Chile Art / Culture Profile 2012

Chile culture is the reminder of the variety that marks the South American culture in general. The culture of Chile has been influenced by several other foreign elements and nations. But part other South American nations, Chile culture may be said to be the store home of native culture that has a very rich history and tradition of its own.

Chile culture is marked by the very famous Inca culture and other Araucanian cultures like the Mapuche culture. While the Inca culture developed in the northern and in the middle part of this country, in the central and southern part of Chile other native cultures made their point of origin and developments. But not only these native cultures, Chile culture is the combination of the European culture that was brought by the colonizers and the slaves of the African origin during the slave trading.

The cultural diversity that is visible in Chile culture reflects in several forms of its cultural aspects and life. Music, theater, dance, cuisine, literature and in amount other forms of life and culture, Chile bears the marks of its cultural diversity inclunding distinctiveness. The richness of the art and cultural aspect of Chile life is the result of the activities of its highly intellectual people. There have been a lot of intellectual people in Chile who were educated in Paris and brought with them in this country their learning and made it richer. Chile literature, which is an significant part of their culture, is very rich. Chile in fact, is called the land of poets and the country actually can boast of a lot of eminent literary personalities like, Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral and a lot of additional.