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Furthermore, I wish tomanifest here todaymy admiration for Hispanic culture and to acknowledge
my debt to it, that same culture I have experienced in Spain and in many Spanish-speaking
countries of Latin America, in which I have lived many years of my life: mostly in Chile, but also in
Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic and —with great
intensity in the last decade— Colombia and Mexico. I would like to make a very special mention
of the heartfelt bonds I have with the University of Chile, Mexico’s unam and the Ibero-American
University of Puebla.
I identify strongly with the entire Latin world: Italy, Spain and Spanish-speaking Latin America,
Portugal and Brazil, without forgetting, of course, France. What best characterizes the Latin world
for me is the lack of permanent, solid correspondence between its citizens and its institutions.
France and the French, Spain and the Spaniards, Italy and the Italians… have never been the two
sides of the same coin. The relationship all of us have always had with the country we are citizens
of seems to be more one of love —with its passions and its conflicts— than one of professional or
philosophical identification.
Alain Touraine
—
Prince of Asturias Award
for Communication and
Humanities
2010
Excerpt from the speech given on the
occasion of receiving the Prince of
Asturias Award for Communication
and Humanities on 22/10/2010.
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