Chile - Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture Perrone Caterine Paperback
Chile - Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture Perrone Caterine Paperback Chile is a land of contrast and surprise, flanked by the Pacific Ocean on the west, the Andes to the east,…
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Chile - Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture Perrone Caterine Paperback
Chile is a land of contrast and surprise, flanked by the Pacific Ocean on the west, the Andes to the east, the forbidding salt basins of the Atacama Desert to the north--with a verdant Central Valley and Cape Horn at its southern extremity. Their geographical isolation from the rest of the world, their colonial past, and the near 20years of repression under the military dictatorship of General Pinochet have had a profound influence on their character. The Chilean people, too, are surprising: on one hand reserved, family-oriented, Catholic, and conservative; and on the other fun-loving, entrepreneurial, neoliberal, and modern.
In fact, the country's position as the Latin American stronghold of Catholicism is being challenged by Chileans of all generations, and pressure has led to unprecedented changes in Today, traditional Chilean values are being questioned by the younger generation.