Chile's got the first female president in its History.
Yahoooo. 'Till it finally came. We have the first female president in our history. And that's pretty interesting bearing in mind this is a terribly male-chauvinist country. Especially in politics world. Men do this, men do that...
Honestly, I don't really care about colors here. I don't care if she's socialist and I wouldn't care if she were right-winged. I do only care her FEMALE position.
Do you know how it feels seeing a woman for first time there in the Congress, promising before the Constitution, with that three colors strip? Huh, I felt proud of being Chilean again! I felt proud because my country was able to make a difficult decision, bravely. Because it was difficult. Let's face it.
I barely feel proud of being Chilean, I admit it. The history in our shoulders is bitter, I'd say. I wish I could turn back in time and delete a day in History of Chile's books. Not because the fact itself (I've always thought IT had to be done but not in THAT way), but the pain after all. There is still so much hatred, so much intolerance... People sometimes give their hatred as a legacy. You see kids yelling out for things they don't even understand. Sometimes I think Chile doesn't want to get out of its past. Past is past; we must face it, damn it! We don't have to forget the past but we cannot live forever there, these are not the 70's nor the 80's, Jesus.
I don't know if things in that context are going to change with this presidential period (honestly, I doubt it) but at least, I can say we are changing or little vision of world. At least we dared to change something.
Certain person told me that, even when we have a female president, she'd base into the known model and that's made by men. So the change wouldn't be that much. What this person does not get is that, politics is just one and you'll always follow the model you think is the best according with your thoughts and that's out of the gender issue. The important thing here is, who represents our country now. Who is THE FACE of this game.
Well, I even took a picture of the President today. I live near the Government Palace so I went there to wave Mrs. Bachelet and take a picture. And I could do it! :)
Honestly, I don't really care about colors here. I don't care if she's socialist and I wouldn't care if she were right-winged. I do only care her FEMALE position.
Do you know how it feels seeing a woman for first time there in the Congress, promising before the Constitution, with that three colors strip? Huh, I felt proud of being Chilean again! I felt proud because my country was able to make a difficult decision, bravely. Because it was difficult. Let's face it.
I barely feel proud of being Chilean, I admit it. The history in our shoulders is bitter, I'd say. I wish I could turn back in time and delete a day in History of Chile's books. Not because the fact itself (I've always thought IT had to be done but not in THAT way), but the pain after all. There is still so much hatred, so much intolerance... People sometimes give their hatred as a legacy. You see kids yelling out for things they don't even understand. Sometimes I think Chile doesn't want to get out of its past. Past is past; we must face it, damn it! We don't have to forget the past but we cannot live forever there, these are not the 70's nor the 80's, Jesus.
I don't know if things in that context are going to change with this presidential period (honestly, I doubt it) but at least, I can say we are changing or little vision of world. At least we dared to change something.
Certain person told me that, even when we have a female president, she'd base into the known model and that's made by men. So the change wouldn't be that much. What this person does not get is that, politics is just one and you'll always follow the model you think is the best according with your thoughts and that's out of the gender issue. The important thing here is, who represents our country now. Who is THE FACE of this game.
Well, I even took a picture of the President today. I live near the Government Palace so I went there to wave Mrs. Bachelet and take a picture. And I could do it! :)
posted by Semi @ 4:41 PM
1 Comments:
At 7:52 PM,
David said…
I don't really believe the face of the game thing, except that maybe all a private citizen can do is choose a face, but instinctively I do almost agree. That's sort of why I'm hoping my country will do the same in 08 (Hillary Clinton)
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