I repeat my 2 asian friends, who are korean, and obviously they got the whole “Chino” thing. But man they did not get great vibes. Cashiers or bartenders would really only pay attention to me and wouldn’t even care about my friends. They were impressed by my korean-american friends ability to speak great spanish, but in subtle mannerisms did not respect them. How so? Ignorance, and it can really hurt people.

And this second to last post being a black guy in Chile? You know how much racism there is towards black people, it makes me sick. I’m not the one to be talking about this, but it is very sad. Do you know how many fuera negros grafiti signs there are in valpo or in santiago? It is horrible. Here is a sad example, I went to the chile argentina game 15th of october in santiago. (Chile won the game by the way :O ) but there is a half black midfielder playing for Chile, and whenever he messed up with the ball, Chileans would harass him with racial slurs and profanities. I would say just as horrible as in spain where they would do monkey chants to black players (cough: thierry henry of france). But they would hate on this half black guy, using expletives like culia negro, roto, a lot of horrible words.

Where I’m getting at, in Chile its pretty tough if you are black, asian, or just different looking in general. LIke the posts above, Chileans do have a blond haired blue eyed fetish, yes a fetish. They want to be white to say the least, great country with beautiful sites to see, but this is one thing the country needs to work on. I hear in Argentina its just as bad in the outskirts, but not as bad in buenos aires or cordoba.

Jason G.

I think media has to do a lot with this since it brainwash people everyday.