Cultural Shock

A principle of respect and tolerance is accepting the multiculturalism and the existence of many cultures between diferents humans groups, even inside of same country or the same society. Even in Chile there are many different cultures and not only indigenous people because also are difference between regions, rural or urban areas, high or low social classes, etc. Thus becomes extremely difficult to delineate where end one culture and another begins. I think that in many cases of our occidental world is corresponds talk about a culture with different subcultures.

I think that most Chileans; without those who live in extreme areas or have and indigenous cultural descendants, have common cultural elements that we can identify beyond of the various subcultures that are expressed. I don't daring to speak of chilean culture or identy, because is methodologically can't cover, if I think that we have common elements. Just this duality makes them among chileans have a common cultural base, but still  culture shock can result because some cultural views are mutually unintelligible. A simple case of this occurs in the dialects or some words, for example my family is from the South and say ''patinas'' to the ''Hawaianas'' or ''Chalas'' and this term in Santiago nobody understand.