Chile Forum

Hey Admin (and anyone else who might pipe in on this topic) - I really don't mean to "pick" on Chile about the graffitti. Like I said, I really enjoyed my visit - even while in Concepcion, and I don't do well in larger cities. There was certainly graffitti, but in good truth probably not larger volumes than a person might find in any large city, anywhere in the world. What struck me was that most of the graffitti that caught my eye was often on park statues and monuments. A little distracting.

And I have to agree that outside of larger population centers (like Concepcion), in smaller towns the presence of graffitti tended to disappear - folks tend to have particular good pride in their local communities. Coyhaique was a gem! As was Puerto Aisen.

I believe that the graffitti issue in Chile has alot to do with the youth seeing graffitti as an art form... and when shown in international media venues that display it in that way, they feel justified in thier actions and in part feel like they are involved with what is going on in the rest of the world in this way...Chile is so isolated geographicaly that many times you can see a paticular aspect of culture brought in from the outside and it is as if it goes on steroids...graffitti seems to be one of those things to me at least.

Hi all, I was just reading the Valparaiso Times (hope it's OK to post address here) and on the one hand was surprised to see that graffiti is SO prevalent yet not surprised to see it arrived with hip hop. IMO, taggers should have a bounty on their heads, here in Ca we've had our garage door tagged twice. As for gay freedom, they have quite enough already (again IMO).
http://www.valparaisotimes.cl/content/view/96/1/

Voluntarily adotped by your flaites and wanna be flaites.

But what freedom if speech with the anarchist and NAZI symbols I've seen!!