They are nameless, something that also happened throughout our history, in which indigenous people and African-Americans lost their personal identity The generic replaced the individual, and therein lie the seeds of the tragedy—the tragedy of a people who are mainly mestizo, mainly mulatto, and yet they perceived what is indigenous and black as a defect and an insult. the pride of being indigenous and the pride of being African is, I believe, beginning to take hold, because a lot of what is best in Colombia stems from that rich ethnic mix. And someday, in our own version of the old cultural joke we'll be able to say that a Colombian is someone who thinks like a European, speaks like an indigenous person, and dances like an African. Regarding the current situation in the country, Ospina has this to say:
Они безымянны, такое отношение можно наблюдать на протяжении всей нашей истории, в которой коренное население и афроамериканцы были лишены индивидуальности Такой обобщённый подход вытеснил индивидуума, и именно в этом лежит причина трагедии — трагедии людей, главным образом метисов и мулатов, которые до сих пор воспринимают свою генетическую связь с индейцами или чёрными как некий постыдный дефект.