Don Quixote and Sancho. The eternal couple of differences: particularly historical idealism, practicality, literary culture, oral tradition, the eternal dichotomy of literature. All these comparisons have been studied for years excelling Cervantes scholars, who from all perspectives, analyze the personalities and the atoms that make up the two. However, yesterday, while reading an article related to the economic situation English in the days of Don Quixote and Sancho's salary drama, I came to my mind a curious connection. We all know our dear Sancho. Sancho the pragmatic, the dispenser of proverbs, the preferred 100 ducats on an illusory island, Sancho simple worker and, finally, a character vastly opposed to the old Don Quixote. Sancho apprehends as wealth flows and how the system works. Sancho is quick, like a good farmer, to identify what is really important for him to accumulate wealth, hunting his daughter to an earl, and earn the much-promised island.
With this in mind I came Profile at the forefront of connecting Sancho with a set of particles and trace very American. Conscious and conditioned separation between my environment-Protestant, Anglo-speaking and mainly a southern-American and me hit by a permanent and pervading cultural Catholicism, but small-town upbringing and large farm (in short, carrier a series of knowledge and ignorance very different from those of my fellow Americans).
course, not only my person adapts to this comparison, maybe this imaginary activity may comprise the whole Latino or Latin American. The citizen walk from any English-speaking city. Taking this starting point, Sancho has long been the quintessential American, simple, without major appearances and an air of royalty (as opposed to us). Sancho is practical, with both feet on the ground and ready to get juice to any adventure, much like our American neighbors as a result of its methodology Protestant, becomes obsessed with the important things and major practical reality. While Don Quixote dreams of someday being able to pet Dulcinea, to slay giants and righting wrongs (undo injustices), while he lives in his world of fantasies and phantoms (a quasi-Macondo Iberian unfolds in your head), the wily Squire continues to entertain in his mind as long-awaited rule the island, of course ignoring the outset that it is an island!
Sancho makes calculations and projected earnings with the blessed balm fever (depending on the sad figure, is as magic as a powerful healing when knights-errant). Here I come to mind these insatiable and endless counters between figures and calculations that predict and prevent future tragedies. I see them almost every day behind their desks, while counting on presuesto of my university. Don Quijote far his side, and more like that storyteller and "artist" of those that abound in our country plunges into long monologues, enjoy the description of his Dulcinea, and generally live in a much more artistic, but also, more cumbersome and difficult to maneuver. Don Quixote, as Latin America has been unable to distinguish reality from fantasy Macondos region are numerous and where the prospect of capital is so different from the perspective of the province. Through two separate dreams, believe we live in palaces and not humble sales, we believe we are descendants of illustrious and pure gentlemen and no mixing. We believe that we read and learned, especially when we compare with the "gringos" and accuse of ignorance and provincialism. In fact we are more gullible than we think. We find it very easy to point and point others' mistakes. Easier than it should. And as we look over his shoulder to Sancho and his vile behavior, it surprises us with his spirit of capitalism and its simple nature. Sancho, though no king or emperor was for many days, represents the triumph of the pragmatic over the ideal, the triumph of simplicity and efficiency on the verbiage and the rhetoric of Don Quixote Campanula. Sancho, from north of the Rio Grande, quietly watching us to Don Quixote and all of us, their descendants.
