"El santiaguino le tiene pavor al frío, a la lluvia y al viento, que en esta ciudad suelen darse de forma mesurada. […] Para el capitalino, salir a la calle es abandonarse a la intemperie […]. La oscuridad invernal atemoriza, repliega y encierra, como si Santiago fuera Estocolmo y como si ese frío ocasional que baja de la cordillera se escribiera con la misma “f” con la que se escribe “fome”, quizá el más representativo de los chilenismos, que describe también la fama que tiene Santiago en muchos países vecines. Una capital de habitantes entumidos y quejicas […]"
"This myth that early risers are good people and that late risers are lazy has its reasons and merits in rural societies but becomes questionable in a modern 24/7 society. The old moral is so prevalent, however, that it still dominates our beliefs, even in modern times. The postman doesn’t think for a second that the young man might have worked until the early morning hours because he is a night-shift worker or for other reasons. He labels healthy young people who sleep into the day as lazy — as long sleepers. This attitude is reflected in the frequent use of the word-pair early birds and long sleepers [in the media]. (…) Unlike what happens in real jet lag, people who suffer from social jet lag never leave their home base and can therefore never adjust to a new light-dark environment … While real jet lag is acute and transient, social jet lag is chronic. The amount of social jet lag that an individual is exposed to can be quantified as the difference between midsleep on free days and midsleep on work days … Over 40 percent of the Central European population suffers from social jet lag of two hours or more, and the internal time of over 15 percent is three hours or more out of synch with external time. There is no reason to assume that this would be different in other industrialized nations."
Manuel Tuma Casis, vendedor del centro de Santiago, por juansdominguez.