The release of the Chilean trapped miners is a joy for all of us.But the
comments made by all those consultants-psychologists and other so called
experts on the effects of confinement and post confinement issues were really
driving me up the wall.It is as if those experts pull out all the knowledge
they learn and practiced from their
Eurocentric training and think that they can apply them to the Copper-centric
paradigm of Chile. When those Eurocentric talk about "privacy concerns"
,"reintegration in society",post traumatic stress syndrome" and so on,my
reaction was "gimme a break".
Chilean society and the other countries in the Americas are collectivist
cultures where there are a large network of support.(La familia).American
society is robustly individualistic where there are more challenges and
conflicts in modes of adjustment.As to how to deal with their new found fame
and fortune,Chile's miners are more likely to be generous and help improve
their status and la familia.The only problems they may have to ward off are
those media capitalists whose constant badgering just to make a dollar could
probably be more irritating than what they experienced in the mine.
There is always a danger of being incorrect when we try to apply and impose
a U.S- centric and Eurocentric behavioral model on other cultures where modes
of adjustment can vary.
Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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