translated from Spanish: Carlos Peña warning posfallo the Hague: “There was some childishness in the flags of the coin scene”

the rector of the University Diego Portales (UDP), Carlos Peña, analyzed the reaction of Chile after the favorable ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague, which ruled not obligation to negotiate with Bolivia an outlet to the Pacific Ocean. 
In an interview with La Tercera, Peña said that a thing is to celebrate and another open the door that appears a nationalist impulse. In his view, there was some childishness in the scene of flags in La Moneda. 
“To warn the infantilism that I mentioned, just stop at the attitude of President Piñera against Trump, using the same flag waving now proudly. President to grace with Trump made jokes with the same flag that now waged proud, proving that the presidential joy is really a joy narcissistic, a joy for yourself,”warned the also a columnist for El Mercurio. 
Read also the second wind given to him by the ruling of the Hague to Piñera and the risk of overdrawing Pena said that it is understandable to celebrate, but says that “no leave emotional containment that until now had been taken. It should not be shed as fast of sobriety. “The trials ritualizan and sublimated side emotional conflict – that is their social function – and we must avoid that dimension to surface when the trials end up”. 
The failure of the Hague emerged a sense of nationalism that was experienced not only in Government but also in the population, something that Carlos Peña ensures tends to be dangerous. “Nationalism often stimulate the most irrational instincts of people, such as identification with a mythical past and the allocation of almost magical powers to the symbols. Is preferable to the more rational universalism of citizens proud of their institutions, which the nationalism as simple irrational appeals to a collective identity or the embrace of symbols that appeal to that fund drives have all human groups ” He said. 
Columnist even dares to say that this almost always exacerbated nationalism just contempt for the stranger, or a “paternalistic treatment of the immigrant”. “In both cases, infantilizado nationalism seen in social networks (this nationalism that wields an idea essentialist we, as if the Chileans share something secret, symbolic, that is soon threatened by the Hague) has just” denying the equality of the other”. 
In its analysis, also compared nationalism with the behavior of the bars, “only in the latter case and most of the times, achieved sublimate instincts that otherwise would be, I guess, more aggressive”. 
Carlos Peña concluded by pointing out that there is a disregard for the indigenous and a denial of the majority of Chileans of mixed status. “Laughing at the way to read Spanish Evo Morales, or the physical appearance, speaks of the irrationality of drives background that I have mentioned and in such episodes tends to emerge (…)” We must rejoice in the outcome of the Hague but not giving permission to disregard other or set aside the emotional sobriety”. 

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