In Conima, people depend on nature for their livelihood. Here, we work for wages, for money, and so we don t need those beliefs any more. The t inka and the ch alla are like prayers. The strength of those who resist oppression and try to maintain integrity against all odds is a factor in explaining how five centuries of colonialist domination have not completely eradicated linguistic and cultural diversity and creativity among Latin American peoples of indigenous origin. The very cleavages mentioned here have been moulded into spaces in which innovative forms of cultural expression are produced, acting as tools in the fight against total assimilation.
Hybridization is a phenomenon naturally generated at such interfaces.
Pointing out that existence is not very revealing. Even pointing out that it causes errors and misperceptions, though worthwhile, is not very exciting, for these are inevitable. The school is a mixed blessing. As processes of elimination occur throughout the whole of the period spent in education, we can quite justifiably note the effects they have at the highest levels of the system. At the same time, the school is a context for cultural hybridization.