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Important Chilean Traditions

   Humans are responsible for creating the culture around us because our way of thinking and acting, our beliefs, ceremonies, social norms, customs and rituals are part of some expressions of culture.

All these beliefs and cultural expressions are passed down from generation to generation, allowing later generations are aware of these cultural expressions, as well as helping create these very new or modifying existing traditions, it must be said that there many traditions are being lost over the years either because they were transmitted by the previous generation, or because new generations are losing interest in the old traditions.

Continue the most important traditions of a community, town, city or country it means continuing values, religious beliefs, customs, habits, rituals, etc.

Traditions remain on their own over time, because it is people who share and practice constantly to keep them alive in time.

Chilean traditions are based primarily on country life in the Chilean broken, food, music and folklore, as well as for their religious beliefs and the great cultural diversity that we have throughout our country.

Fiestas Patrias, also known by all Chileans how "Dieciocho", originally performed on 18 and 19 September to commemorate the formation is in Chile as an independent state. During these days reborn hundreds of traditions that have disappeared over time as rodeos, Chilean races, hopscotch, greasy pole, lifting kites and playing the spin kick. The dancing and the national music heard these days is the cueca and typical food and drink are usually prepared is the mote con huesillos, empanadas, roasted, chicha, ponche and piscola, etc.

Fiesta de la Tirana is one of the biggest religious festivals throughout Chile. This feast is celebrated on July 16 in Iquique honor of the Virgin of Carmen, during the days of celebration dancing groups like the Chinese, redskins, Antawaras, Gypsies, and Indians etc. They perform dances to the virgin; this is what originally is called diablada.

Some of the rituals and ceremonies performed in the country are originally traditions of the native peoples of Chile and Aymara peoples with a festival called Anata since it is one of the festivals most widespread in the Andean Community, in which he worships father of the farms, another Andean festivities is Q'wancha a ceremony in the fields and pastures of the Aymaras Farmers do. Finally we Floreo or Waynu ceremony, which is held to celebrate the marriage of the animals.

Finally we have the social norms of Chile, which is governed with the aim of establishing how to behave in society.

In Chile there are several rules of behavior or normative systems to which society should be governed. These are:

Catholic religious rule regulates the behavior of individuals from the point of view of the Church, but it is up to each person whether or not abided by this rule.

Moral standard: This standard focuses on the development of human beings, from a perspective of personal property.

Social norm: wants to regulate social action to achieve coexistence as pleasant as possible.

Rule of law: a set of rules aimed at ensuring order and social life of human beings.

From my point of view all these traditions, rituals, religious ceremonies and social norms are crucial because this is what it does if the culture of each country and increasingly enriched.

I think Chile is a country full of traditions that are passed from generation to generation, which can maintain or disappear over time, as well as some aspects be changing due to a change to a more modern old generation.

At the end I must say that these traditions provide great cultural value to the country, as traditions exist in every part of Chile incorporating indigenous cultures and traditions or native peoples that enrich and give more knowledge to the rest of society. Note that traditions are an exchange of culture, knowledge and values in societies around the country.