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Well, I want you to accompany me to a
pretty lightning trip not to leave
to another place but to go to the place
of the other
a few months ago when I started
imagine this day I thought it was a
important issue in the latter
weeks in these latitudes
I come thinking that it is a matter of
treatment and soslayable
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so let’s start by sharing the
experience of dreaming victorina that the
experience of many people and what they
I’m going to ask is that we make it our own
imagine that we have been feeling
well but in the hospital studies
it does not look anything
the doctors tell us good we’re
stressed
but the discomfort grows and with the discomfort
the concern is ours and that of
our family not then we give ourselves
mind that it was time to make
case what we are told by the
family friends and find out between
the acquaintances what can be the
machi that can receive us and attend and
you’re going to have to put a lot of money together
because the web is expensive because there
to take enough buses to go
from our ruca here to the rock of
the machi near temuco does not mapu but
they help us put together the little plate and
we travel ten days we are outside
home but the truth is that we started
to feel better
the week of internment in the house of
the machi the eu that we started
take the conversations that we had not
they were clarifying a lot the panorama we
they made senses
then we said good let’s bring all the
water and we can like that we have time left
work together masculin return what
They loaned us and come back for maxwell but
It turns out that Havana
those little bottles full of soil
they can pass the border
we try to explain good in
the web but the officials already
they started to get upset because they
They are doing their job and are
close the pass
so we leave the web or lose the
collective and then on the trip of
he came back
we are feeling a lot of anger when we
we remember the bottles on the web
next to the garbage cans and let’s go
feeling a lot of impotence
they tell us that what is not healing
to us it is a risk for the state
HEALTH phytosanitary phytosanitary
population as if we were
part of the population and we started to
feel a lot of fear because if we stop
take it on the web
maybe we will get worse and what is
worse yet maybe that hurts the machi that
I put part of his mummy in the
web preparation
and then that feeling bothers us
of arbitrariness of not knowing when
we can pass if and when not with the web
sometimes yes sometimes not and especially of
think how much ago and how many people
these things happen
I chose this trip because of what
I know a little bit more and because we are
here in patagonia but there could be
chosen to very similar situations that
they are going on all the time in different
parts of the world so what I’m going
to ask that no matter with what part
identify more no matter how
you believe that things have to
be hold up with me
on the one hand the feeling of discomfort of
some and on the other the feeling of
anger annoyance impotence injustice
others because the possibility that we have
to think better ways to live and
of being together is going to have to do with
our predisposition to analyze and
understand situations like these do not
It’s been a long time since we appeared
an intercultural word to see and
name something that until recently
apparently we did not see
we named if we live in societies
heterogeneous with heterogeneity
very different type and how we now have
word seems to us that this word does not
it works both as a diagnosis and
with a remedy to treat this kind of
situations
the thing is that multiculturalism is
a pretty deceiving word that all
we can use meaning
very different things and that’s why what I
I would like to share with you today
certain concerns some
learnings and also my expectation and
enthusiasm for what we can achieve what
that we will be able to achieve when we
let’s really take this seriously
possibility of thinking
interculturality as a horizon for
a fairer coexistence
let’s start then with the
concerns said he does not do so many
decades that interculturality
it helps to name something that we did not come
seeing that it did not seem important to us and
now we realize how good it is
certain relevance
we call multiculturalism as
it’s like this because we would have been
relatively blind to these issues
and if we have a word
surely we will have some recipes
to treat these things not the not so
good news that we do not have recipes
because what we are going to do with
our coexistence surely depends
of our stories as a society of
our dynamics now for one another
side the not so bad news is that if
for near and distant experiences
own and others
there are better and worse ways of thinking
interculturality and it’s where I
I would like to share some learnings
some I did them because of my training
anthropologist and others from experience
work and life that I was having
later when we hear complaints from
interculturality when we are made not
to the social set claims of
interculturality
they are usually calling us the
attention to two forms of
discrimination that are equally
harmful and that in many cases for
certain people go together
the first one seems pretty self
It is obvious that we are little
to school
we know that we are all citizens
equal in front of the law then it is
