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captainsursea
Joined 2009
Posts: 23

An Open Message to "SUPERPATRIOTA"

13 years ago

Hello Superpatriota,

I, as I'm sure most of the ex-pats in this community, do not like the vitriol you have expounded on a number of occasions through this medium and to our particular e-mails.

I think you need to know that we, of free choice, came to reside in Chile because we really do love the country and its people. We are not flotsam or desperate refugees from, primarily, the United States; neither are we “poor and old farts running away from a cesspool” to quote your contemptuous prose.

Most people who belong to this Chile Expat Community Forum are college educated, many with post graduate degrees, while others are ex-entrepreneurs that were considered either middle, middle-middle or high middle class citizens by USA standards. What we bring to the country is the hard currency we spend here every day from the countries we came from; additionally, we are not a public burden to the Chilean government or its agencies as we have suitable incomes.

As history has shown, countries become enriched by the influx of well-educated people from all over and of different cultures. This influx of people adds to the whole and makes for a dynamic, vibrant nation with varying viewpoints and juxtapositions on most every level.

So, your remarks towards this community are superfluous and without merit.

Many family and friends asked why we chose to retire in Chile having the means and wherewithal to retire in just about any country we please. We reply with a simple statement I used at a formal gathering we once had at the Herradura Club de Yates a while ago:

“The Chilean national treasury is not in the Banco Central in Santiago, but is instead, in the kind hearts of every Chilean man, woman and child you meet on the street across the country.”

Please Superpatriota, don’t blemish the Chilean national character that we have come to respect and love by bitterness and sarcasm.

Captain of the Southern Sea

And in case this may be interpreted erroneously, here it is in Castilian. . . .

Hola Superpatriota,

Yo, como estoy seguro que muchos otros de los “ex-pats” de esta comunidad, no nos gusta la virulencia que has pregonado en varias ocasiones a través de este foro y por vía de nuestros correos electrónicos particulares.

Yo creo que usted necesita saber que como gente con libertad de elección, decidimos residir en Chile porque realmente queremos el país y su gente. Nosotros no somos escoria o refugiados desesperados de, principalmente, los EEUU; tampoco somos gente “pobre o pedos viejos escapándonos de una fosa séptica” según su prosa despectiva.

Mucha de la gente que pertenece a este foro “Chile Expat Community Forum” son gente con educación universitaria, algunos con títulos posgraduados y otros son ex emprendedores que eran clasificados como clase media, media-media y clase media alta según los estándares de EEUU. Lo que nosotros traemos son divisas duras de los países de donde provenimos que gastamos todos los días en este país; consecuentemente, ni somos una carga al gobierno Chileno o a sus dependencias gubernamentales ya que tenemos medios fiscales.

La historia nos ha enseñado que los países se enriquecen cuando hay una entrada de gente bien educada de diferentes partes y culturas. Ese flujo de gente le añade al ambiente total y hace una nación dinámica y vibrante con puntos de vistas y contrapuntos a todos los niveles.

Por lo tanto, sus comentarios hacia esta comunidad son superfluos y sin mérito.

Mucha familia y amigos nos preguntan porque decidimos retirarnos en Chile cuando tenemos los medios y fondos para poder retirarnos en cualquier otro lugar. Nosotros siempre respondemos con una frase que utilicé en el Club de Yates de Herradura hace un tiempo atrás:

“El tesoro nacional Chileno no reside en el Banco Central de Santiago, más bien, está en los buenos corazones que de cada hombre, mujer y niño Chileno que uno conoce en las calles a través del país.”

Por favor Superpatriota, no manches el buen carácter nacional Chileno que hemos llegado a respetar y querer usando la amargura y el sarcasmo.

Capitán del Mar Sureño

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