Date: Saturday, October 27, 2007 9:18:09 PM

Being bicultural is a good thing, she started in answering to CBC radio in a "proudly" tune, aired from Toronto office broadcasting center where 300 new citizens from 90 countries sworn in last Friday.

Claude, a Chilean origin author was asked to 'advise' the attendants for their citizenship from her experience gone by as an new-comer  30 years ago. She said "experience is all different, ...but being bicultural is proud thing", one does not have to give up his own language, the traditions and roots, she continued; living abroad offers opportunities of adding new value which "Vibrates" with your experience at home, "you don’t have to give up but just add to it" she says.

When she was mentioning that some Chileans choose to 'return' for not been well adapted to the new life here in Canada, a major and interesting question then followed by CBC radio: "how do you sense the difference of being as a Chilean back home and outside Chilly?" “what is your experience to straddle two positions?” Time changes everything, it changes a country too. "we should remember the past but we also have to look into the future" Claude returns in her way.

“What do you mean 'remember the past" was then asked, again from CBC radio. Country might change but history doest not, however, 'young people now don't feel it'; Next, she turned to her book as an example, her book is very much read by many, quite number of readers are young, they feel hard to envision my 'invented country'; she follows that they don't see the past, "they don't want to be responsible for it,” and "they don’t want to live with the grudges of the past"; she observed: that’s why some people were not true when she met them, she said.

But she pointed out by giving an example: an American woman, yet found the answers and keys from reading the book “my invented country” - Chile, in which she had been teaching English, for at beginning, she was stressed out for there was no 'rules, codes, and clues, and so difficult for her to "fit-in"; after that, Claude was recalling her wit: “it’s my fiction only,” laughing, and drew the talk to an end, “I don’t want to put burdens on my shoulders”

 End in 406 words, by Johnlakeshore

   
johnlakeshore Nov. 2007
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