Living away from where you grew up and the environment that has shaped the way we face and watch the world, is an experience over time is much richer that painful. In most cases, the sadness of the first months or years to be away from the "yours" seems to make the experience of living in another culture and see the world from another point of view. Over time you realize that slowly people considered "other" have become part of "yours", also on a personal level, without really knowing why, you begin to feel less strange, and even more adapted to the new culture. That's when the fact of living miles away from your nest, is slowly reversed. From the sadness of the distance, spend the wealth that means seeing your country, to "own" and yourself from a distance. to your identity you've added a new category of immigrant. For those who emigrated seeking a new life and chasing dreams, there are special events that go beyond what is learned in your childhood. 're kind of rituals by which we return to our roots to reaffirm our identity despite the distance and time.
At this time, at least for the vast majority of Latin Americans I know, we like to relive the Christmas that we lived in our home countries, we want to pray the novena, so be it little or big believer ", singing carols, wait Baby Jesus arrives. A week later, we're hoping the new year listening to the radio at full volume waiting to sing "there are five pa 'twelve-year is going to end, and then amid hugs and omens, to wish a happy new year, while for enter and leave the door neighbors, close friends and distant and even many strangers looking in different voices and drunkenness, happy new year. That's how I remember Christmas in Colombia.
As you can imagine, these habits can be aggressive noisy for those who never lived and who his way to celebrate the new year, for example, the bells around the television transmitting and not around a computer sound, and then continue the party at the table and not on the dance floor. Two such different ways that I find them impossible to compare, it would be like comparing the sun and moon, may have many things in common, but are so different that one can not put them in the same boat.
is for this that I think it was difficult to tell an immigrant who has entire year learning a new language, trying to transform their customs, traditions and beliefs, which at this time, when most needed is to reaffirm their identity, saying that these parties held no annoying as they are cultural patterns of the earth that receives . But be very careful, I'm not saying it for the sake of integration and tolerance should be permitted to all the immigrants to retain its identity. By contrast, I also make the claim as an immigrant to understand this difference. That is, on one hand claim to the "native" to try to prevent the immigrants remove their traditions and rituals without first making an effort to understand, and, on the other hand, I I demand as an immigrant to understand that Joe Arroyo at full volume between 3 and 5 am, to put the simplest example, does not always mean happiness, but insomnia may also represent for the people who are not accustomed.
In this game to learn to live together, I think it may be convenient that I've ever heard in relation to how complicated it can be coexistence: "never forget that you marry the partner defects, then with its qualities, either marry ". Ultimately what I mean is that in this integration process can not pretend that all they see and tolerate, are the qualities the other (labor, free healthcare ...), but we understand that this is a marriage (unexpected, but necessary for both parties) between natives and newcomers and is not a summer adventure. It is a marriage for many years and if we do not want to see us face every now and then before a judge to teach us to live together, must learn to walk with other people's shoes.
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