Identity Guatemala
IDENTITY GUATEMALA
By Darío Morán
Guatemala as a country and as a nation should be thought as a rainbow of uncountable colors due to its too many riches, riches, which unfortunately not all guatemalans have acquainted and known very well.
Our history, is a history of a nation which had to be conquered, to be found even though this became destruction of peoples and nature : natures has been harmed since a long time ago, I say sometimes that progress means damage.
I believe the interaction between people from other regions like the conquistadors, and local people : our ancestors; formed our nationality, one, that we can not separate from the mixing of races because otherwise we ought to be against time and time is life.
We are still taking the best of all cultures which have been interacting in our behaviour as people of Guatemala.
Besides this to speak of a Guatemaya and a Guatemala separates but in a kind of racial division and racial divisions stop armony and peace between peoples and people.
Folklore is a term that we still can not understand, we confuse folklore with real traditions, but, ¿ Are there real and genuine traditions in countries now?
I Do not think so, because the interction of events linked with art and culture, changes that progress bring, fashion, intracultural effects, transculture trip going and coming back and other social phenomenae affect and changes.
I ask myself if we could separate the folkloric colors with which we paint our own culture and live our traditions and then how would our traditions look : pale.
So we need a mix of everything, unless we start a profound study of our culture and art and then try to recreate events, facts, costumes, dances and festivities on stages already furnished with elements of past epochs and behaviours, well I am trying to do so thru my investigatins and studies when I write the scripts for our ethnic dances with the group Nán Nikte´Guatemala and thru other proposals we have been submitted but not enough heard.
Traditions are rich but we have to make them richer showing all the people in and ouside our country.
Traditions are the landscapes painted with the essence of colors we had inside tiny gourds before and other colors other brought by ship to us, and when the both painters : from here and there started to paint dropped some drops, we picked them up and started to paint our own portrait of our nationality which formed then our colorful identity.
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