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Can someone explain to me why the fuck do Chileans want to vote for this clown (www.theguardian.com)
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Can someone explain why this is happening? are Chileans the gusanos of Latin America or are they just white people?

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[–] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Part of it is that Chile was founded as a settler colony and some Chileans identify with that

[–] demerit@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 5 months ago

Mapuche people are very "present" in their resistance against the Chilean state. After all spanish is not an indigenous language of the americas.

[–] pyromaiden@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think people often forget that most countries in the Americas are settler-colonies because they don't resemble the English/French settler-colonies. They approached race differently and have often been the victims of Western Imperialism so they occupy a strange middle ground between progress and reaction.

[–] KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 months ago

Yup, that's why those countries seem to go from fascism to socialism and back between elections