OLD COUNTRY, NEW COUNTRY
By: Jorge Nunez (The Telegraph)
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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deny the country is an old sport Ecuador. Many complain of it explicitly, others work with the known frasesita "This !...", country added as a corollary of any appraisal banal. That attitude is part of a lack of love for wealth, which comes to have all the markings of a spiritual disability. In the old
Ecuador complain about everything and this could be a symptom of an old social resistance against the system, has been drifting into a culture of regret, denial and helplessness. Uploaded 
soul aisle in a spirit of weeping, Ecuadorians live yesterday on complaint complaint. If we greet each other with "How are you?", Respond with a sentence of a repertoire disenchanted: "So-so", "Passing, passing," "More or less", "Fucked up but as", "Like when you were poor," "Living for not dying." Few respondents, a little trouble: "Quiet" or "Well, well." And certainly we would be surprised that someone would respond to our polite questions about their personal status, saying, "Nice Life", "satisfied and happy", "More better" or "Happy." many years ago, while studying Portuguese, a beautiful Brazilian teacher taught me that in the polite question "H ow vai voce?" (How are you?), that language had only three possible answers: "Beim" (Well), "Bom" (Good) or "Ótimo" (Best). Then I discovered that it was not a matter only linguistic, but an attitude of life of the Brazilian people, determined to see the good side of things.
But things begin to change between us. Young, bored with the culture of disenchantment, have created new cultural directions, looking for symbols of autoafirmació n. Music, literature, ecology, tourism and new technologies are part of those paths to the future, they pass with joy. Even the anti-bullfighting movement must be seen in the perspective of re-engagement with the country and its nature, to overcome old habits and social evils.
patent is also the return of confidence in the future, and even joy to the faces of the poor and marginalized. Subsidies, grants and state loans are taking a small social welfare to those sectors, is now interested in political participation and begin to grow felt in the production and consumption.
A sign of this change in depth is the renovation of the student population in public universities. Where once raged there Castilian surnames are now mostly indigenous surnames, evidence that the outcast move up the social and gradually take over their country, that previously was hostile and strange. And the free higher education, as enshrined in the Constitution of Ciudad Alfaro, will certainly enhance the nationalization process and liberating.
are encouraging signs of the birth of a new country, fairer, fair and confident. But he still has to face the wailing wall of the old country, which refuses to die and see on every summer and every blackout arrival of doomsday.
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