Chile Forum

Forgot to add, yes I cook at home and mainly eat Chilean fare but I have gotten into fusion cooking using my year's stock of sesame seed oil, oyster sauce, Japanese soy sauce, etc. to modify or add more flavor to Chilean dishes and to stir fry using the great fresh Chilean local produce.

Cohabitation is quite common and accepted in Chile. Remember this is a land that once had no divorce. People had to go on living their lives and cohabitation just became the way things are.

LOL maybe Chile is starting to become more like Japan in terms of female liberation after WWII

Asean, it's almot 5:30am here. I'm going to sleep. I'll talk to you later.

Salud

Adios euu. have a good kabuki dream!

eeuunikkeiexpat wrote:I predict the children of the initial Korean immigration wave will end up intermarrying with Chileans (already happening) so I don't see an insular comuna Korea-town developing.

One story I heard for the Korean immigration was that the original thinking of the immigrants was if you can't immigrate directly into the USA, then go to Chile first and then try from there. Can't confirm that story, wish there were more ethnic Asians in Chile participating on this forum.

Well as someone who lived in Korea and is witnessing the Korean diaspora in the Philippines, there is a lack of real opportunities to get ahead other than as an employee in Korea. Making it in life there is to have a salary job and an apartment in a huge drab concrete building.

Because of the nationalistic nature of Korea, they take Korea with them wherever they go. They prefer Koreans and are very insular. They probably won't intermarry and will stay in their own community.

I beg to differ, if the japanese in brazil able to integrate and marry gaijins given their xenophobic culture, I don't see why the koreans cannot..and the japanese are way more clannish than the koreans

The Chinese were here the longest, there is no Chinatown.

Most of the first wave of Japanese began coming in the first half of the 20th century, there is no Japantown, only a community center in Las Condes run by the richest of them in typical Chilean economic class hierarchy.

The Koreans have been here two decades, no Koreatown yet.

I am knowledeable on the Japanese immigration to the Americas - USA, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Chile and what strikes me the most about the Chilean Japanese immigration (the smallest and most recent of the Japanese Latin/South America immigrations) as compared to the rest of Latin/South America is how fast they blended into the general native population.

Something 'bout Chile ...

"Beats me guess it's better to assimilate " not that forming chinatowns and little Italys u don;t
Just that the impression given Chile migrants are not as culturally rooted compared to American migrants which may not be a bad thing in the long run

As far as I know, there is not any class of especifict race in Chile, most of the emigration fron different countries became mixes. If you go to the south of Chile how many Germans do you see (mean as a race), probably none, a lot of people with last names and some features but nothig else. Must be something on the air. Or it is part of the culture, todos contra todas

May be the Palestine community it is one that is still not mixed, I do not know.

I have met second and third generation chileno japones products of mixed marriages who look 100% chileno. They have the name but pass as everyday chilenos. They admit they use their (Japanese) name to gain advantage in the competitive job market.

I do have a coworker (chileno) last name Calvio I know his parents and they look like normal Chilenos, However everytime that I work with him in the Chineses Hospital people speak Chineses to him. He does not know about Asian blood in his family but he look like a 1.90 mt Chinese men.

Death toll rises to 10,000 in the earthquake from china, please send a prayers to the dead there...
Our world seems to suffer from natural calamities since the Tsunami hits us...

Asean wrote:I beg to differ, if the japanese in brazil able to integrate and marry gaijins given their xenophobic culture, I don't see why the koreans cannot..and the japanese are way more clannish than the koreans

You and I may not be able to see why Koreans can not, but Koreans can't. Koreans are by far the most xenophobic phobic nationality on the face of the planet. Koreans do business primarily with other Koreans and use Korean brands. When they travel, they eat Korean food, stay in Korean owned hotels and take tours owned by Korean companies.

Just the other day, I saw the househelp of a Korean family being abused in the parking lot of a supermarket. The locals hate them. They come to their country, they abuse them, they flout the laws and they treats the locals as second class citizens.

Don't get me started or I will start talking about Hanjin, the worst company in the world. If anyone cares about the environment, they will keep Korean companies far away.

I was eating lunch in the Moneda de Oro restaurant in Valaraiso last week and a family walked in, the woman was a Chileana her husband was Korean and they had two boys, about 8 and 6 years old, both in school uniforms. Interesting to see half Korean kids speaking Spanish.