Acoustic guitar is very popular in Chile. Most locals can play it, and often guitar music is performed during family holidays. Chileans are very patriotic and proud of their famous countrymen. The most famous Chilean author is the poet Pablo Neruda who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973. Books of Isabel Allende, the winner of Chile's National Literature Prize, are translated into more than 20 languages.
In Chile, there is a growing gap between social classes. The upper classes are educated people concentrating resources of Chile in their hands, mostly descendants of those who immigrated to Chile in the 19th-20th centuries. Their children attend private schools and universities. The middle class includes business people engaged in medium and small enterprises, artists, and others. They also consider education important, being open and friendly to representatives of other classes. This group consists mainly of descendants of immigrants from Italy, Spain, and Arab countries. The lowest class - farmers and workers - is less educated. Women are either housewives or serve in the homes of upper-class families. Most of them are descendants of indigenous peoples, as well as Spaniards who arrived in Chile in the 15-18 centuries. Outside big cities, this gap is more conspicuous.
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