in English. I like the blogs, but I feel like I use to need more feedback about what I did well and what I did bad. My biggest need is to learn more English grammar and pronunciation becaus...

I liked too much this topic because i always thought that this career needs many changes. My main problem with this career is that I feel it is very anachronistic and has a little updated approach to current anthropology. Compared with other universities that have this career I think that this one has too much focus on indigenous issues. And yes, its okay have that focus in part, because the development of the anthropology was in context of indigenous investigation, and yes we have the case of the mapuche and all the investigation problems linked with their culture, but such a specific approach can generate a closure with anthropology in other parts of the world. As Miguel de Unamuno said "Fascism is cured by reading and xenophobia is removed traveling" maybe we need to focus our career in that, in the diversity of human groups but linked directly with them ... I know, it is difficult to make a whole generation travel around the world to meet people from other cultures, ...

What is your opinion about the immigration situation in Chile? For me, the current immigration is a mixture of elements that converged in what is now lived in Chile, and reflects two faces of globalization that are unexpected and uncomfortable. On the one hand, the climate destruction and corruption that hampered Haiti, and on the other, the exacerbation of mercantile capitalism and the economic growth that Chile has with growing inequality. These two elements when coming together generate problems that the population can not overcome at all, mainly in terms of how to relate to poverty and people with different language and skin color. The government's responses to immigration are inhumane, but they also reflect the fear of the other strangers we have not seen for so long from this terrestrial island What is your opinion about tattoos? For me tattoos are like characteristic signs of people, reflect their personality, tastes and experiences, some can also be directed to be mu...