easy
why discriminating is having a deal
differential towards some not giving them
equal access to those rights
there are many debts in this sense
still but let’s follow the antidote the
antidote against this is the
universal rights
that’s why customs officials
they know they are doing well
they feel that they are doing well because
they are taking care of the phytosanitary state
of the entire population that would be a
right of all
the other form of discrimination maybe
be a little harder to see
for several of us and that’s why it has
a lot of resonance with the lightning trip
what I asked them to do, not that
Doña’s feeling of pain and anger
victorina for example or so many others
when they feel their belongings their
perspectives do not take place in the
daily institutional coexistence and
that’s when the antidote that we have
to remedy different types of
injustice that can be a partner
cultural gender and sexual option
of age class of capabilities
different are the rights
differentiated
those differentiated rights that we
they mark injustices with which
lived day to day because because
violent an idea of population that
homogenizes from the values and some
the supposed values of all when in
reality those values that we
homogenize are usually and apologize to
several but those of a white male
educated Spanish-speaking adult
heterosexual and up to here
good anthropology and philosophy
I love what I would like
to share are learnings that I did
then common sense usually
with so many things that we have when
we read some of this the diaries only
we listen through some newscast
or grab us in
at the door of our houses is to think
that every claim of interculturality is
a problem we have so many a problem
plus
however we do know how to listen if we
we take the time to leave our
prejudices and our pilots
automatic
we are going to realize that the claims
intercultural really are
diagnoses are diagnostic of what
it does not work
our coexistence of the things that
we would have to change for example and the
true that I was also realizing
with age
He was finishing to understand many
things that I had been listening to year
victorina don guillermo doña teresa
dona lorenza of so many
that pain and that frustration just
I could finish to understand when it was
imposed the place of the other
in the place of the other being a student
abroad and when the only thing
saw was all the time weird faces or
uncomfortable silences that were
showing me that my accent corporeality
even my way of being mom was
inappropriate or inappropriate
it means that if we do not encourage ourselves to
resonate with what each one of us
the majority
many of us have some
experience of having been put in the
place of the other resonating with those
experiences
there starts something that is good at what
is based
my expectation and enthusiasm because in
actually the way of the
interculturality is a way that well
travel will enrich us and we will
reaffirm and especially for the
possibility of exorcising certain
injustices to prevent them from going out with
things so much anger when the
I think we can express myself in a
moment where by historical debts that
they are not their own and because of conflict
that are appearing in different
parts of the world
It is obvious that we have not known how to find
good way to be together
we have international recognitions
We have legal recognitions
national but the truth that still
There is a lot to do and the good news
is another good news that we are good
in a good frame to put hands to the
work of 2015
we live in a municipality that is recognized
as intercultural it means that
our little place in the world
It could be a good laboratory
practices and experiences for us
and for others
I’m not going to tell you that this is going to be
easy
If we want to change things, it’s not enough
with that distant respect of is a
problem of us we are going to have
that feel uncomfortable uncomfortable and the
discomfort that arises from whether to put on
the table our disagreements and our
conflicts and surely the official
of Customs lowers you to bother having to
use other protocols and let go
things without also understanding that it is in the
web and other travelers are going to say why
this person can pass what I do not
I can pass and doña victoria and so many
others to get upset again by
have to explain what happens with the web
because they are in treatment thing that
nobody else has to explain when
crosses the border but if they achieve
hold with me
those feelings of impotence anger
of injustice of annoyance
I hope you start to feel that
travel these discomforts
it’s worth it and it’s something to see
we should not be afraid of
disagreements the coexistence or leagues do not
are those that occur without disagreement and without
conflicts occur in situations where
We know how to process our
disagreements and we know how to build it
common from the differences
in this sense good if there are many
things that are responsibilities of
state and state policies
but what excites me is knowing
that achieve better ways of being together
It depends on our creativity
rethink it to rethink the social but
It depends on the sensitivity we have
and for me sensitivity is something that
leaves here to find
to commit ourselves to those better ways
to live at home in bariloche in
nahuel huapi futalaufquen meu and more
There too
Thank you
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