Re:This is not so simple... (Score 1)

Oh but they ARE taking it with the Chilean government too. Like I said, there are ongoing discussions with the governments about all the topics concerning them, like this case, the protection of their territories and culture, their adaption to the rest of the country, etc.

I'm sure that the fact that Microsoft is in between made the situation more "interesting" for some of them, but I'm sure that had it been another, smaller, company they STILL would have taken it against the education ministry. They will continue defending themselves for as long as they believe they have a reason to.

I'm not saying that the situation isn't ridiculous. In fact, I believe that too. This time they are taking their defensive stance against the rest of the world to the extreme, but that is how they have always been. As someone who has grown up watching on the news the Mapuche people fighting for whatever concerned them at the moment, for me it's natural, even obvious, that they'd react this way.

Intellectually-bankrupt? What, Chile? Of all the problems there are in the country, lacking culture as much as you imply isn't one of them, believe me.