My future job

What is an anthropologist job? People asked me this question since I entered this career and my answer never satisfized them. I only know that I would like to work in something that is related with the public area or I would like to conduct classes in some University. I will never have a job in a private institution, because I would like to use my knowledge to help common and needed people. I think that private companies do not necessarily do this.

On the other hand, respect of my dream job I think it would be working from my house hahaha. I heard of one anthropologist that have a job mainly of theoretical research and have a few fieldwork. Anyway what I would like to do work on something related to publics policy, enhance in the progression and integration for some rural or urban areas… in general in local development levels. It is not important if it outdoor or indoor job, or with a fieldwork or not. Finally I would enjoy  to do some classes. The subjects that more important for my project I think that were public policy, rural anthropology, qualitative methodology, culture in Chile and ethnography. 

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.

Summer 2014 Vacations

Last summer, I traveled to Talcahuano by bus to visit my grandmother and my family. My whole family lived in big Concepcion, even my brothers borned there, but I was bron in Santiago. My parents are divorced and I live with my mom, that is one reason why I have lost contact with my father's family. So when I travel I visit my grandmother and cousins for the part of my mother. I was there for like a week, I stayed five days with my grandmother, one day with a cousin that is also a friend of mine, and the other day I spent it with my uncle. When I was at grandmother we shared together, we walked through the city during the day, and in the nights we saw the news on the TV and play cards. She is very funny and we really get along. The thing that I like the most when I go ther is to visit the port, swinming in the ocean, walk on the beach, but almost all the time it is too cold to swim, because chilean coasts are pretty freezing.

Why anthropology?

Well in the first place I must confess that I choosed study anthropology because my brother everytime told me about this carreer. He studied laws in the University La República and after the bankruptcy of this Universitiy his finished the career in University La Central, but the area and courses of social anthropology were the most intersting according to him. My brother told me about the indian studies and the importance of the multiculturalism, together with the filosofic bases of this discipline.

When I started to find more information about the social anthropology in the school, I compared this option with others careers such as laws or history, but finally I decided for the reason of that I wanted understand the various forms of relationship of the people on different contexts, even in our society, not only in the indigenous society. I think that with this and the understand of why operates the culture could be a factor for progress towards a better society. On the other hand I saw that laws and history have a vision more superficial of the humans proccess and their focus in the description and memorise instead of the understanding.